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Health Hub Chiropractic

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Health Hub Chiropractic

Holistic, Corrective Chiropractic Care. Multiple locations across QLD

Teneriffe - 3/113 Commercial R Shop 3 113 Commercial Road, Teneriffe

09/08/2025

🔥 Why your pain might be the best thing that’s ever happened to you…

It’s not the villain — it’s the alarm. 🔔 🚨
It’s your body’s way of saying: “Something’s stopping you from functioning at your best.”

❌ Ignore the signal → you’re just covering up the problem.
✅ Listen to it → and you can prevent breakdowns before they happen.

📚 A large 2018 clinical trial in JAMA Network Open found that adding chiropractic care to usual medical treatment improved both pain and function in just 6 weeks.

💪 At Health Hub Chiropractic, we focus on restoring and maintaining how your body works — so you can move, live, and perform at your peak, long after the pain is gone.

💬💬 Comment “FUNCTION” and find out 3 everyday habits silently wrecking your posture, energy, and performance — that you’re most likely doing as you read this.

📲 Link in bio to book your performance check.

05/08/2025

Your C6 is always smiling 😃 but it might be the reason why you’re not ☹️

That unique, smile-like shape belongs to your C6 vertebra, but its position in your neck is no laughing matter 🤣 Thanks to modern “tech neck” lifestyles, the C5-C6 area is the #1 spot for advanced degeneration and stress.

This constant strain doesn’t just cause pain; it puts pressure on your nervous system, and studies show this can directly impact your mood, energy, and emotional well-being.

That’s why a functional assessment is so crucial. Chiropractors are specifically trained to analyze the motion and alignment of each vertebra, like C6, to help restore its proper function before issues worsen.
While it’s best to see a professional, you can support your smiling C6 daily:

🔹 Lift your head: Keep your ears aligned back over your shoulders.
🔹 Take screen breaks: Move and stretch every 30 minutes.
🔹 Breathe deeply: A simple way to calm your entire nervous system.

It’s time to give your spine a reason to smile back 😊

References for claims made:
* C5-C6 Degeneration: Yamazaki, T., et al. (2007). The Most Frequent Level of Cervical Spondylosis. Spine.
* Posture & Mood: Kim, D., et al. (2015). Correlation between forward head posture... and psychological factors in young adults. Journal of Physical Therapy Science.

02/08/2025

Dr Oscar in his zone

28/07/2025

When I talk about the brain-spine connection in my clinic, I’m not talking about a philosophy. I’m talking about measurable neuroscience 🧠

A key study in the peer-reviewed journal Neural Plasticity answered the question: can a spinal adjustment actually change the brain? Using EEG to measure the brain’s electrical responses, the answer was definitive.
The data showed that after a SINGLE chiropractic session, there was a significant change in the electrical activity right in the prefrontal cortex—your brain’s command center for focus, mood, and emotional regulation.

This is concrete proof: improving your spinal function can directly influence how your brain perceives and processes the world.

This research is why my focus is always on the nervous system. The adjustment is the tool I use to help restore the integrity of that vital communication channel. The goal is to allow your body to do its job more effectively.

If you’re ready for an approach that’s grounded in real data, I invite you to book an initial assessment at my Brisbane clinic. Let’s see what’s really going on.
The link is in our bio.

Study Reference: Lelic, D., et al. (2016). Manipulation of Dysfunctional Spinal Joints Affects Sensorimotor Integration in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Brain Source Localization Study. Neural Plasticity.

26/07/2025

What do rotten apples have to do with your health? Everything. 🍎
We loved this analogy from Fran Drescher: you don’t fix a sick tree by treating each individual rotten apple... you go straight to the 𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗦. 🌱
For years, we’ve been conditioned to think of health in reverse:
👉 Got a headache? Take a pill.
👉 Back pain? Slap on a patch.
👉 Feeling tired? Grab another coffee.
That’s just treating the apples. It’s a temporary fix that never addresses why they’re showing up in the first place.
Here’s the core of it:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁.
This system is the foundation of your health, controlling everything from healing to energy. ⚡️ Foundational research continues to explore the neurophysiological effects of chiropractic care and its influence on the nervous system, which is at the heart of our approach. 📖 (Ref: Pickar, JG. The Spine Journal,2002).
Our job is to help you nourish health at the source, so your body can do what it’s designed to do: express its full potential. ✨
Ready to find your root cause? Tap the link in our bio to book your initial consultation! 🔗

10/07/2025

Your nervous system controls every cell in your body — including how you handle stress.
Evidence shows spinal adjustments can help reduce pain and tension, which may support a calmer stress response by keeping your nerve signals flowing clearly.
Simple, safe, and backed by decades of care.

02/05/2025

“Is it joint… or muscle?
What if it’s both?”

Most people separate the two.
But your body doesn’t.

Muscles, joints, fascia, discs, nerves — they’re all part of one system, controlled by your brain through your nervous system.

When a joint isn’t moving properly, muscles tighten to protect it.
It’s not random tension — it’s a smart adaptation.

Massage might help the muscle.
But if the joint’s still stuck, the tightness returns.
It’s not just a muscle problem — it’s a movement problem.

Yes, if you’ve torn a muscle or have severe arthritis, that’s more structural.
But most ongoing stiffness and tension?
It’s your brain trying to compensate for poor joint movement and faulty feedback.

