Tag: Crows Nest
How To Control Your Stress
For many years Chiropractor Dr Eric Hansen has been treating patients with anxiety and stress with great success in decreasing the harmful effects prolonged stress can have on your body. Unfortunately, stress is a natural part of life. The reaction your body has to stress is highly evolved to allow you to function for a [...]
New Mothers and their Back Pain! Get relief NOW!
Women delight in the affects of chiropractic care during their pregnancy as a way to relieve the back pain caused by excess weight in carrying their unborn child. The benefits that can be seen during pregnancy can also be felt once your child is born! The impact of the changed lifestyle on a woman’s body [...]
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS) is the most commonly diagnosed sports injury and yet its cause and treatment are still relatively unclear. Pain is localized to retropatellar (behind the knee) and is directly related to the tracking of the kneecap. It is a multifaceted pain syndrome that is related to biomechanical dysfunctions, muscular problems, overuse and [...]
Pubic Symphysis Dysfunction and your Pregnancy
It is common for women from around the 12-week mark of their pregnancy to feel pain down the front of their pelvis. And an all too common response is that it is “normal” and so women put up with it! But they need not! In preparation for birth a pregnancy hormone, ‘relaxin’ is released [...]
Give Your Kids Good Posture
Do you remember your parents telling you to sit up straight and to stop slouching? Well you were lucky if they did! Good posture starts from before you are even born! The way that you are carried in the womb, the way you are held as a baby, and then progressively by the habits you [...]
How Vitamin D helps your Bones
Here in Australia we have a love/hate relationship with the sun. We love the outdoors but it comes with its drawbacks – sunburn and unfortunately this could lead to skin cancers. Ironically we have been told recently that we must spend time in the sunshine without sunscreen or protection! Why you ask?! For the health [...]
Is your neck causing you pain?
Many things can cause pain in the neck such as traumas and poor posture.. but you don’t have to suffer! The neck is a delicate and complex structure. It is more mobile than the rest of the spine and houses some critical pathways, both neurological (spinal cord) and functional (esophagus, trachea, vertebral arties etc). [...]
Could Your Back Pain be a Disc Herniation?
Have you ever heard of someone having a “slipped” disc, a bulged disc, or a disc herniation? All of these terms refer to the same thing! One thing must be cleared up to start though – you cannot physically “slip” your disc! It’s anatomically impossible!! A disc herniation are caused by excessive load forces and [...]
How to be a Healthier More Attractive YOU!
Have you ever noticed that the people who catch your eye tend to be standing taller than the rest? Poor posture affects the ability of the body to function. Just like stepping on a hose and lessening or stopping the flow of water, having a vertebra out of alignment we can see the same effect [...]
Sway or Flat Back causing you Pain?
We know it sounds quirky but sway back and flat back are legitimate structural abnormalities of the spine that are common in today’s society and is an underlying factor causing back pain! The techy names are hyperlordosis (sway back) and hypolordosis (flat back), and that’s just it, it refers to the lordosis of your back! [...]
Before and After
