What Type of Chiropractic Care are you after?
Chiropractic care is aimed at the cause of the problem, not just at treating the symptoms. Chiropractic offers natural, drug-free relief for a variety of health issues. Often considered for just neck and back problems, our chiropractors offer much more to today’s health conscious family in Helensvale.
We invite you to explore our information-rich website. You’ll find answers to many of the most common questions about chiropractic and natural health care.
The all important link between chiropractic care, your nervous system and general good health. As health practitioners, we pride ourselves in listening to our patients and offer the very best treatments to suit your individual needs.
Our clinic is located in Helensvale on the Gold Coast, our chiropractors have the privilege of looking
after many of your neighbors in the Hope Island, Monterey Keys, Coomera, Upper Coomera, Arundel, Oxenford, Pacific Pines, Gaven, Pimpama, Ormeau, Biggeria Waters and Runaway Bay. We also have a lot of our patients that travel from Brisbane and the Tweed Coast for chiropractic care.
Find out why so many satisfied patients come to our offices and get such good results, plus have the
confidence in us to refer their friends and family.
Is Chiropractic Safe?
Chiropractors are well educated and very skilled in the art of spinal adjustments or manipulation, in fact, chiropractic is one of the safest healing therapy’s. Plus there are so many new and modern ways to adjust the spine, that delivers a safe and gentle force to the subluxated or fixated vertebra, thus restoring normal movement back into the spine and improving posture.
Are Chiropractors Well Educated?
Yes, Chiropractors are well educated, in fact chiropractor’s do similar hours over a 4-5 year period as medical students. Plus use many of the same text books. Chiropractor’s will focus more on spinal anatomy, X-ray analysis, diagnosis and treatment of spinal subluxations (Spinal misalignments). A medical student will focus more on pharmacology and general diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses. Like the medical profession chiropractor’s are registered primary health care providers and must complete post graduate continuing education courses every year to maintain their registration. The chiropractic profession has on-going research and development in to new ways of diagnosis, treatment and techniques to ensure that chiropractic maintains a leading edge as a primary health care professional.
What Do Chiropractors Do?
Once you have decided to come to our office, you will fill out a health questionnaire, detailing your reason visiting our office, past and present history, traumas etc. The chiropractor will perform some orthopaedic, neurological and range of movement tests in order to determine the underlying cause. An X-ray may be performed to see exactly where the problem(s) exist. The chiropractor is looking for subluxations and postural distortions of the spine, these maybe acute or chronic in nature.