What is Chiropractic?
Every single message in your body goes via your nervous system - that is your brain, spinal cord and spinal nerves. If there are disturbances in those pathways, those messages are disrupted, meaning your body can’t feel and function at its best, and therefore impacting on the way you experience the world.
Through safe adjustments, chiropractic care is all about ensuring a healthy, functioning spine, so your body is best-positioned for health, healing and vitality.
Chiropractic care: To support your body, restore balance and optimize performance and wellbeing.
Our approach is to look at more than the symptoms that are holding you back from feeling or performing at your best. We also consider long-term improvements and how physical stresses in your life may be contributing to imbalances in your body. Through personalized care plans that support your body, we help you get back to living your life with ease, energy and enhanced wellbeing.
Your treatment may combine a variety of chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue release, stretches or prescribed exercises. Our care recommendations are logical and based around science, chiropractic principles, and mobility principles from functional movement systems.
The spine and nerve system are integral parts of overall health.
By re-establishing specific posture and movement standards, it’s possible to take the strain off the spine to prevent long-term damage, to allow optimal function and to prevent long-term changes associated with poor posture.
As well as assisting symptoms such as lower back pain, neck pain, headaches/migraines, sciatica and tension, chiropractic care can help facilitate:
Improved posture
Increased flexibility
Improved sleep
Greater energy levels
Improved stamina and strength
Correcting dysfunctional spinal segments has also shown to change brain processing which may result in better coordination of arms and legs, better joint position strength and improved muscle strength.
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Put simply, chiropractic care aims to restore balance in the body so that it functions better.
What to expect.
Initial Consultation (45min)
We’ll discuss your health history, your concerns and your wellbeing goals. We’ll then undertake a thorough chiropractic examination, posture and movement assessment, neurological testing and X-rays where necessary. This consultation allows us to get a clear understanding of where you are at today, so we can create a plan that helps you explore greater wellbeing, long term.
Follow-up Consultation (30 min)
We’ll talk through our findings from your Initial Consultation, and provide you with our recommendations for a care plan moving forward. Your personalized program could include spinal adjustment visits, specific postural or movement exercises, or recommendations for other modalities that could support you; such as, yoga, pilates or massage.
Re-examination
Reviewing your progress towards your goals is important so we can understand where adjustments to your care may need to be made. We’ll generally schedule a re-examination around 6-12 weeks after your Initial Consultation, and evaluate how changes to your comfort, posture and mobility are tracking.
You’re in good hands
Dan Tuke
Chiropractor
Since graduating from New Zealand College of Chiropractic in 2010, Dan spent 9 years working as a locum chiropractor at practices throughout New Zealand and Australia. With this adaptability and exposure to a wide variety of patients and approaches, Dan has developed a broad, versatile skill set when it comes to supporting his own clients.
Now as the lead practitioner at Auckland City Chiropractic, Dan is passionate about helping Aucklanders from all walks of life move better, function well and live with greater wellbeing, so they can get back to doing the things they love.
San Yeom
Acupuncture
San is a qualified and experienced acupuncturist and Eastern medical practitioner. He was born in South Korea in 1967 and moved to New Zealand in 2002. A long time ago, San was an automotive engineer; however, a strong inspiration to find greater value in caring for human health led him to Eastern medicine, and he has now been practicing as an acupuncturist and herbalist for over a decade. San specializes in Sa-Am acupuncture which is a traditional Korean acupuncture. He is a human-centered and trustworthy healthcare provider.
Carmen Goodwin
Massage Therapist
Carmen first qualified as a massage therapist in the UK , graduating in May 2000. Since then she has taken the profession to many locations and countries around the world; from working with sports teams to training others to become massage therapists. With 20 years as a therapist, she has lost none of her enthusiasm and has treated more than 10 thousand patients in her full time career.
Carmen enjoys running and has experienced first hand what it means to get to the finish line of a marathon or trail run. As a massage therapist she has worked with triathletes, swimmers, cyclists, golfers and many other athletes ranging from professional level to weekend warrior.
