Modern Chiropractic Clydebank

03/12/2024

🌟 What is Fascia & Why I Use Myofascial Release in Chiropractic Care 🌟

Fascia is a connective tissue that wraps around every muscle, bone, and organ, allowing smooth movement and providing support. When fascia becomes tight or damaged, it can cause pain, stiffness, and restricted mobility.

Chiropractic adjustments focus on alignment, but addressing fascia through myofascial release ensures deeper, longer-lasting results. By releasing tension and adhesions, this technique:
✔️ Enhances mobility & flexibility
✔️ Relieves pain & tension
✔️ Improves posture & alignment
✔️ Boosts recovery & circulation

Incorporating myofascial release with chiropractic treats the body holistically, ensuring optimal function and well-being.

Ready to feel the difference? DM or phone 07455 613 804 book your session today.

02/12/2024

Still time to get yourself or a loved one pain free before Xmas...

03/11/2024

Get someone you love moving again this season with a gift voucher.

Here at Modern Chiropractic I offer bespoke treatments specific to your needs and incorporate a variety of chiropractic techniques (that doesn't have to include any of the cracks), as well as trigger point muscle therapy, myo-fascial release, gait assessments, postural analysis and a health screen to check your heart (6 lead ECG) and more.

Contact 07455 613804 or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.

Traditional techniques with a modern approach

27/09/2024

✨ Why McTimoney Chiropractic is Different – No Cracks Needed!

Did you know that chiropractic care doesn’t have to involve those loud, crunchy cracks? 🤯 McTimoney Chiropractic offers a gentle, effective approach that aligns your body without the noise. 💆‍♀️

Here’s why it’s a game-changer:

🔹 Gentle Adjustments: Using precise, light, and swift movements, McTimoney realigns your spine and joints without forceful manipulation. Perfect if you’re a bit nervous about traditional chiropractic!

🔹 Holistic Approach: McTimoney not only focuses on your spine but also considers your whole body, promoting natural healing and long-term wellness

🔹 Pain Relief: Whether it’s back pain, neck tension, or headaches, McTimoney helps alleviate discomfort by restoring proper alignment—helping you feel balanced and energised

🔹 Safe for Everyone: Suitable for all ages, from babies to the elderly. It's a gentle, non-invasive method that caters to every body type

Experience the benefits of McTimoney Chiropractic, where healing doesn’t have to come with the snap, crackle, and pop. 🌟

If this is something that interests you, please get in touch.

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27/09/2024

✨ Why McTimoney Chiropractic is Different – No Cracks Needed!

Did you know that chiropractic care doesn’t have to involve those loud, crunchy cracks? 🤯 McTimoney Chiropractic offers a gentle, effective approach that aligns your body without the noise. 💆‍♀️

Here’s why it’s a game-changer:

🔹 Gentle Adjustments: Using precise, light, and swift movements, McTimoney realigns your spine and joints without forceful manipulation. Perfect if you’re a bit nervous about traditional chiropractic!

🔹 Holistic Approach: McTimoney not only focuses on your spine but also considers your whole body, promoting natural healing and long-term wellness.

🔹 Pain Relief: Whether it’s back pain, neck tension, or headaches, McTimoney helps alleviate discomfort by restoring proper alignment—helping you feel balanced and energized.

🔹 Safe for Everyone: Suitable for all ages, from babies to the elderly. It's a gentle, non-invasive method that caters to every body type.

Experience the benefits of McTimoney Chiropractic, where healing doesn’t have to come with the snap, crackle, and pop. 🌟

If this is something that interests you, please get in touch.

02/06/2024

It's so important to get the proper curve in the lower part of the spine: imagine a thick spring as your spine with a bowling ball sitting on top of it (your head). If the spring had a fault in it, it wouldn't be able to support the bowling ball properly. This is bad posture.

Did you also know that bad posture can also cause issues in your feet and ankles?

If you stand like you do normally, how do you feel the weight in your feet? Do you feel like most of your weight is on the toes? A study (Breul, 2006), suggests that when standing normally, 60% of your weight should be on the heels. When there's too much weight on the toes, it affects the lower half of your body and can result in complications and a visit to the podiatrist.

Now try moving your shoulders and head back. Do you feel your weight shifting to the heels better?

Understanding where your weight is distributed in your feet is really important, especially in sports like golf and boxing but even more to anyone who wants to keep their body healthy.

