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Tennis Injuries & How We Can Help!

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Suffering From Tennis Elbow?

Majority of tennis injuries are due to overuse of a muscle or joint and the rest are due to traumatic type injuries such as sudden twisting or turning of the knee joints, wrists or shoulders!

Below are some common types of tennis injuries and how our practitioners at The Melbourne Chiropractor can help treat them!

Tennis Elbow

Tennis Elbow is a form of overuse injury that causes extension of the elbow. The forces from hitting a tennis ball causes this type of impact continuously throughout a game of tennis and therefore is the most likely cause of injury whilst playing!

Symptoms of Tennis Elbow

Pain and tender elbow joint that may cause pain when lifting, clenching the fist tight or straightening the arm into an extended position. Swelling may also be present depending on the severity of the injury.

How To Prevent Tennis Elbow

Easiest way to avoid Tennis Elbow is to strengthen the surrounding muscles using either a stress ball or gripper. Other ways are to stretch the muscles in the forearm and triceps area to ensure they do not tighten up to the point they start causing pain!

Treatment For Tennis Elbow

Stretching can help although our chiropractors can help decrease tension within the area by using soft tissue therapy and trigger point therapy to help alleviate the stiffness within the area. Our chiropractors can also use dry needling and mobilise the joints within the area that are not moving adequately!

Subacromial Pain Syndrome

Common shoulder injury or concern that is due to overuse or weak musculature within the area. Usually muscles become irritated and cause inflammation within the joint causing clicking sounds and an inability to lift the arm up above the shoulder.

Symptoms of Subacromial Pain Syndrome

Can be soreness and possible swelling depending on the extent of the injury. Usually clicking can be heard when raising the arm and can be painful on movement.

How To Prevent Subacromial Pain Syndrome

Strengthening the surrounding muscles of the deltoid using bands to begin with is a great way to get started. Stretching and warming up the upper body before training or competing is always a great way to prevent injury.

Treatment For Subacromial Pain Syndrome

Chiropractic Care involves dry needling, soft tissue therapy, mobilisations and other forms of adjustments in surrounding regions to help free up the area and decrease inflammation within the shoulder joint.

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Subacromial Pain Syndrome / Shoulder Pain

Muscle Strains

Common Injury that can occur to anyone who plays a sport. Common reason can be the lack of stretching or poor conditioning.

Symptoms Of Muscle Strains

  • Muscle Stiffness
  • Bruising or Swelling
  • Weakness and Pain

How To Prevent Muscle Strains

A warm up is always a great way of combatting such an injury. Stretching throughout the weak and ensuring that correct posture is being used throughout daily life can help prevent strains from occurring.

Treatment For Muscle Strains

Ice or Heat is great for as soon as the injury occurs. Compression of the strained muscle can also help sooth the area. Elevation is also a good way to reduce swelling depending on the severity of the injury.

Our team of Chiropractors are able to help stretch, mobilise and adjust areas of concern. Pelvic instability can be an issue in most athletes and therefore would be something to look more into. As for postural issues everything plays a part in bodily movement which means there can be other factors which may be playing a part.

*Note: If you are someone who is looking for help or wants to find out more about our services don’t hesitate to reach out to our team of practitioners! Online bookings are available online and we are available 7 days a week at our Broadmeadows, Westmeadows and Fawkner Chiropractic Clinics!

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Fawkner Chiropractic Clinic Opening August!

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TMC Fawkner Chiropractic Clinic

The Melbourne Chiropractor Fawkner provides specialised therapeutic techniques to help with all types of musculoskeletal problems. Our team of chiropractors strives to decrease pain, increase function and create solutions to your problems which will be long term. Our team strives to get patients back on their feet as quick as possible with ongoing support if it is essential.

Our Fawkner, Westmeadows and Broadmeadows clinics offer chiropractic services which also include modalities such as dry needling, cupping, sports taping, trigger point therapy, Stretching and exercise prescription.

