Chiropractic
Your Local Chiroptractor in Burwood
Overview of Chiropractic Services
Chiropractic is a health care discipline based on the scientific premise that the body is a self-regulating, self-healing organism. These important functions are controlled by the brain, spinal cord and all the nerves of the body. At Burwood Back Pain, we are proud to offer comprehensive chiropractic services tailored to your needs.
Chiropractic services focus on the relationship between structure (primarily the spine and pelvis) and function (as coordinated by the nervous system) and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health. The skull protects the delicate tissues of the brain. The moving bones of the spine protect the intricate communication pathways of the spinal cord and nerve roots. If these nervous system pathways are impaired, malfunction of the tissue and organ function throughout the body can result.
Chiropractic also places an emphasis on nutrition and exercise, wellness and healthy lifestyle modifications. It works by helping to restore your own inborn ability to be healthy. When under the proper control of your nervous system, all the cells, tissue and organs of your body are designed to function well and resist disease and ill health. The chiropractic approach to better health is to locate and help reduce interferences to your natural state of being healthy.
If you're searching for a chiropractor in Burwood, don't hesitate to call us today. You can reach us on
(02) 9744 7693. We also provide
physiotherapy,
massage treatments and
Pilates sessions.
How Our Chiropractic Services Work
The chiropractic process works by helping to restore your own inborn ability to be healthy. When under the proper control of your nervous system, all the cells, tissue and organs of your body are designed to function well and resist disease and ill health. The chiropractic approach to better health is to locate and help reduce interferences to your natural state of being healthy.
We are not limited to back pain injuries. Our chiropractors are musculoskeletal specialists and can treat all parts of the body including pain and injuries on the knees, shoulders, ankles, wrists, pelvis and TMJ (jaw), as well as headaches, migraines and sciatica.
Compassionate Services Tailored to Your Needs
Our chiropractors take the time to listen to you and take a thorough history, assess and locate the cause of the injury/pain and provide therapy to help improve and correct the condition. We use a range of techniques including diversified, Gonstead, TPT, SOT, activator as well as soft tissue release, stretches, cupping, dry needling and electro-therapies.
We also work collaboratively with our in-house massage therapists and physiotherapist, striving at all times to create the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Our chiropractors also handle:
- Work cover claims
- Third party claims (motor accidents)
- Pre employment medicals
- Bulk billed services (must have GP EPC referral)
X-Ray Services
Our chiropractors often utilise X-ray studies. Based on the nature of your condition as well as a number of other factors, X-ray studies of your spine or injured body part may be indicated.
Doctors of chiropractic receive over 300 hours of X-ray studies in university prior to graduating and thus are fully trained to take radiographs and identify subtle abnormalities of the spine (as well as more serious pathologies).
X-Rays are Safe and Provide Valuable Information
X-rays are a relatively safe and cost-effective way to view the structure and general condition of the spine. They can reveal spinal regions under high stress and expose areas of degenerative change. This can often provide essential additional information which correlates history and examination findings, allowing for a more accurate spinal analysis and a more individualised and effective treatment plan. X-rays are also useful in assessing the appropriateness of chiropractic care as they can help to rule out the existence of more serious pathological processes such as spinal fractures, tumours and infections, which require immediate emergency medical intervention.
Procedures Used To Minimise Exposure
While prolonged exposure to radiation can be potentially harmful to the human body, the diagnostic X-rays utilised by the chiropractic doctor pose a minimal health risk. In fact, according to radiation guidelines for diagnostic X-ray studies, it would take more than 300 full spine X-rays performed by a chiropractor for these guidelines to be met. In addition, the following steps are used to further reduce the amount of X-ray exposure:
- Only necessary X-ray views will be taken eliminating unnecessary X-ray exposure.
- Shielding & filtration to block or reduce the X-ray beam from affecting sensitive tissues and areas of nondiagnostic interest.
- Rare earth (intensifying) screens can cut X-ray exposure by 50 percent.
- Collimation to narrow the X-ray beam to include areas of interest only.
- Grids to reduce scatter radiation and improve X-ray quality.
- High speed film lowers exposure time by up to 1/12th compared to “hospital” X-rays.
- Increasing kilovoltage and minimising milliamperage further reduces X-ray dosage.
- Minimal exposure times of just 100ths of a second.
- Regular changing of processor chemicals to give high-quality, diagnostic films.
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