Chiropractic helps millions of people reduce pain and improve their health every year.
Chiropractic care is simple. It's natural. It recognises your body's ability to heal itself and it helps millions of people reduce pain and improve their health every year.
There are a number of different types of chiropractic care which your practitioner may use or prescribe when you visit Hobart or Kingston chiropractic clinics. Your Treatment Plan is customised for you. If you need more information your practitioner will be able to answer your questions during your consultation, or via the contact-us button, or our Facebook page.
Stage 1 Reduce Pain -Acute Care
Most of our patients initially undertake a course of chiropractic care when they are in a LOT of pain and are having difficulty performing their everyday tasks. They may have swelling, redness, or other inflammatory processes occurring. Patients in this acute condition are usually looking for relief. During this phase your visits are likely to be frequent and aimed at reducing pain and improving your symptoms.
Stage 2 Improve Function -Ongoing Care
After the acute symptoms have been reduced, our aim is to restore proper function to the area of concern. This will typically require regular, but less frequent, clinic visits than the acute stage. Patients are usually given exercises, stretches and other activities to do at home, at work, or during sporting activities. This type of chiropractic care may continue longer depending on your age, how long you have had the complaint, and how severe the problem is.
Stage 3 Stabilisation - Rehabilitation Care
Some patients have complaints that require intermittent clinic visits over a longer period of time where the emphasis is on changing spinal, postural and movement habits. This type of chiropractic care focuses on achieving the best possible long term outcome that will give you maximum function and health. Rehabilitative care is not just about pain relief.
Chronic Care
Chronic chiropractic care is given to patients whose complaints are typically complex, longstanding, and where the complaint has no acute or inflammatory symptoms. Patients who require chronic care are usually given exercises, stretches and other activities to do at home, at work, or during sporting activities. They still require clinic visits to assess progress but these are generally less frequent than with acute care.
Supportive Care
Some patients have conditions that they cannot fully recover from. They find that regular (eg monthly), or intermittent clinic visits (when their pain returns) are needed to keep them functioning and moving as well as possible. Our supportive care clients find that without regular treatments their mobility deteriorates and their pain returns.
Elective / Maintenance Care
Maintenance care is like having a medical check-up.
Some patients come to our clinics for check-ups to have their exercise and rehab routines checked
for form, to be upgraded, and to test the mobility, function and capacity of their areas of concern.
Any treatment given is based on the findings of the tests.
The frequency of these appointments is customised based on your age, condition, and personal health
goals.
Emergency Care
Sometimes things happen; and when you are in extreme pain, distressed, or uncertain of what to do, we are here for you. We keep emergency appointments available just for when things go wrong.
We also provide an after hours /emergency service. Call us on 0407-876-714 if you have an emergency.
Performance Enhancement
Designed for the elite sportsperson, or emerging athletes, our chiropractic performance enhancement service utilises the full range of chiropractic tools and testing and measuring to improve your PB’s. This approach often requires a co-operative approach with other professionals such as sports physicians, exercise physiologists, and psychologists.