Our Chiropractor, Rebekah Tho, is focusing on sleep at the moment with lots of parents and kids trying to catch up on some missed hours over the break! The holidays are a perfect time for good sleep on a good pillow. It is so important to sleep with your neck supported and the CC team believe this so much that we are offering a complimentary pillow fitting! We would love to see more people feeling well rested after a great night's sleep. 

Call or email us to organise a free fitting for your best pillow. ​

​Kym has made up some more soy candles with all new scents that are available now. Spoil yourself or a friend this break with a little gift for only $4. Pop in to pick one up from our front desk.

Congratulations to Deanne and her husband Brent on the arrival of their beautiful baby girl Phoebe Amity Spranklin. Phoebe was born on Sunday 19th August 2018 around lunch time. The new parents are loving their little girl and all the joy she brings.

Rebekah Tho will be the only Chiropractor at our clinic while Deanne is on maternity leave. To book an appointment with Rebekah make sure to give us a call on 3172 7337. 

We wish Brent, Deanne and Phoebe all the best! 

​Much of the region works either on tea plantations, picking 20kg bags of tea, or breaking river stones by hand to sell for the creation of roads and buildings. On average this lifetime of hard labour brings in $1-2 per day and leaves many with musculo-skeletal aches, pains and problems. Child-labour rates are high and there is very limited access to basic health care.

HOI will return to Siliguri in January 2018 for their 12th trip. Over the course of two weeks they will stay as guests of the Seva Kendra Mission travelling to surrounding areas where they will set-up temporary clinics and provide care. This time, there will be a team of 36 chiropractors, including our very own Scott!

All of the team members are volunteering their time, paying their own travel expenses and working hard to raise funds to support community projects, improve the communities overall quality of life, and help break the cycle of poverty.

Please note 100% of all funds raised goes directly to providing care to the region; setting up temporary clinics, funding 7 primary schools with 700 children and supporting over 2000 women in microeconomics and Women’s Empowerment projects. Donations can be made in the clinic  or at gofundme.com/handsonindia. Every dollar helps, thank you for helping make a difference to so many.

It can be very tempting to head straight for the couch and put all moving on hold when that all-too-familiar low back pain decides to strike. But as always, we're here to tell you otherwise. In the wise words of Ludacris - MOVE!

​If you've ever seen me in clinic, there's a good chance I've told you "movement is your friend". One of the gurus amongst low back pain (LBP) is Professor Stuart McGill - and his recommendations for LBP includes the three simple exercises shown below.​

Give these exercises a go at home and we can check your technique next time we see you. If these movements are painful, be sure to get in touch with us before adding them to your daily routine.

​I also recommend a LBP warm-up exercise bestowed onto me by Sydney Chiropractor, Health Associates. It's dubbed the Four'N Twenty and it's as easy as pie! Every morning, while laying on your back in bed all you have to do is:

• ​4 gentle knee raises on each side
• 20 gentle knee rocks

​With knees and hips bent, gently sway your knees from side to side.

​Simple, right? These two activities will introduce flexion and extension of the SIJ an rotation into the lumbar spine helping to warm up (and wake up) muscles of the low back.

​The best available evidence suggests that in most cases, flat-out rest is about the worst thing we can do for our LBP. Studies comparing bed rest and exercise for chronic LBP are consistent in showing bed rest delays LBP recovery while exercise, (whether it's walking, yoga, cardio or resistance training) helps to relieve pain. There are several mechanisms for this including:

• Increased strength and support
• Improved flexibility (reduced stiffness)
• Enhanced blood flow to the low back (which helps our tissues heal)

​Remember - not all back pain is alike and the above should serve as a guide. There is emerging, high-quality evidence in favour of chiropractic care and LBP (and if you're following us you probably already know the benefits first hand), so come visit us in the clinic and we can check your form and make specific recommendations for you.

​In the meantime, grab your active wear and schedule in some 'me' time today!

Sydney Roosters, the St George Dragons and the NRL Allstars. During this time, he also had the opportunity to work alongside some of Australia's premiere performance coaches.

​Whether you're suffering from a sporting injury, everyday aches and pains, or would like to support your Chiropractic care, Jordan's remedial massage therapy will help you function and feel better!

Over the past 50 years there has been a shift in the way we use our bodies. We're working smarter, not harder - especially as adults. Our children are encouraged to pursue a healthy and active lifestyle while going through school but for most of us, when high school ends, so too do our sporting pursuits.

​By the time we've sat down to eat, driven to work, sat down at work all day and sat down some more to watch Netflix, we can be sitting down for just about every waking moment of our adult life! This shift in the way we use our bodies has led to an increase in sitting-related musculo-skeletal conditions. Furthermore, studies have suggested that prolonged sitting is a risk factor for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, even if we exercise. So what can we do?

​This is a question that pops up almost everyday - how should I be sitting at work? What is the ideal work posture? After reviewing the literature, and having our lovely receptionist Catherine snap some photos, I can safely say that I am not leading by example.

Looking at the photos above, we can see that either my stool is too high or my desk is too low. So I pinched the receptionists chair for a much more comfortable set-up, which can be seen in the photo below.

Check out this link for some further reading on postural retraining and its effectiveness on treating spinal dysfunction.