Our Fawkner chiropractic practice also accepts referrals from GP’s for chiropractic services. If you are given a CDM or EPC plan you are eligible for up to 5 chiropractic visits per year!

What Can Chiropractic Help With?

Our Fawkner, Westmeadows Chiropractors and Broadmeadows Chiropractors can help you with various conditions including:

What Can You Expect On Your First Visit To Our Clinic?

First Visit or First Treatment at either of our Fawkner, Westmeadows or Broadmeadows health clinics includes a case history, posture scan, movement analysis, pain assessment, orthopaedic testing and a full body treatment.
Referral for X-ray imaging (if required) is bulk-billed through Medicare.

Our Fawkner Clinic

Our Fawkner Clinic is spacious and easily accessible by car and bus. Onsite Parking is available and is within 10km of Melbourne CBD

Located on 1/58 Lynch Rd Fawkner

What Can Our Team Do To Help?

Depending on the severity of the injury or area of concern our practitioners in our Broadmeadows, Westmeadows and Fawkner Clinics will treat accordingly to your complaint. Treatments that may be provided but are not limited to include:

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Cupping and Its Benefits!

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What Is Cupping?

Our bodies work through allot of stress throughout the day and therefor we will tight and tender when things start to crumble. We may find when this happens, changes to our posture and poor habits begin to show causing a decline in our musculoskeletal health. One of the biggest causes can be desk work or poor sleeping habits which may irritate both the neck and lower back areas.

About Cupping

Cupping can be used for various musculoskeletal injuries or issues that may arise. This treatment modality works best on large areas meaning its great for people suffering with upper back pain or low back pain. Its also great for joint inflammation, areas of overuse and of course tight muscles. These can include conditions such as pelvic pain, buttock pain, leg pain (hamstrings or quadraceps), neck pain and shoulder pain.

What is Myofascial Cupping?

Myofascial Cupping is a remedial massage technique that gently lifts the muscle tissue using suction cups to help the fascia return to an ideal position whilst increasing blood circulation and the bodies’ ability to absorb nutrients within the area the cups are applied to, thus speeding up repair of the area and its surrounding tissues.

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Myofascial Cupping

Benefits of Cupping

  • Pain relief
  • Promote healing
  • Increase range of motion
  • Increase circulation of blood to the area
  • Provide muscle release within the area
  • Return of correct biomechanics
  • Increased strength and function of musculoskeletal system
  • Ability to be used on hard to release muscle groups (muscle strain, hip/glute/hamstring/quadricep injuries)

What Does Cupping Help With?

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Cupping Used For Joint Pain

The Melbourne Chiropractor in Broadmeadows, Westmeadows and Fawkner is here to help!

Our team of practitioners are fully equipped to perform Cupping and have also done courses in cupping and all other treatment modalities offered so that you have peace of mind during the session. Both our chiropractors and remedial massage therapists can perform this service (dependant on qualifications). All of our services are claimable through private health. Our clinics are Open Weekends, Online Bookings Available Now!

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Can Chiropractic Care help TMJ Pain?

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Jaw Pain

The TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) can become one those areas that makes an annoying clicking sounds to one that brings on excruciating headaches and face pain. It is the main joint that connect your jaw to your skull and has many ligaments, muscles and nerves associated with the region. Most common causes of Jaw pain are due to stress, trauma, arthritis, grinding your teeth, clenching or joint dysfunction.

What are Symptoms of TMJ?

  • Neck pain
  • Headaches or Migraines
  • Ear or Tooth Aches
  • Face pain when chewing or biting
  • Tenderness in the area, face jaw or neck
  • Pain when opening the mouth
  • Clicking or popping jaw sounds
  • Ear ringing
  • Dizziness

How Chiropractic Care Helps TMJ pain

Chiropractic Adjustments

Our Chiropractors may use adjustments on your jaw if we see there is a need to. Most of the times only 5 to 10% of cases need to be adjusted as muscles in the area are usually the main problem.

