Chiropractic care

Chiropractic is a gentle, natural and drug-free primary healthcare profession focused on your health and wellbeing. It involves the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders of the spine, nerves, joints, and muscles.

Your nervous system maps your body according to input from your brain, organs, skeletal and muscular systems in addition to your physical and emotional experience of the outside world. It uses this map to evaluate how you are, and to predict what you need or want. If the map gets distorted, symptoms can be produced, either from the nervous system itself or from altered control of your body's systems or movements. Chiropractic tries to restore the map by stimulating nervous responses from the manipulated areas, and efficacy is judged by how well you move and feel afterwards.

Chiropractic care can help with:

• back pain;

• neck pain;

• shoulder and arm pain;

• hip, leg and sciatic pain;

• cervicogenic headaches;

• other joint pain.

During a treatment I will use my hands to locate areas of tension and restriction, and to manipulate or adjust these areas as necessary. Adjustment is usually painless, although if there is inflammation in an area it might hurt briefly.

The majority of problems are resolved within two to six chiropractic treatments, which can be received once or twice per week. Some people take longer to respond than others, and I will do everything I can to aid you on the road to recovery. I often use chiropractic in conjunction with soft tissue manipulation which can dramatically speed up the healing process.

To find out if chiropractic is right for you, book in for a free online chat. This is a complimentary, no-obligation consultation where we can discuss the issue to determine if I can help you.

Emotional Freedom Technique and Matrix Reimprinting

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a simple strategy used to help process and clear unresolved emotions. It can be used for stress management, symptom relief, changing habits, resolving past trauma, or self-development.

It involves focussing on an issue, emotion or symptom and tapping on the meridian points used in traditional acupuncture until a shift in the emotions or symptoms is experienced. The technique is easy to learn and use at home once you have mastered the basics.

Matrix Reimprinting uses EFT to resolve past traumas and change the beliefs that were created in that moment of trauma. In some cases the trauma may be severe, such as the death of a loved one, abuse or assault. In others, the trauma may be milder but still distressing, such as being lost in a supermarket at a very young age.

Whatever the trauma, a part of our subconscious remains frozen in that moment of the perceived threat to our survival. This is why we can look back at these events and often re-experience the emotions we felt at the time, find that similar environments trigger a recurrence of painful emotions.

Using Matrix Reimprinting and EFT, we can re-visit these subconscious echoes of ourselves without re-experiencing the trauma, and help to process the emotions and remove the trauma associated with the memory.

I have helped clients with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, stress, giving up smoking and resolving or reducing long-term physical pain. To find out more, please get in touch or book in for a free fifteen-minute assessment.