Already this year we have talked about healthy habits, small changes you can make now to create better health for yourself in the future. Small changes are much easier to implement than completely overhauling your lifestyle. So this month we are talking about food and healthy swaps- easy switches you can make in your food choices to create better health.    Swap #1 Soft drink for kombucha We all know sugar laden soft drinks are not great for our body, causing spikes in blood sugar and no nutrition present. Many people find it hard to switch soft drink for plain water, so why not try ..read more

Good quality sleep is a precious commodity these days, especially with so many screen based distractions that can keep us awake till all hours! Sleep is crucial for resting your brain and body, allowing your body to heal, rest and grow. It is the time your brain can ‘reset’ for the next day, flushing out by-products, converting memories from short to long term and consolidating learning from the day before. Most of us are aware of what happens when we get a poor night's sleep; feeling drowsy, trouble concentrating, poor decision making, craving sugar and caffeine. So it’s time to improve your ..read more

Now that January is over, school is back and work is in full swing. It can be easy to find ourselves out of time and energy, with all those good intentions of getting more organised, getting fitter, or just being more active falling by the wayside with our busy life taking over.  But making changes to our lives doesn’t need to be difficult or time consuming. In fact, small changes that you are able to consistently apply wil have a bigger effect on your life in the long term than the complete overhaul we have usually think of.  Research has shown us that when we do something consis ..read more

Good quality sleep is a precious commodity these days, especially with so many screen based distractions that can keep us awake till all hours! Sleep is crucial for resting your brain and body, allowing your body to heal, rest and grow (if you’re of an age to still be growing!). It is the time your brain can ‘reset’ for the next day, flushing out byproducts, converting memories from short to long term and consolidating learning from the day before. Most of us are aware of what happens when we get a poor night's sleep; feeling drowsy, trouble concentrating, poor decision making. So it’s time t ..read more

What can I do about being stressed? Lots of things! There are always little changes you can make to help decrease the stress load on your body and decrease your sympathetic dominance. It is easiest to look at it through the 3 key pillars of physical, chemical and emotional health. Some physical changes you can make: Posture. When we are stressed and carrying our tension in our shoulders, it causes poor posture. It causes our shoulders to sag forward and our head to drop forward, increasing load on our neck and spine. This also changes the way that we breathe, making us always breathe from th ..read more

What is SD Protocol? The SD Protocol recognises that a lot of chronic health conditions can be linked back to the ‘fight or flight’ response being constantly switched on. It provides advice, tools and tips to allow you to calm down your system, letting your body recover and achieve greater health. What is the sympathetic nervous system? In our body we have many processes that happen automatically. We don’t have to consciously direct our body how to digest food, or tell our heart to keep beating, these actions and more are the responsibility of the Autonomic Nervous System. To allow our bod ..read more

Headache is one of the most common disorders present in our society, but one of the most poorly understood. Because there are so many causes of headache, it is impossible to take a one size fits all approach in treatments. What works for one headache and individual will not work for another, so while your mothers friends sisters headache was ‘cured’ by something, doesn’t mean that your headache will react the same. Headache is best dealt with by a health professional for proper diagnosis and treatment. Remember, just because headache is common, it doesn’t mean it is normal. Headache is one of ..read more

What is something we do 22,000 times a day? Breathe.  ​ Yes, breathing. It seems like it should be a simple activity, one we don’t even need to think about. Well, one of the things we love doing as chiropractors is helping people improve their function and health by making small changes. Yep, changing how you breathe will absolutely improve your overall health. Did you know? Our breath can affect almost every system in our bodies, especially sleep patterns and our stress levels.  A breath taken in through the mouth can affect our bodies very differently than a breath taken through ..read more

Most people begin to see a chiropractor to address a certain complaint. We often see people coming in with low back pain, tightness across the shoulders and pain between the shoulder blades, postural concerns including rounding or a ‘hump’ at the bottom of the neck, neck pain, headaches, and many, many more. As chiropractors, we assess you to determine where within your body the problem is coming from, and work on these areas to improve function. But what is happening within our body is only half the picture. Your chiropractor will also ask questions about your everyday activities as we are p ..read more

If you were to ask the average person what a chiropractor does, the answer would probably be ‘crack your back’ or ‘fix your joints’. So what does that have to do with muscles? Something we have heard a bit recently is “It’s just a tight muscle, why would I see a chiro?”. While it’s true a chiropractor will look at your joint’s function, the ‘cracking’ is only a small part of what chiropractors are trained to do in their 5 years at university.  What is the cracking noise with a chiropractic adjustment? The noise you hear with an adjustment is simply joint fluid changing pressure as the j ..read more