Exercises or Stretches

We recommend certain exercises or stretches to help alleviate tension within the region. Usually due to the extreme tightness within the jaw gentle stretches and exercises can help out allot, especially with preventing flareups of the region.

Massage or Trigger Point Therapy

Chiropractors may use soft tissue release techniques especially trigger points in the area as muscle bundles tend to form. Surrounding musculature may also be involved and will be treated accordingly based on the examination findings.

Postural Issues / Sleeping Habits

Our Chiropractors will also look at your posture and check for any related issues to the problem. Sleeping habits and lifestyle changes such as standing desks or better sitting ergonomics can go a long way especially with upper body tension and tightness.

Tips To Help Reduce TMJ pain

  • Using Heat or Ice packs help to relax the facial muscles surrounding the TMJ area.
  • Gentle Stretches to the area can help improve joint mobility (Open, close and side to side movements)
  • Changes to sleeping habits (Change Pillows)

Note* If you are currently suffering from any problematic concerns such as jaw pain, neck or back pain, are wondering what we do on your first chiropractic session or would like to make a booking, you can always contact us to find out more! Online bookings available 7 days a week Saturdays and Sundays @ https://themelbournechiropractor.com.au/book-now

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Services Offered At The Melbourne Chiropractor

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Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care is recognized as being a way to help decrease pain and increase overall functional well-being. Chiropractor’s may help you achieve a healthier lifestyle by giving you strategies to overcome stress, injuries, pain, and other musculoskeletal conditions. This can all be done with various methods and not one person is treated the same to the other hence why many modalities are used to make the changes needed to make a difference!

Chiropractic care may help improve

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Chiropractic care may help with

Pregnancy Care

Pregnancy Symptoms Commonly Treated Be Practitioners

  • General aches and pains
  • Nausea or vomiting
  • Incorrect foetal positioning (breach)
  • Uncomfortable movement
  • Swelling
  • Headache treatment
  • Pelvic discomfort or pelvic instability
  • Excessive uterus pressure
  • Weight distribution issues
  • Excessive labor time in previous birth

Our Practitioners Aim To Help Manage

  • Musculoskeletal related aches and pains
  • Ensuring correct weight distribution for the baby’s growth
  • Prevent spinal pain
  • Helps to manage muscular soreness or joint pain
  • Postural strain or sprains during pregnancy
  • Labor exacerbated/previous spinal weaknesses or injuries

Paediatric Care

Chiropractic Treatment Used To Help With

  • Pain
  • Sport Injuries
  • Growth
  • Co-ordination
  • Muscle Pain
  • Sleep Disturbance
  • Muscle Imbalances
  • Concentration
  • Circulation
  • Colic
  • Reflux
  • Bedwetting
  • Constipation

Remedial Massage Therapy

Remedial Massage is the oldest form of physical therapy, this specific form is more than just a relaxation technique. What Remedial Massage aims to do is find the “knots” also known as trigger points and apply pressure to them. What this does is release the knots where the pressure is applied allowing the muscles to free up. Our select team of practitioners are qualified to practice remedial therapy meaning that you are in good hands when choosing our services at The Melbourne Chiropractor.

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Remedial Massage Therapy

Benefits of Remedial Massage and Myotherapy

  • Pain relief
  • Increased circulation of blood
  • Promotion of healing
  • Increased range of motion
  • Increased strength and functionality of muscle tissues
  • Return of correct biomechanics
  • Provide instant muscle release
  • Can be used on hard to release muscle areas and groups

Who can be treated?

Massage and Myotherapy can be used for a variety of musculoskeletal problems neuromuscular dysfunction, muscle imbalances and pain syndromes. Therapy is specifically aimed to help with muscular pain, myofascial pain syndrome, hypertonic muscles, muscular tension, overuse injury, painful tendons, tender ligaments and more.

