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DR EMMA GILLETT

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MCTIMONEY CHIROPRACTIC

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20-23 Woodside Place
Glasgow, G3 7QF

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Chiropractic A health care system based on over 5000 years of clinical evidence and research!

Chiropractic health care system The focus of Chiropractic Care is on the integrity of your nervous system.

Hampered communication
between your brain and your body can cause all kinds of health problems.
Put another way - Dis-Ease

Have you ever suffered with a phone line or a computer that’s ‘down’? A mobile whose battery is flat? Then you know what it feels like to be without full communication - to be subluxated. Things start to go wrong.

Your brain and spinal cord create the communication headquarters and super highway which your body relies upon to deliver the right information to the right places at the right times. Your whole function, your health depends upon this system.

Subluxation is a term chiropractors use to define an area within the body which is not functioning correctly. Usually it refers to a joint which is out of position but it can involve the joint, muscle and surrounding soft tissue. When you have a subluxation your body cannot communicate with itself fully and it will have to resort to compensating for the error. When you compensate your body is not functioning within it’s optimal state of health. The process known as homeostasis is compromised and this can eventually develop into a dis-ease state somewhere within the body. Whether that be an ache or pain, arthritic change, migraine or headache, lowered immune function etc. It can all be an effect of the subluxation.

Subluxation can be simply explained with the use of this model:

Subluxation Model

CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF VSC LANTZ C

You can insult your central nervous system in many ways. This very fine, complex, fantastic structure is sensitive to your day to day activity. Chiropractors put the insults you may receive into three categories.

Physical Trauma	Some of these incidents can be immediate, a fall, a car accident, a sporting injury, but some can take time to appear, repetitive strain, poor ergonomics, birth trauma.
Chemical Trauma	A more abstract concept but now understood as being equally as detrimental. Poisons and toxins, medications, drugs, smoking, alcohol, poor nutrition, allergy and infectious ’fallout’. All provide a chemical assault to the nervous system.
Emotional Trauma	A very abstract concept but think how strong the physiological effect that an emotional event can have on you. Does your heart race, do you blush, have you had butterflies or are you under constant stress? All of these are having an effect on your body. Sometimes it can be a wonderful one others can be of detriment.

Once you have sustained one of these traumatic events you may be subluxated, when you are subluxated your function is limited in some way and you are not in the best of health. Being in good health is not just being free of symptoms but a feeling of vitality, where you function at the ‘top of your game’.

IF YOU ARE SUBLUXATED……..YOU ARE COMPENSATING!

Within Chiropractic, the subluxation is the issue. This is our concern. We aim to pinpoint the position of a subluxation and correct it using specific adjustments. These adjustments may be direct thrust or indirect muscle/tissue release techniques, dependant upon the type and position of the subluxation. McTimoney Technique is well known for its gentleness, Cranio-Sacral Therapy is mostly carried out using only 5g of pressure (the weight of a 20p coin) and the technique applied to children is again refined and reduced to allow a child’s body to accept adjustment without causing harm.

We hope to see you soon!