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How Chiropractic Care Can Help Runners with Pain!

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Injury Prevention

Running has become an increasingly popular way to stay fit and enjoy the outdoors. However, with the rise in this activity, many runners have encountered unexpected aches and pains. While common running injuries are often associated with the ankles, knees, and hips, back pain is another frequent complaint, often felt on one side of the lower back near the sacroiliac (SI) joint.

What Is the Sacroiliac Joint and Why Does It Matter?

The SI joints are located where your sacrum (the base of your spine) meets your pelvis. These joints play a crucial role in absorbing shock and facilitating smooth movement between your upper and lower body. Although they don’t move much, their gliding motion is vital for activities like running.

When an SI joint becomes restricted or misaligned, your body compensates, potentially leading to pain in the back, hips, knees, or even ankles. On the other hand, prolonged sitting or tight muscles like the hamstrings and hip rotators can add stress to the SI joint, further contributing to discomfort.

How Chiropractic Can Help Runners

Chiropractors specialize in identifying and addressing joint restrictions, including those in the SI joint. Here’s how chiropractic care can make a difference:

Assessment and Adjustment

A chiropractor can evaluate your body’s biomechanics to pinpoint areas that aren’t functioning properly. If the SI joint is the culprit, adjustments can restore its motion and alleviate pain.

Muscle Stretching and Release

Tight hamstrings and hip rotators often accompany SI joint issues. Chiropractors may recommend stretches or foam rolling to loosen these muscles, improving flexibility and reducing strain on the joint.

Injury Prevention

Regular chiropractic adjustments can help maintain optimal joint function, reducing the risk of future injuries. Preventive care is especially beneficial for runners, as the repetitive nature of the activity puts ongoing stress on the SI joint.

Tips for Runners Experiencing Pain

  • Incorporate foam rolling into your routine before and after running to enhance muscle recovery.
  • Stretch your hip rotators and hamstrings regularly to relieve tension.

Running should be a pain-free and enjoyable activity. By addressing issues like SI joint dysfunction early, you can stay active and avoid interruptions to your training. If you’re experiencing discomfort, consider visiting a chiropractor to get back on track—literally and figuratively!

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Knee & Ankle Pain Coming From Your Hips!?

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Hip Pain & Low Back Pain

You may experience knee or foot pain without remembering that you have injured it. Well, it might be coming from the joint above or below!

Our body is connected in a way that one joint may have an effect on the other if dysfunction arises and joints are not moving properly as it should.

Here is a scenario, you have a muscle spasm in your low back and you are leaning towards one side when you walk. What that ultimately does is putting more weight on one knee when you limp.

Now, muscles adapt to new movements fairly quickly. A week of limping may be enough to allow the knee muscles to work differently and puts different pressure onto the knee joint itself. As time goes by long after your back spasm recovers, you may notice that you get the occasional knee soreness and that might be because your joints and muscles are just used to move in the improper way.   

Conversely, if you have a history of multiple ankle injuries and the ligaments are weaker, this may affect the way you walk and in turn, affect your pelvic alignment!

Whatever it is, having a check-up from a qualified chiropractor can help you understand your biomechanics better and improve your overall function sooner.

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Spring Has Sprung!

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Spring 2024

Finally, the warmer weather is here, and it’s time to shake off the winter stiffness! As we transition from the colder months into the bright, refreshing days of spring, our bodies need a little extra care to adjust. After spending months in hibernation mode, wrapped in blankets, spending more time indoors, and moving less, many of us feel tense, achy, and a bit sluggish.

Now is the perfect time to take action. Spring represents renewal and fresh starts, and your health should be no exception. Here’s why you should include chiropractic care in your spring wellness routine and how it can help you feel recharged for the season ahead.

Revitalise Your Body After Winter’s Rest

During the winter months, we often adopt sedentary habits—sitting more, exercising less, and spending less time outdoors. This inactivity can lead to stiffness, poor posture, and even misalignment in your spine. Chiropractic adjustments help correct these misalignments, restoring your body’s natural balance and promoting better mobility.