Symptoms Treated

  • Muscle Pain
  • Joint Pain
  • Bone Pain
  • Neck Pain
  • Back Pain
  • Arm Pain
  • Leg Pain
  • Frozen Shoulder
  • Golfer’s Elbow
  • Carpal Tunnel
  • Tennis Elbow
  • Sciatica
  • Headaches
  • Migraines
  • Sinus Symptoms
  • TMJ & Jaw Pain
  • Tension-type Headaches

Dry Needling

Dry needling can be used for a variety of musculoskeletal problems, neuromuscular dysfunction, muscle imbalances and pain syndromes. Therapy is specifically aimed to help with muscular pain, myofascial pain syndrome, hypertonic and tender muscles, overuse injury, painful tendons, tender ligaments and more.

Many muscular related conditions are thought to be a primary contributing factor to pain and other related symptoms. These conditions include, but are not limited to neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, arm pain, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, golfer’s elbow, headaches, migraines and tension-type headaches, jaw pain, buttock pain, pelvic pain, leg pain, sciatica, hamstrings strains, calf tightness/spasms.

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Dry Needling

Dry Needling Helps With (but not limited to)

  • TMJ & Jaw pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • Sciatica
  • Joint inflammation
  • Back pain
  • Sore or stiff neck
  • Low back pain
  • Sinus symptoms
  • Frozen shoulder
  • Tennis elbow
  • Joint pain
  • Tissue swelling
  • Muscle tension anywhere in the body

Benefits of Dry Needling

  • Pain relief
  • Promotion of healing
  • Increased range of motion
  • Increased circulation of blood
  • Provide instant muscle release
  • Return of correct biomechanics
  • Increased strength and functionality of muscle tissue
  • Can be used on hard to release muscle areas and groups (muscle strain, tendon injuries, TMJ)

Cupping

Cupping is a technique that can be used for a variety of musculoskeletal problems, neuromuscular dysfunction, muscle imbalances and pain syndromes. Therapy is specifically aimed to help with muscular pain, myofascial pain syndrome, hypertonic and tender muscles, overuse injury and more.

Many muscular related conditions are thought to be a primary contributing factor to pain and other related symptoms. These conditions include, but are not limited to headaches, migraines, tension-type headaches, neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, arm pain, tennis elbow, buttock pain, pelvic pain, leg pain, sciatica, hamstrings strains, calf tightness/spasms.

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Myofascial Cupping

Cupping Helps With (but not limited to)

  • Headaches
  • Shoulder pain
  • Sciatica
  • Joint inflammation
  • Back pain
  • Sore or stiff neck
  • Low back pain
  • Sinus symptoms
  • Frozen shoulder
  • Tennis elbow
  • Joint pain
  • Tissue swelling
  • Muscle tension anywhere in the body

Benefits of Cupping

  • Pain relief
  • Promotion of healing
  • Increased range of motion
  • Increased circulation of blood
  • Provide instant muscle release
  • Return of correct biomechanics
  • Increased strength and functionality of muscle tissue
  • Can be used on hard to release muscle areas and groups (muscle strain, hip/glute/hamstring/quadricep injuries)

Note* If you are currently suffering from any problematic concerns such as neck or back pain, are wondering what we do on your first chiropractic session or would like to make a booking, you can always contact us to find out more! Online bookings available 7 days a week Saturdays and Sundays @ https://themelbournechiropractor.com.au/book-now

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Has Time Run Out To Fix Your Posture?

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Can You Fix Your Poor Posture?

Our Chiropractors at The Melbourne Chiropractor have seen first hand that poor posture can cause devastating affects on the bodies musculoskeletal system for both young and older patients. What they have found is areas of dysfunction caused by poor posture have influenced problems such as degeneration, sprains or strains or even put people at risk of overuse type injuries.

How long you have had poor posture is not a reason to think it cannot be changed, the biggest issue, is how it was caused and what other underlying factors such as trauma or medical problems the patient is dealing with. Most times we find that posture can be improved within the first 8-12 weeks if it is a functional cause, although depending on the severity it may take up to 6 months to see changes in areas that are severely degenerated and affected by poor posture. Lifestyle factors and habits will also come in to play as forward posture at the desk from long hours can limit the amount of change from therapy.

