Better Life Chiropractic

About

Practising for over 20 years, we are one of the very few clinics in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne that utilises a modern form of therapy known as Network Chiropractic.

With Network we focus on releasing adverse tension that has accumulated in your nervous system (NS) and adversely affects the function of your spine and muscles and many other systems as well. Releasing this NS tension naturally allows muscles to relax and balance, and spinal stiffness, distortion and posture to normalise.

Why is this important? Well, we know that approx 70% of back pain comes from strained muscles and tendons largely due to excessive tension in the muscles. This excessive muscle tension is controlled through the NS and it is by releasing the NS tension that the muscles will then naturally relax back to their normal resting tone. In this state the muscle/tendon is not nearly so likely to be injured and clinically we find that injured muscles heal more quickly.

Conversely, even if the muscle injury heals, if the tension remains in the muscle, it is still predisposed to further injury. In fact, once injured, muscle is more likely to re-injure due to the deposition of fibrotic (scar) tissue which is not as functional as normal tissue. This why we often hear about athletes who have, for example, hamstring injury after hamstring injury after hamstring injury. And these may even be career ending problems.