Although what I do shouldn’t necessarily be considered “ethical chiropractic” as it’s just chiropractic, it’s worth mentioning that most chiropractors are honest and exemplary health providers. Still, unfortunetly there is a minority of chiropractors who use particularly unethical and dishonest practices. They typically use the same “modus operandi”, so with some due diligence you can hopefully avoid the “bad apples” and experience the full benefit of chiropractic treatment.
Pain is complex and often influenced by various factors such as physical, lifestyle, and emotional aspects, it’s almost impossible to effectively treat long-term pain in 10 minutes for most pain sufferers, this is why they will often need treatment multiple times a week or regularly for months. They will usually make very misleading claims about their treatment, such as being able to realign spines, fix posture, restore neck curves, etc.., most people would be hesitant to pay $80-$90 for a 10-minute treatment that at best offers the placebo effect in regards to alignment or posture and who’s pain may have gone away on its own after 2 or 3 months without treatment.
Kieran has a 3-treatment policy, if you are not well on the way to recovery by the 3rd visit he will discuss with you, your progress and the potential of referring you to another provider with a different set of skills or a GP for further investigations. Kieran does not use x-rays, makes misleading claims about his treatment, and doesn’t try to get you to sign up for long-term “corrective care” or “rehab programs”.
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Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a 5 year university degree specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of the musculoskeletal disorders and injuries with particular emphasis on the spine. The adjustment is the hallmark of chiropractic and is what is commonly known as “cracking” which is a very specific technique to the facet joints of the spine to restore proper movement, function and reduce pain. Chiropractors are taught muscle and orthopedic testing procedures to help diagnose musculoskeletal conditions as well as extensive human anatomy and physiology.
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Spinal and Deep Muscle Manipulation
Kieran began studying remedial and sports massage in 2005 and has continually added and refined his skills, discontinued treatments he felt weren’t effective and has now developed his own unique style of massage & muscle therapy that combines several disciplines such as sports massage myotherapy (SLM), Stecco Method, trigger point therapy and myofascial release to name a few. These combinations of skills and techniques combined with chiropractic is not offered anywhere else in Australia, and makes it one of the most wholistic and complete muscle and spine treatments.
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Cupping and Dry Needling
Similar to cupping, Chinese medicine was using acupuncture long before dry needling started to be used by western therapies although the training, theory and philosophy is very different, however, the technique of inserting very fine needles is very similar. Dry needling is often used at trigger points or “knots” to help ease pain. Kieran uses dry needling sparingly as he has found the hands on muscle work and cupping is more effective for most people, and only uses it in very specific cases to improve outcomes.
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Pregnacy Chiro and Massage
Cupping was first used in Chinese medicine and is now also used by western trained therapists as a complementary treatment to massage for the muscles and fascia. A cup is placed on certain area’s or points on the body, usually at the site of pain and corresponding area’s of tension and tightness, using a hand held pump a vacuum is created and the muscles and fascia are drawn into the cup creating a localised area of stretch and blood flow to help relieve muscle tension. Kieran will often put the cups on one area while simultaneously treating another area of the body so your in effect getting multiple area’s treated at the same time.