Prepare For Springtime Activities

Spring brings more opportunities for outdoor activities, whether it’s gardening, hiking, running, or spring cleaning. But if your body isn’t prepared for this sudden increase in physical activity, you might find yourself dealing with discomfort or injury. Chiropractic care ensures your body is in optimal condition before you hit the trails or start moving furniture.

Renew Your Energy and Well-being

Winter can drain not just your physical energy, but your mental and emotional well-being as well. Chiropractic care is about more than just pain relief—it can also enhance your overall sense of wellness. Regular chiropractic adjustments help reduce stress, improve sleep, and promote better mental clarity by improving blood flow and nervous system function.

Chiropractic adjustments increase flexibility, reduce muscle tension, and improve joint health, helping you avoid injuries as you jump into your favourite spring activities. By taking care of your spine and nervous system, you’re making sure your body is primed to handle the extra movement and excitement of the season

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We Are Here To Support Your Spine!

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Did you know that at any given moment, an estimated 540 million people suffer from lower back pain globally? Or that four million Australians suffer from back problems every year? It is a concerning statistic and one of epidemic proportions.

Every year, we celebrate World Spine Day to raise awareness of spinal disorders globally and improve access to quality spinal healthcare. This is a call to action for Australians to prioritise their spinal health across all aspects of their daily lives. Whether in the workplace, at home or at school, fostering daily positive spinal habits is critical to supporting the spine at every phase of life.

Our overarching goal is to raise awareness about the pivotal role chiropractic care plays in preventing and treating spinal disorders and, most importantly, empower YOU to take charge of your spinal health
and wellbeing.

It is crucial that people of all backgrounds and communities understand the importance of staying mobile, keeping active, regularly stretching and refraining from overloading their spines with excessive weight or strain.

Incorporating regular stretching exercises into your daily routines is an easy and time-efficient way to improve your spinal health immediately! The Straighten Up app offers a fantastic 3-minute exercise program featuring stretches that can help you stay aligned and reduce the risk of spinal issues.

Lastly, Chiropractors can assist you in resetting and refocusing on your spinal health, leading to improved overall wellbeing and long-term spinal health benefits.

Give us a call today at (03) 9302 1023 to embark on your wellness journey.

**Link to straighten up app: https://www.chiro.org.au/resources/health-initiatives-resources/straighten-up/

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Mill Park Chiropractic Clinic Opening January 3rd! 2025

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Mill Park Chiropractic Clinic

The Melbourne Chiropractor Mill Park provides specialised techniques to help with all types of musculoskeletal problems. With a team of 10+ and expanding to 5 clinics across Melbourne’s North in the last 3 years our chiropractors have seen first hand what it takes to deal with all types of complaints/bodily issues. Our team pride themselves to be able to not only help with symptomatic pain but also long term longevity and postural correction by pointing out areas of postural neglect that can easily lead to a healthier spine!

Our assortment of chiropractors are thankfully not governed by a one size fits all approach meaning that our chiropractors in Mill Park have the ability to treat people from all ages. Specifically Paediatric care and Pregnancy chiropractic care. This is a great specialisation to have especially in the growing area of Mill Park and surrounding suburbs with new families who want to not only achieve better health but also ensure their children are not suffering from common things such as bedwetting, colic and reflux!

All our clinics in the north including Fawkner, Broadmeadows and Westmeadows have experienced chiropractors willing to help also for the time being! The clinics currently offer chiropractic services which also include modalities such as dry needling, cupping, sports taping, trigger point therapy, Stretching and exercise prescription.

Our clinics also accept 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?

Both our 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 Mill Park or other 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 Mill Park Clinic

Our Mill Park Clinic is spacious and easily accessible by car, bus and train. 5 Onsite Parking spots available with wheelchair accessibility! Being in a growth corridor our clinic also caters for surrounding suburbs such as Epping, Wollert, Plenty, Reservoir and Thomastown!

What Can Our Team Do To Help?

Depending on the severity of the injury or area of concern our practitioners in our Broadmeadows, Westmeadows, Fawkner and Mill Park 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prescribed exercises – produce more beneficial outcomes in terms of increased strength, improved function and reduced pain scores.
  • 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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