That’s where chiropractic steps in:
We restore proper joint movement — and that impacts way more than you think:

• Muscles (tension + tone)
• Joints (alignment + load)
• Fascia (gliding + mobility)
• Discs (pressure + shock absorption)
• Nerves (communication + function)
• Posture (form + stability)
• Breath (diaphragm control)
• Even digestion + immune regulation (through the nervous system)

Your body works as a system.
So your care should too.

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30/04/2025

⚡️⚡️⚡️They told you it was just a crack⚡️⚡️⚡️
But the science says it’s a reset for your nervous system.
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(For the nerds: HVLA spinal adjustments alter afferent input and influence central sensorimotor integration pathways.)

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Better brain input = better output.
That’s why people move smoother, feel stronger, and react faster post-adjustment.
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(For the nerds: SEP studies show increased N30 amplitude—reflecting improved sensorimotor integration in the premotor cortex.)

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We’re not guessing. We’re measuring.
These effects aren’t just clinical “feel-goods”—they’re backed by neurophysiology.
🧬📊
(For the nerds: fMRI and EEG show post-adjustment activation in prefrontal and sensorimotor regions.)

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Here’s what the research says:
• Haavik & Murphy (2007) – N30 brainwave spike = sensorimotor precision
• Lelic et al. (2016) – Prefrontal cortex activation (EEG)
• Holt et al. (2019) – 64% strength gain from enhanced cortical drive
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(PMIDs: 17137836, 27047694, 31047349)

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Spinal adjustments don’t just feel good.
They literally change brain performance.
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(For the nerds: We’re talking measurable cortical modulation—not placebo.)

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We’ve got more where that came from.
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26/04/2025

🔄 CHIROPRACTIC-ONLY, SEGMENTAL RESET
Only chiropractors are trained to deliver precise, segment-specific HVLA thrusts—targeting the exact joint causing dysfunction. Here’s what happens immediately after your adjustment:
1. Proprioceptive Barrage:
High-velocity thrust floods paraspinal muscle spindles & Golgi tendon organs at the adjusted segment, causing a spike then a brief pause in firing—calming overactive muscle fibers.
(Think: your muscles get a quick “wake-up call,” then relax.)
2. Reflex Reset:
That same segment-specific thrust suppresses the H-reflex (α-motor neuron excitability ↓) for ~60 s, resetting protective muscle spasms.
(Your body’s knee-jerk reflex takes a mini-break so tense muscles ease.)
3. Sensory Gating:
The burst of signals travels to the brain, attenuating the N30 SEP peak by ~20–30 % for ~20 min—filtering out “static” for sharper body awareness.
(Like noise-canceling for your nervous system.)

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22/04/2025

Your spine — from an engineer’s perspective.

Think of it like a mechanical structure: designed to carry load, distribute stress, and move with precision.

But what happens when one segment breaks down?
Dysfunction follows load.
Areas of degeneration become weak points. Force redistributes.
Other joints compensate — and that’s where dysfunction spreads.

This isn’t just theory.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) — the same method engineers use to test bridges — is now being used to model the spine.

Research by Shin & Yoganandan (2023) shows how FEA simulates spinal stress and predicts failure patterns, revealing that breakdown isn’t random — it’s engineered by imbalance.

That’s why chiropractic care is so specific.
We don’t adjust everything. We adjust exactly what needs to move.

Because when you restore motion at the right joint, in the right direction, with the right vector — you change the system.

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Sources:
• Shin JH, Yoganandan N. A guide to finite element analysis models of the spine for clinicians. J Neurosurg Spine. 2023;40(1):38–44.
https://thejns.org/spine/view/journals/j-neurosurg-spine/40/1/article-p38.xml
• Wang J, et al. Integrating finite element analysis and physics-informed neural networks to predict lumbar spine biomechanics.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666548425000186

20/04/2025

Chiropractic doesn’t just “crack” your spine. It restores the precise joint-by-joint motion that your body needs to function.

Muscles move joints.
So when degeneration fuses joints or motion is lost…
You’re no longer functioning — you’re compensating.
And that’s where dysfunction spreads.

Chiropractic uses the vertebrae to move joints, restoring motion that influences muscles, ligaments, fascia, and nerves.

You don’t lose function overnight.
You lose it one joint at a time — and we help you get it back the same way.
• A 2007 study showed that cervical adjustments altered sensorimotor integration in the brain, supporting changes in how the nervous system controls movement and stability (Haavik-Taylor & Murphy, Clinical Neurophysiology)
• A 2024 RCT found a single lumbar spinal manipulation significantly improved proprioception and reduced pain in both healthy and chronic low back pain patients (Nyirö et al., medRxiv)

Start restoring what degeneration steals — one joint at a time.

18/04/2025

You service your car every 10,000km…
But when was the last time you checked your spine?

Your spine takes on more impact, stress, and daily wear than your vehicle ever will. Yet most people ignore it — until there’s pain, breakdown, or degeneration.

Here’s the truth:
• You can replace a car.
• You can’t replace your spine.
• And prevention is always cheaper than a fix.

Don’t wait for warning lights (a.k.a pain).
Get ahead of the problem.

Chiropractic is not about chasing symptoms — it’s about keeping your system aligned and resilient.

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3/113 Commercial Road
Newstead, QLD
4005

Opening Hours

Monday	2:30pm - 6:45pm
Tuesday	6:30am - 10:45am
	2:30pm - 6:45pm
Wednesday	6:30am - 10:45am
	2:30pm - 6:45pm
Thursday	6:30am - 10:45am
	2:30pm - 6:45pm
Friday	6:30am - 10:45am

Website

https://healthhubchiro.com/

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