Services & Techniques

CHIROPRACTIC CARE...TAILORED FOR YOU!

At Family Wellness Chiropractic, we take great pride in providing the finest chiropractic wellness care to our patients. Below is a sampling of the different chiropractic services we offer in our Mountain Creek office, such as Osteopathy & Massage Therapy. 

Chiropractic Care

We provide advanced spinal correction utilising "state of the art" chiropractic techniques. As Chiropractors, Dr Gray Moritz and Dr Monique Damon have years of training and experience in spinal adjustment and they use a range of techniques to perform adjustments and remove interference to the spine and nervous system.  We use specialised techniques for pregnant women, babies and children and elderly clients.  These techniques include:  diversified manual adjustments, activator (an instrument that provides specific but gentle adjustments), applied kinesiology, network chiropractic, Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET) - emotional testing and clearing (see below), Specific Muscle Release, and Chemical and Allergy testing. 

Our chiropractors are trained and certified in the use of the Webster Technique - a specific technique which is used with pregnant women to remove interference to the nervous system and balance maternal pelvic muscles and ligaments.This in turn reduces torsion of the uterus (which can cause inter-uterine constraint of the baby) and allows for optimal foetal positioning in preparation for birth.

 Chiropractic adjustments are gentle and effective and can be performed in a number of different ways, tailored to your needs.  Please refer to our "Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs" section for more information about adjustments. 

Nutritional Counseling (Chemical & Allergy Testing)

We provide specific recommendations on nutritional supplements and healthy food choices to enhance our patient´s return to optimal health. Do you know which supplements and vitamins are good for you? Do you know how these supplements and vitamins interact with one another? Our Chiropractors can provide a structured nutritional program based on your individual needs, as well as testing for for specific allergies and chemical toxicity (ie reactions to toxicity in your environment).

Emotional Clearing

Emotions are a natural, healthy response...in fact we have emotional reactions to just about every situation we encounter. However, sometimes we have certain emotional events in our lives that our bodies don't cope with particularly well.   This can create blocks dealing with those emotions in the future, which can contribute to physical complaints, emotional problems and difficulty achieving our goals. This can affect our overall level of health, anxiety/depression levels and general emotional state.  Our Chiropractors are trained in a simple, effective emotional technique called "NET or Neuro-Emotional Technique" which identifies and clears these emotions.  NET can help to identify old, unresolved events (either real or imagined) and help your body to release any lingering effects of these emotions.  Think about how your body reacts to your thoughts or feelings...we can be worried sick, we can salivate merely by thinking about our dinner, we can get goosebumps when we think about something that scares us, we can literally get a pain in the neck from something that is stressing us out....the body reacts in a physical sense to our thoughts and emotions every day!  NET is a great way to identify negatively-charged emotional responses that are stored in your body and help you release them. It’s fast, it's easy, and it can dramatically improve your health! 

Lifestyle Advice

We often find it helpful to "coach" our patients on certain activities they should avoid or do differently to avoid aggravating their particular health challenge. Our goal is to help every patient achieve a fulfilling and happy lifestyle full of the activities they enjoy most. We recognize that each patient is a whole person, and helping them reach true health and wellness is a collaborate effort between our professionals and our patients.

Corrective Exercises

We teach our patients special "blueprint" exercises to help strengthen and correct their own unique problem. These exercises can be performed in the comfort of your own home and can improve the effectiveness of your spinal correction. In addition to skeletal misalignment, muscles and connective tissues can be out of place or strained by improper alignment and use. Specific exercises and stretches can help your body stay in balance and in health.

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy offers a natural conservative treatment approach that relieves musculoskeletal pain for many patients. Our office provides specific massage and muscular therapy that is tailored to meet the patient's condition and injury. The benefits of massage therapy may include increasing blood circulation, reducing swelling, relaxing muscles, relieving muscle pain and spasms, and aid in recovery and range of motion.

Osteopathy

Osteopathy is a form of manual medicine which recognises the important link between the structure of the body and the way it functions. Osteopaths focus on how the skeleton, joints, muscles, nerves, circulation, connective tissue and internal organs function as a holistic unit. Using skilled evaluation, diagnosis and a wide range of hands-on techniques, osteopaths can identify important types of dysfunction in your body. Osteopathic treatment uses techniques such as stretching and massage for general treatment of the soft tissues (muscles, tendons and ligaments) along with mobilisation of specific joints and soft tissues.

In Australia, osteopaths are government registered practitioners who complete a minimum of five years’ university training in anatomy, physiology, pathology, general medical diagnosis and osteopathic techniques. Osteopaths are primary healthcare practitioners and are trained to recognise conditions which require medical referral. They are also trained to perform standard medical examinations of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous systems.