What Is Considered Poor Posture?

  • Forward head carriage
  • Rolling of the shoulders (forward)
  • Increased curve in the low back
  • Increased curve in the upper/mid back
  • In toeing of the feet
  • Scoliosis / Kyphosis Curve
  • Unbalanced hips and shoulders
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Good Vs Bad Postures

Associated Problems Caused by Poor Posture?

Most Common Causes of Poor Posture

Ways To Improve Posture

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How Can The Melbourne Chiropractor Help Your Posture?

Note* If you are currently suffering from postural issues the early you start the better off you will be. If you are wondering what we do on your first chiropractic session or would like to make a booking, you can always contact us to find out more! Online bookings also available 7 days a week @ https://themelbournechiropractor.com.au/book-now

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Can Chiropractors Help With Back Pain?

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Back pain is known as the most common cause of bodily pain in Australia. It affects up to 90% of the population at least once throughout their life. There are many different forms of back pain ranging from acute to chronic with various symptoms associated with it. They may include radiating pain down the legs or pins and needles in lower body regions.

The Most Common Causes of Back Pain Include:

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Low Back Pain Causing Dysfunction

How to help manage back pain

There are several things you can do that may help prevent and manage back pain:

  • Ice or Heat can provide relief in the acute stages (<48 hours).
  • Stretches and exercises specific for low back pain can help improve or even decrease pain.
  • Keep heavy lifting minimal and when doing so using correct technique to do so (knees bent).
  • Keeping active such as a simple walk and decreasing seated activity helps increase mobility and flexibility throughout the area.
  • Visit your allied health professional and see how they can implement certain techniques to alleviate your back pain.
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5 ways Chiropractors may be able to help with back pain

Chiropractic care can help alleviate low back pain using just a few ways below:

Spinal Adjustments

Our Chiropractor will assess the areas that are restricted within the spine in both the upper and lower sections to ensure they correct the dysfunctions identified. This will help improve function in the area by reducing tension and alleviating the pain causing the issue. Surrounding areas will also be assessed to ensure that they are not pulling or twisting the area in an unnatural position causing what we think to be the “main” cause of back pain.

Low Back Stretches and Exercises

Low Back exercises and Low Back Stretches may be implemented to help assist with building strength and maintaining flexibility throughout the area of concern. The exercises will be tailored towards what areas of the body need exercise and stretches although general exercises will be given aswell to ensure that the patient has a variety to choose from to suit their needs.

Remedial Massage Therapy, Dry Needling or Cupping

If needed our chiropractors may refer you to our remedial massage therapists or even implement other modalities such as Dry Needling or Cupping to help decrease muscle tightness, especially for people suffering with low back pain.

Posture Checks

Our Chiropractors at The Melbourne Chiropractor understand that different modalities should be used to help alleviate pain and discomfort. there is not one recipe that works for every patient hence why our clinic has various practitioners performing different types of chiropractic care. Posture for low back pain can be a big problem and this is why our chiropractors will check for instability within the hips, changes to toe in and toe out of the foot and changes to upper back and lower back curvature. It is common to find underlying postural related issues that can have an impact long term on recovering from back pain hence why our team take a holistic approach to chiropractic care to ensure everything gets done the right way from the beginning.

Doctor Referrals or Specialists

Our Broadmeadows Chiropractor especially has worked with patients of surgeons who have had spinal fusions or surgeries related to previous low back pain. What we find is patients who have had surgery before have a limitation in low back movement hence why we try to alleviate the tension associated with the area that has been fused. At times we also may refer patients out to surgeons to get a second set of eyes to look at the situation although most of the time we will refer to a doctor to get the right information to proceed. Most times our team of chiropractors will refer for an X-ray and create a report before sending a patient of to a GP for further testing.

If you are someone who is suffering from low back pain and doesn’t know where to start, or wondering what to expect on your first chiropractor visit, our team of chiropractors or remedial massage therapists are more than happy to help you get back on track. You can always contact us or book online @ https://themelbournechiropractor.com.au/book-now

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Improve Your Health with Chiropractic Care!

