How chiropractic care can help you to maximise your health potential There are three major areas of your personal health history that directly affect your health potential, and I will discuss each of these in turn over the next three monthly newsletters. The first...

In 2007, an article in "The Chiropractic Report" (vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-8) provided a summary of the many studies that have evaluated patient satisfaction with chiropractic care. These studies (which include Australian research) are almost unanimous in reporting high...

Momentum is the term that deals with the physical property of matter in motion, or the impetus of a course of events. You will often hear the term used when you are watching team sports. It is truly one of the inexplicable aspects of sport, and one reason team sports...

With health, there are only two options, and it is important to understand what they are, and what the consequences of choosing either are, in order to make the most informed decision. The first option and its ramifications are summed up well in the phrase "ignore...

Every summer it seems inevitable that bushfires will leave thousands of hectares of the Australian landscape barren and charred and seemingly devoid of life. For weeks afterwards there are no significant signs of life, just blackened ground and charcoal-covered tree...

Most people know that carrots (which contain high levels of carotenoids) are good for your eyesight. I once saw an advertisement for a nutritional supplement to help your eyesight. The ad stated that to obtain the equivalent of four of their capsules, the daily...

Sport is one of the many life activities that is closely associated with the need for chiropractic care. Many professional athletes have been utilising the regular services of a chiropractor for many years. Recently, professional athletic teams have actually employed...

When they first begin receiving chiropractic care, some people are surprised at the simplicity and the brevity of a visit to the chiropractor. In this day and age, when so many people believe that ‘more is better’, and highly technical and sophisticated procedures...

When an individual begins to grasp the basic premise of chiropractic, that is, that we have a fantastically organised body that is capable of running itself and maintaining itself with very little outside help, the question arises as to why the body cannot correct its...

Subluxations (that is, slight misalignments of the bones of the spine) are caused by an external force causing the bone to misalign and begin to interfere with the nervous system of the body. Whether the external force is caused by a physical trauma, poor posture,...