Frequently Asked Questions

We’re no ordinary chiropractic! Our holistic treatments are decades ahead of conventional care. The traditional model of thinking about physical aches and pains is about X-Ray / MRI scans and looking for structural issues. The problem is that this approach fails to address the collective understanding of how our whole body moves and functions as a single unit. The prevalence of physical pain is huge. When symptoms persists longer than three months, they drive our nervous system to become more and more protective; the system feels danger for no apparent reason and sends warning signals - and those overly sensitised messages contribute to stiffness, tension, mechanical imbalance, aches and pains. Our treatment acknowledges that no structure in our body works in isolation. So we provide tailored holistic chiropractic care, functional posture training and personalised support. We also have a network of other healthcare professionals for our patients to access other specialism such as mental health, clinical nutrition and professional strength & conditioning development.

The question should never be about upright posture being “good” and slouching as “bad”. That said, the problem is when you’re no longer able to stay or get out of a posture comfortably. For instance if you’re sitting at a desk in a slouched position for hours and hours, years after years, one day when you’re trying to get out of that position, you get ‘stuck” and experience severe back pain. This is because your body no longer has the support it needs to regulate force and tension evenly throughout the entire body. When muscles are no longer able to move bones correctly, that’s how tension, stiffness, aches, pains, impairment and dysfunction happen. So a slouched posture is not inherently bad, but the problem is staying in a slouched posture regularly doesn’t teach you or your neuromuscular system anything about awareness and control of your posture.

YES. Once muscle function and balance are restored, alignment return to normal. To stay balanced and aligned, and to maintain muscle function, you will need to continue doing what got you those results in the first place. Maintaining a healthy musculoskeletal system is a lifelong practice, just like any other wellness activity. At Harvey Young Advanced Holistic Therapy, we provide you a personalised care plan to help you to develop the skills and mindset to take good care of your musculoskeletal system in the long term.

We help to treat the imbalance by restoring balanced function to the entire body - because no part of the body works in isolation. Most of the time, pain and discomfort are felt where the problem ends and not where the problem begins. A hip imbalance is a full-body imbalance, but maybe just more noticeable in the hips. Our personalised care plan can show you how to restore balanced function and proper movement to your entire body. The first step is getting started to book an initial consultation.

Posture Braces might be seen as a useful tool to kick start your journey of musculoskeletal health. However, bracing doesn’t teach you or your neuromuscular system how to function or move properly. If you only rely on bracing to do the work, the change won’t last long once you take off the strap.

Yes, but the narrative has to change. It is not possible to develop stability and strength in the cervical spine (neck) alone if your shoulders, mid-back, hips, pelvis and lower back don’t move well; you can’t build something on top of a weak foundation. So by improving how your entire body moves, you’re going to naturally give your neck the strength and stability that it needs.

Try to look at your pelvis position as a reaction to your movement problem. Your pelvis not maintaining a healthy alignment is likely due to your ankles, knees, hips and shoulders not functioning well around the pelvis. The pelvis doesn’t twist / rotate / shift / tilt for no reason. Because the pelvis alone is not the problem, so an approach that only targets the pelvis is not the solution. We can develop a personalised treatment programme to help you look after your entire body as a single unit - the way the body is designed!

If you have a genuine hyper-mobility problem, your treatment goal is not to maximise range of motion, because your body already has too much of that. For this condition, mechanoreceptors in the joint are sensing instability and altering signals to their nervous system. We can help to improve how your muscles stabilise your body and take you out of a cycle of extreme range of motion.

The first thing we need to look at is how your entire body moves and how it is preventing your body from healing. If HOW you move and WHAT you do is creating damage faster than your body's ability to heal, then that’s the fundamental cause of a herniated disk or lower back injury. We can’t emphasise this enough: problems don’t exist in isolation. If treatment is only focussed on the disk or the back injury, that alone wouldn’t be enough to achieve a meaningful outcome. When the entire body is affected, the whole body needs to be considered, otherwise changes will be short term at best because the imbalanced body may re-herniate the disk or damage other disks in the spine.

Massage and dry needling have some benefits, they may be able to down-regulate excessive overactive neuro-drive which could help your muscles move a bit better. But for most cases and the vast majority of people, just down-regulating the nervous system through these modalities alone is not enough to change muscle imbalance and how the nervous system recruit muscles to provide better support and the stability it needs to prevent injury. If your nervous system doesn't feel safe from your activities, your muscles will eventually get stiffened and tighten up again. While many therapeutic benefits of massage therapy are still disconcertingly uncertain and hotly debated, evidences do support massage therapy for anxiety and depression, which is important. At Harvey Young Advanced Holistic Therapy, we do not offer stand-alone massage therapy or dry needling services but do have a wide network of professionals that we can refer our clients to.

You don’t have to be referred directly by your GP unless you are wanting to claim your health insurance and your policy requires you to take that route. With your consent, we can write to your GP so the surgery can keep up to date about your care.

The core of a chiropractic spinal correction programme is repeated adjustments and regular posture training. Each of our follow-up treatment provides an incremental increase in the movement of restricted joints / imbalanced muscles. So while it is not uncommon for people to choose to enjoy the health benefits with regular therapy, others could seek treatment intermittently for sudden and short-term needs.

There are reasons our spine and joints can make those “cracking" noises when receiving traditional chiropractic treatment, but contrary to popular belief, the cracking is not necessarily help to resolve problems or pain. There are ways to align the spine and body without cracking. We use a research-based chiropractic procedure and our unique holistic method to determine WHICH body parts to correct, WHEN is the right time for correction and, importantly, WHERE NOT to apply correction. Our chiropractic procedure doesn’t require you to get adjusted in any unnatural or twisted position. Correction is applied on very specific parts of a relaxed body, so you can experience a more thorough chiropractic treatment without the need to be cracked. Our patients find this scientific approach refreshing, relaxing and, most importantly, EFFECTIVE!