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Chiropractic Wellness Care

You have just visited an allied health professional and your feeling allot better now! But, question is…. Will you be doing anything different to what you were doing before? If your answer is No then it may be ideal to keep an appointment for later on in the month to combat these pain episodes that have been bringing you down!

Pain is a signal coming from the body that alerts us that we are doing something wrong. Hence why we should aim to make changes to combat pain by altering our lifestyle (especially those bad habits!)

Chiropractic Care and How It Can Improve Your Wellbeing?

At The Melbourne Chiropractor we acknowledge that continuous episodes of pain are to be managed over a period of time. This can be done with Chiropractic adjustments, Remedial Massage, Cupping or Dry Needling just to name a few although with allot of these issues exercises and stretches are implemented to help maintain the best of postures and pain free activities overtime. Most commonly patients seek chiropractic care for neck pain, back pain, headaches and repetitive strain injuries/overuse.

Our team of practitioners offer wellness care for those who are willing to take their wellbeing to the next level. This incorporates a plan that helps to reduce reoccurrences of episodes from pain and increase overall mobility and function of the body. Advice on daily living activities such as work posture, lifting biomechanics and sleeping are all things our team look into to improve your wellbeing for many years to come.

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Chiropractic Care

What Is Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic Care involves the movement of joints back to a normal position where the body is then able to move effectively. Tension is also decreased from the area as tight muscles are relieved and an increase in mobility and flexibility can be seen almost instantly. There are many different techniques that a chiropractor may use including manual adjustments, low force techniques, trigger point therapy, dry needling, prescribe exercises, prescribe stretching or mobilisations in the area of complaint.

Our team of practitioners at The Melbourne Chiropractor strive to get functioning to the best of your abilities. By getting to the bottom of the problem early on it will be easier to tackle the complaint in a shorter period of time.

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Dry Needling and Its Benefits!

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Our daily routines effect the way our bodies adapt to stresses, at times these adaptations can turn into episodes of pain and create unwanted postural changes or even irritations of certain areas under stress. The 3 key factors that usually cause a decline in musculoskeletal health include a difficult/stressful working environment, bad sleeping routine and limited physical activity.

The body can only keep up for so long before it crashes. When it does you may begin to feel sore and tight, maybe even get headaches or unwanted low back tension. Therefore it is ideal to keep yourself in check to help maintain areas that are not able to keep up with the demands needed daily.

Dry Needling comes into play here as it helps to relieve pain and soreness in the affected muscles. Usually they are placed in areas where there are trigger points and they can be reduced to give relief!

About Dry Needling

Dry needling can be used for a variety of musculoskeletal problems, neuromuscular dysfunction, muscle imbalances and pain syndromes. Therapy is specifically aimed to help with muscular pain, myofascial pain syndrome, hypertonic and tender muscles, overuse injury, painful tendons, tender ligaments and more.

Many muscular related conditions are thought to be a primary contributing factor to pain and other related symptoms. These conditions include, but are not limited to neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, arm pain, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, golfer’s elbow, headaches, migraines and tension-type headaches, jaw pain, buttock pain, pelvic pain, leg pain, sciatica, hamstrings strains, calf tightness/spasms.

Benefits of Dry Needling?

  • Pain relief
  • Decreased Stress
  • Promotion of healing
  • Increased range of motion
  • Increased Flexibility
  • Increased circulation of blood
  • Allows for muscle release
  • Helps with the bodies biomechanics
  • Increased strength and overall function of the area
  • Can be used on hard to release muscle areas (muscle strain, tendon injuries, TMJ)
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What Is Trigger Point Dry Needling?

Dry needling is the use of either solid filiform needles or hollow-core hypodermic needles, to be inserted directly into the trigger points and muscle bundles to act as a stimulant from underneath the skin.

The process of dry needling, either with or without Myotherapy Massage will help to increase circulation and blood flow, thus speeding up repair of the area and its surrounding tissues.

