The Chiro Lounge offers a variety of Chiropractic techniques – each chosen specifically for you.
The choice is based on a combination of what we believe will serve your body and healing best and it is also guided by what you feel comfortable with.
We know from experience that some people love to be manually adjusted, some love the drop table, some the activator and blocking and everyone loves the cranial work.
Our techniques include:
Thompson Drop Table
Activator and Pelvic Blocking
Sacral Occipital Technique (SOT)
Diversified
Pediatric Adjusting
Pregnancy Adjusting and Websters Technique
Chiropractic is a natural vitalistic approach to health that deals primarily with the relationship between your spine and your nerve system. Every message to your body travels via your nerve system (brain, spinal cord and spinal nerves) this important system is protected by your spine.
Day to day stressors in our environment such as physical stress, chemical stress and emotional stress can cause interruption to the normal communication between our spine and nerve system. These imbalances prevent the clear flow of information along the nerves from our brain to our body.
As chiropractors, we are trained to specifically analyse and adjust your spine where required to clear these imbalances and allow your spine and nerve system to function at its best.
A healthy relationship between the spine and nerve system can help anyone at any time of their life, regardless of age, condition or symptoms.
If you’ve never visited us at the Chiro Lounge, you might be wondering what to expect when you come for an appointment. Rest assured you are literally in good hands, this is what we’ll do:
CHAT: When we meet we will sit down and discuss your health goals.
Your chiropractor will perform a thorough physical assessment and necessary tests.
Looking at your posture, muscle strength, neurology, biomechanics and your environmental stressors. All of this gives us a clear picture of how well your nervous system is adapting to your lifestyle.
We will refer for x-rays if required.
PLAN: Your chiropractor will go through the results of your examination and then the fun part is designing how you would love your life to be and what level of commitment you will put in to achieving that.
Together we will set a plan and begin the journey to abundant health.
ADJUST: Chiropractic adjustments will allow your nervous system to transform from its current state to a new way of functioning.
Each adjustment will unlock stress and dysfunction allowing your body to go about healing itself - the body loves to be in balance and work in harmony - it was designed to be that way.
A variety of techniques are available to you.
New Client Consultation - Adult, Baby, Child $110
ACC New Client Consultation - $110
Chiropractic Adjustment - Adult $54
Chiropractic Adjustment - Baby and Child $47
ACC adjustment - $40
Reactivation/Transfer* $80
Family Fees Please email us for information
*Reactivation or Transfer fee applies in place of adjustment fee if:
You have not received chiropractic care for 6 months - you will require a re-exam to determine your current nervous system health.
You are transferring to us from your current chiropractor.
ACC
We are an ACC registered provider. If your visit is the result of an accident or injury your appointment and x-ray may be subsidised.
Initial Consultation $110
ACC surcharge $40
Cancellation and Missed Appointment policy
As we run a wait list practice - the appointments are very sacred, so we would be grateful if you can give us advanced notice if you can’t attend your appointment.
We ask that you give us plenty of time for any changes so that we can attempt to replace your booking.
If you miss your appointment without notifying us, it will cost you 50% of your appointment fee.
Thank you for your consideration with this.
During your pregnancy, there will be many physiological and hormonal changes as your body prepares for the birth of your baby. Chiropractic can help you better manage the changes as your pregnancy progresses.
Your centre of gravity moves - increasing the lumbar curve and causing extra strain through the lumbar spinal joints and pelvis.
Your shoulders can round forward from increased breast size, placing strain on your mid back and rib cage, which can affect your breathing and digestion
Your neck can fall forward placing tension on the base of your skull and along your spinal cord.
As your baby grows, they can push up into your ribs, placing pressure on your bladder or pubic bone and get themselves stuck in an unideal fetal position.
Pelvic misalignment can alter the opening and expansion of the pelvis, which is needed for birthing.
Optimal fetal positioning is extremely important to achieve the most effective birth outcome and reduce the cranial stress on the body while in utero. Websters Technique is used to align the pelvis and uterine ligaments to encourage this ideal positioning.
The Chiro Lounge is so passionate about adjusting babies and children as soon after birth as possible. It really does set up them up for the best start to heal and adapt to life outside the womb. With over 10 years of experience, Dr Christy and Dr Teri are highly skilled in pediatric adjusting.
The birth journey, whilst different for all, can be stressful on the newborn baby, so many parents have their newborns checked right away. We make gentle adjustments and corrections to remove any interference that could be contributing to your babies ability to heal itself.
We can see signs of imbalance by:
Breast latching issues
Preferring one breast over the other
Preferring to turn their head one way
Digestive tension and pain with gas
Difficulty winding
Flattening of the back of the head – plagiocephaly
Asymmetry of the face – one eye opening more than the other
Constant crying and irritability
It is important to understand that chiropractic is not a treatment for disease. It reduces nerve stress, a serious and often painless condition most children (and adults) have in their bodies. This stress left uncorrected can weaken the organ function, lower resistance, reduce healing potential and set up a body where sickness and dysfunction can develop.
As the children grow and develop there are primitive reflexes and milestones that need to occur at certain times of life. These show us that the brain is working in harmony and the connections are being formed.
Nerve and spinal interference can interfere with these developmental milestones. At The Chiro Lounge we track your child’s development to ensure these pathways are firing correctly. If not, we can support your baby with brain exercises to make sure these milestones integrate.
Signs of imbalance are:
Inability to have head control in a pull to sit position or when having tummy time
Not rolling
Commando crawling for a long period of time
Not crawling on all fours
Bum shuffling or crawling with one leg up.
Toe walking
Head tilt
Re occurring ear infections and immune challenges.
There has been a large movement towards a wellness lifestyle, with families discovering the value of all member of their family be strong and healthy, being able to live the life they love.
Imagine if your family had a proactive wellness plan that helps you all stay well and productive.
Many of our families love this idea – proactive health care rather than reactive. Setting up daily rituals to keep them thriving. Chiropractic care is a major part of their wellness plan.
Imagine if you never brushed your teeth, never drank water, ate fresh fruit and vegetables, or took your garbage bin out, or never washed your body- the effects of this would soon show with drastic effects.
We see these effects with family members when they first join us – years of tension and stress in their bodies, history of falls and accidents that were never corrected. Years of unideal posture. Years of over use of medications with no improvement in the symptom or health of the person.
If this is a goal for your family – please reach out, we would love to share with you how you can turn around any health situation and rebuild a vibrant thriving family.