Is Chiropractic Safe?

IS CHIROPRACTIC SAFE?

Yes, Chiropractic is very safe.  In fact, Chiropractors have a remarkable record in comparison with other health professions, including the medical profession.  Since the first chiropractic adjustment in 1895, the chiropractic profession has rapidly grown to be the third-largest field of health care behind medicine and dentistry. In fact it is the LARGEST surgery-free, drug-free health profession in the world! A Chiropractor trains for 5 years at University to learn how to identify and correct “subluxations” (or misalignments of the spine that interfere with nerve function).  Our Chiropractors, Gray Moritz & Monique Damon are registered with the Chiropractors Board of Queensland (a body of the Queensland Government that monitors all health professionals) and are members of the Chiropractors' Association of Australia.  They are required to regularly attend seminars and workshops. They also keep up to date with advances in chiropractic and healthcare. 

There are many different techniques which are used to remove interference to the nervous system.  All of these techniques that we use at our practice are gentle and effective (and can be tailored to you…whether you are a newborn child or a 90 year old great grandparent!).  We use specialised techniques for babies, children and the elderly. 

Did you know?  In 1978, the New Zealand government conducted a 2-year commission into chiropractic, looking specifically at: 

• The practice and philosophy of chiropractic
• The scientific and educational basis of chiropractic
• Whether chiropractic constitutes a separate and distinct healing art

The NZ Government concluded that:  

• Spinal manual therapy in the hands of a registered chiropractor is safe. 
• chiropractors are specialists in biomechanics of the vertebral column and techniques of manipulation and mobilization of the segments of the vertebral column.
• Chiropractors are the only health practitioners who are necessarily equipped by their education and training to carry out spinal manual therapy.

If you would like to know more about the excellent safety record of Chiropractic over the past 110 years…Ask one of our friendly Chiropractors!