THE Balanced BLOG

This year, Spinal Health Week 2016 runs from 23 to 29 May with the theme ‘Back Your Inner Athlete’. Every day more and more Australians experience disabling low back pain, neck pain and headaches, limiting their ability to work and engage in an active healthy life. One explanation for this is the impact an increasingly sedentary lifestyle has on postural fitness. Think about all the hours you spend each day sitting at work or school, on a computer or other mobile device, wa

As a practitioner I am passionate about what chiropractic does. Sometimes I'm very good at expressing it, and sometimes I think everybody...

Your hearts a little racy, your stomach doesn't feel like it's working, your palms are a little sweaty, your mouth dry, you are not sleeping well.. what could this all be?? Is it? No.. It can't be... YES it's STRESS! Now I hear it all the time. "I'm stressed because.....I'm so busy because..." . Life is such that we don't know our tail from our head. And I am definitely NOT immune to the BUSY rat race. So why am I writing about the BIG S word. Well because it affects y

I have a confession to make. I. love. magnesium. Why do I love magnesium? Well, I notice a difference when I don’t take magnesium....

Not so long ago, in a social setting, I encountered proud father showing his darling baby girl to his friends. A comment was made about her strong leg muscles, the proud father in response said, “Yeah of course- she probably will go straight to walking” I realised this could just have been a proud father thing to say, but really, is there an underlying understanding that walking sooner is better than crawling? This has me a little concerned. As chiropractors we see many chi