Chiropractic
What is it?
Chiropractic is a straight-forward method of adjusting the bones of your body to maintain the correct alignment of your spine and to ensure that your body’s nerve supply works efficiently. Through subtle alignments chiropractic treatment can relieve pain and discomfort and increase mobility.
Chiropractors use only their hands to make adjustments to the bones of your body. The key to success of the adjustments is in the speed, dexterity and accuracy with which they are performed.
The following treatments can often benefit from treatment:-
- back, neck and shoulder pain
- pain, discomfort and stiffness in joints and bones
- migraine and tension headaches
- muscular aches and pains
- sciatica
- whiplash injury
- sports injuries
What to expect
Your chiropractor will take a full case history regarding our general health and symptoms. They will then thoroughly examine all the joints in your body, literally from head to toe, using only their hands, and make the appropriate adjustments where necessary. Chiropractors have a very finely tuned sense of touch, developed in their four years of training, which enables them to feel for misalignments of the vertebrae and bones. Upon feeling a problem, your chiropractor will use one of a number of light, swift and dexterous techniques, unique to McTimoney method, to adjust the bone.
If your chiropractor discovers or suspects a problem which requires medical investigation they will refer you to your GP.
The number of sessions required varies depending on your age, the nature of the problem and how long you have had the problem. Most patients require from 2 – 6 sessions, initially at weekly intervals and then gradually more widely spaced out.
During the treatment most patients feel physical changes as the body realigns. These may include a period of stiffness or tiredness, but more often a feeling of well-being and relief from stress.