27/05/2024

The best way to know if you have sciatica is thinking about the type of pain you have.

Electrical, burning, pulsing going down one or both legs. These can describe the sciatica pain. It can be along with a numb feeling, sometimes going below your knee and even into the sole of your foot.

The pain you're feeling in your legs is likely coming from higher up. It can be as simple as a tight muscle or can be from an accident where there's been movement in your lower back (if it's been a recent injury and you've lost any bladder control or have numbness in your groin, treat it as an emergency as it could be cauda aquina).

If you feel like you need to be seen, we can quickly identify the location and offer treatments that can help. By taking the pressure away from the affected areas, this often reduces the sciatica pain and we can get control of the situation.

The right chiropractor will know exactly the correct amount of force to apply and the appropriate angles at which to put these forces. Everything we do will only help...it's your body that does the healing!

If you're struggling but aren't at the stage of making an appointment...look up exercises like 'sciatic nerve flossing' or the 'figure 4 stretch'. These should help.

Please follow for more.

You can contact us through Instagram, Facebook, by calling 07455 613 804 or say hello at the .holisticwarehouse

22/05/2024

Fibromyalgia is a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body.

As well as widespread pain, other symptoms of fibromyalgia include increased sensitivity to pain
and muscle stiffness, difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, which can make you feel very tired, problems with mental processes (known as "fibro-fog"), headaches, feelings of frustration and low mood

It's as important to check exactly what the pain ISN'T, as it is to work out what the pain IS. It's very common to think ALL your pain is "just the fibromyalgia" when this probably isn't true.

With a full consultation and gentle adjusting, it's possible to take away the pain that isn't fibromyalgia. Once you start learning more about how your body functions, we can work together to get a handle on your non-fibromyalgia symptoms.

Then, the fibromyalgia flare-ups can be isolated and treated independently.

12/05/2024

Over 10 million people in the UK have arthritis (NHS Inform).

Most likely found in people over 40, it can also occur at any age as a result of injury, or can be linked with other joint related injuries such as gout.

Most commonly seen in the hands, spine, knees and hips, osteoarthritis (the most common) begins when the cartlidge lining starts to roughen and thin out. The tendons and ligaments then need to work harder. This then causes swelling and the formation of bony 'spurs' called osteophytes.

This is where the pain and stiffness you're experiencing come from.

If you're looking for a non-medication way to take the edge of those painful joints, chiropractic can help in lots of different ways. From understanding what the arthritis pain is, realising what the arthritis pain isn't and right through to realigning and mobilising your bones, we can help here in Clydebank.

Contact us on Instagram, through Facebook, in the Holistic Warehouse or on 07455 613 804 anytime.

08/05/2024

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THE DIFFERENCE"

"I WISH I'D DONE IT YEARS AGO"

Mark has just started working in a factory with lots of manual lifting. He was concerned about getting through his probation with the pain and stiffness in his lower back.

We were able to target the areas where he was feeling it and after just the FIRST VISIT, he's feeling much better already.

Like most who haven't discovered chiropractic yet, he saw us as a last resort.

In a world where we're told to 'just put up with it', more and more people are seeing how chiropractic can transform lives and give you back your pain-free and natural mobility.

It can fit into your current care plans, and we're fully trained to diagnose your injuries.

If you're in pain, don't suffer in silence. Like Mark, you'll wish you'd done it years ago!

06/05/2024

05/05/2024

When I start feeling aches and pains, do I apply heat or ice?

This is a question I get asked a lot, and it can be broken down into these categories:

ACUTE INJURIES (LESS THAN 6 WEEKS OLD)

Do not use heat on acute injuries as the extra heat can increase the inflammation and even delay the healing process. Use ice as it will constrict the blood vessels which numbs pain, relieves inflammation and limits the bruising.

CHRONIC INJURIES (MORE THAN 6 WEEKS OLD)

Use heat. This will increase the blood flow, relax tight muscles and relieve aching joints that aren't moving properly.

MUSCLE STRAINS AND JOINT SPRAINS

Use a combination of ice and heat. Start off with ice to numb the pain and after any inflammation goes down switch to heat which will help relieve any muscle stiffness at the injury site.

HEADACHES

We have all had headaches. Ice soothes the throbbing pain and a warm heat wrap will relax the muscles in the back of the neck.

If you need any more information, would like a free screen to see how we can help or know you need to see a chiropractor, we can be found in the Holistic Warehouse in Clydebank.

07455 613 804