Do you do….?

I quite clearly don’t get chiropractic across well to some people. I take the blame myself, it’s not them. It has to be me. On an infrequent basis a patient will say to me ” I have this problem in my knee/hand/foot, do you do knees/hands/feet?”. Now, it would be easy for me to say “Of course we do!” and even be a bit indignant that they don’t know. But that would be foolish. It’s MY fault that they don’t. So this goes some way to starting to correct that lack of education on my part.

As chiropractors we’re trained to work with all the joints of the body and do extensive work with extremity joints as they’re known. It so happens that the joints in spine tend to develop more problems than those elsewhere and, because of the nervous systems involvement, are much more significant than extremities. As a result we get this reputation for “only doing backs”  well, we do a lot more than that.

Although most of our work IS on the spine this doesn’t mean, however, that we don’t know what to do with hands, feet, knees, elbows etc. There are a great many techniques at our disposal and we are well trained to be able to distinguish between the problems we can help and those that we can’t. You’d be surprised at the issues that chiropractic can help. Some rather irritating edicts from the advertising standards and our governing body prevent me from listing them , but give us a call, or better still, come in and see us. We’ll be straight with you and tell you if we can help. Because often the answer to “Do we do…?” is “Yes, we do!”

Till next time

Neil

Welcome to my blog.

I know there are millions upon millions of blogs out there and I’m honoured that you’ve decided to look at mine! If you want to find out more about me and my history in chiropractic, look at the about Dr Neil page at the top.

For this, my first entry as such, I’m going to outline what we’re about. This blog is designed to be a forum to bring you cutting-edge information about health and wellness in the 21st century. There’s a revolution starting in health care and this resource is here to help you find out the truth about how to be healthy. We’ll be covering such diverse topics as nutrition, exercise, the power of the mind in terms of your health and bringing news and comments about the big (and little ) stories that relate to your health. Clearly it’ll have a chiropractic slant, but it’s about much more than just that. It’s really not going to be all dry and boring either, there’ll be fun stuff too.

Welcome on board.

Yours in health

Dr Neil