What Does Trigger Point Dry Needling Do?

Dry needling of a trigger point will elicit an involuntary reflex in the muscle fibres which forces blood, oxygen and inflammation into the muscle. In turn, the nerve endings in the muscle will be stimulated, resulting in a reduction in pain and release of tension in the muscle.

It elicits the same response as with non-invasive trigger point therapy and deep tissue massage. Please ask one of our friendly staff for more information or book online today!

What Can Dry Needling Be Used For?

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Dry Needling Of The Knee

The Melbourne Chiropractor in Broadmeadows, Westmeadows and Fawkner is here to help!

Our team of practitioners are fully equipped to perform dry needling and have also done courses in dry needling so that you have peace of mind during the session. All of our services are claimable through private health. Our clinics are Open Weekends, Online Bookings Available Now!

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Common Posture Issues and How You Can Improve Them!

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Posture Diagram

Common posture problems:

Rounding shoulders

This is when you are sitting with your head forward, away from its ‘neutral’ position. When our head is sitting in a forward position, it increases the load and compression on the neck. As a general rule, every 2.5cm that the head is in a forward posture, an additional 4-5kg of weight is felt on the neck!

Forward head posture

Rounding shoulders is exactly what it sounds like. You may often hear people refer to this as being in a slouched position. We can begin to develop rounding or rolled forward shoulders after being in this sustained, hunched position and adapting it as a postural habit.

Slouching in upper back

When the spine of the upper back curves at an increased angle. This can also be known as an increased kyphosis. This position is often adapted after continuously maintaining a slouched position, rounding shoulders and forward head carriage.

Increased curve in lower back

This is also known as increased lordosis or hyper lordosis. In this position, your pelvis tilts forward and creates an exaggerated curve in your mid to lower back region.

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Good vs Poor Posture

What’s the cause of posture problems?

  • Desk Work
  • Long periods of driving
  • Incorrect sleeping positions or pillow
  • Weak stabilising muscles
  • Hypertonic muscles
  • Structural or functional changes such as scoliosis
  • Sedentary activity
  • Progression of the ageing process (degeneration)

What can be done to help prevent posture issues from occurring?

  1. Awareness of your posture
  2. Stretching and using things such as a posture pole
  3. Keeping active!
  4. Ergonomic working environments
  5. Using the correct pillow
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Correct Seating Posture vs Incorrect

Benefits of Having a Good Posture:

  • Reduction of muscle tension
  • Decreased stress on joints and ligaments
  • Increase in energy and mood
  • Decreases the risk of injury
  • Helps decrease episodes of pain and tension throughout the body

How Can Our Team Help?

Depending on the severity of the injury or area of concern our practitioners in our Broadmeadows, Westmeadows and Fawkner Clinics will treat accordingly to your complaint. Treatments that may be provided but are not limited to include:

  • Spinal manipulation, Activator Methods, Drop Piece, SOT and other adjustive techniques can help alleviate joints that have restriction such as spinal segments and joints (LeFebvre, Peterson & Haas, 2012)
  • PNF/PIR/prescribed stretching – Stretching has shown to reduce pain, improve functionality of the wrist and hand also maintains strength and improves patients in both long and short-term outcomes.
  • Remedial Massage, Trigger point therapy or use of handheld massager – Have shown to decrease pain/tenderness, enhance both range of motion and quality of life and influence flexibility (Shah et al., 2015) (Imtiyaz, Veqar & Shareef, 2014)
  • Advice on daily living activities/diet – This enables advice on how to change to make healthy        actions into habits and may offer a valuable alternative with potential for long-term   impact. (Gardner, Lally & Wardle, 2012)
  • Prescribed exercises – produce more beneficial outcomes in terms of increased strength, improved function and reduced pain scores. (Fernandes, Pedrinelli & Hernandez, 2015)
  • Dry Needling or Cupping to the surrounding musculature to help decrease tension and inflammation around the area of the hand and forearm.
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Chiropractic Treatment

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