What to expect on your first visit to the Attadale Chiropractic Clinic
You will be welcomed into our award winning building that won both state and national awards. There is an ample carpark, a hospitality bar, a children’s play area and spacious ambient waiting room.
Not knowing what to expect can often make any of us a little apprehensive and nervous. Hence it is a priority to welcome you to our friendly environment. We hope that you will be made to feel totally at ease. Our experienced staff try to do what it takes to ensure that your visit with us is a pleasant one and will if they can, answer any of your questions.
If you need reading glasses, use an appointment book or have spinal x-rays please bring these with you. Please arrive ten minutes prior to your appointed time to fill in our entrance form.
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Chiropractic’s main claim to fame is its success with back-neck pain and headaches leaving a public impression that is the extent of its role. New patients complete a health care questionnaire based on disruption to the nervous system.
We will discuss the array of symptoms that reflect the wide body influences of your spine related nervous system.
What was the original cause of your disorder and when did that happen? Replies often reveal how decades ago, an accident or injury permanently changed ideal spinal alignment and function, leading to today’s degenerative joint disease (DJD), and its symptoms. A few adjustments will not restore their youth, but may silence their symptoms.
Degenerative joint disease can be left to continue. Or, ongoing chiropractic care can be used in an attempt to improve alignment and function. As a chiropractor, it makes sense to me to include lifetime chiropractic care as an integral part of an overall health care plan.
The consequences of lifelong spinal abuse and neglect become apparent in seniors. Long neglected spinal mechanical and structural faults lead to unnecessary premature degeneration and chronic symptoms in adults. By neglect I mean that patients experience increasing subluxation related symptoms; aches and pains announcing something is wrong. Patients mask those symptoms with drugs rather than having a chiropractor locate and reduce their causes.
I have been a guest speaker at numerous service clubs to alert seniors to: “Listen to what your body is telling you!” Spinal care should be a lifelong affair.
Examination:
The spine is composed of motion unites, vertebrae and discs. They unite to form a flexible protective conduit housing your spinal cord and the nerves emitting from it. The focus of the examination is to define functional faults that may give rise to an amazing array of symptoms.
Many/most people have injuries that create a loss of spinal structural and mechanical integrity. The chiropractor may refer you to a local imaging centre for a spinal x-ray. Medicare usually rebates the costs. If for some reason, e.g. foreign tourist, they are not always rebateable the charges may need to be paid by the patient.
3 Reasons for Chiropractic Care
Our reasons for care is simple. Health is amongst our most valuable possessions. Its loss makes health’s recovery a priority. Millions of people who have lost some aspect of their health, have consulted chiropractors and recovered. Chiropractors offer two phases of care.
1.Relieve a patient’s current symptoms.
We understand that people have different expectations when they first visit our practice. Some are “whooshers” as soon as they feel better “whoosh” they are gone. Others are looking for management of an old underlying problem. Some seek to maintain long term, drug free optimal health.
So we start with relief care which involves:
Discovering the basic cause of your health problem.
Proposing a trial period of care to confirm and if possible reduce, or correct that cause.
Encourage patients to assist in their own recovery.
Clarify the value of maintaining a long term optimal drug free, healthy lifestyle.
2. Aiming to Retain a State of Wellness.
The world’s multitrillion illness industry greatly profits from an illness provoking lifestyle and as symptoms occur, treating them with drugs and/or surgery.
Chiropractors see true health as a journey, not as a destination. It attracts patients who seek to gain and retain optimal health, with no, or minimal use of drugs and/or surgery. Chiropractic puts nothing into, nor takes anything from, the body.
3. It is your journey, you are in charge.
As a patient you may choose to employ a chiropractor to aid your recovery from a health problem. The chiropractor and staff members serve your best interests. It’s your body, your own health, your future! We hope to make appropriate recommendations and work together to achieve your goals.
By making an appointment to discuss your health goals you can take the first step towards relief. Call Attadale Chiropractic Clinic today on 93305298