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Who visits the Leixlip Chiropractic Clinic?
You are joining many of your family and friends who have chosen a drugless, safe, spinal approach to good health. The nervous system controls all bodily functions. The brain comunicates with the rest of the body along the spinal cord and nerves which pass through openings in the spine to organs and muscles. If the spinal joints are not working properly the nerves are not working properly and this can can contribute to a number of health problems. You dont wait until your car has broken down to have it serviced. Likewise it is a good idea to have your spine checked if you have a sedentary lifestyle even if you have no symptoms.
Sedentary Posture:
Humans have evolved from hunter gatherers, however since the 1950s our livestyle has become increasingly sedentary particularly since computers became an obligatory part of the workstation in the 90s. Up until 1985 the UK had 500,000 coal miners in work now there are only 5,000. The mining jobs have been replaced by sedentary office work, back and neck pain (fig1.1). Trauma injury is very rarely the reason people visit the clinic, usually its because they wake up feeling stiff benddown to pick up something and feel pain.
A survey by the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) in 2005 found that 83% of chiropractors saw themselves as health care practitioners dealing with the wellbeing of their clients. Unfortunately this is how chiropratic is perceived by the public. The medical research councils Meade study, showed chiropractic to be more effective for back pain than the NHS, as a result back pain and "spinal manipulation" has been very saleable to the medical profession and the public. Little research has been done on the physiological chages after a sppinal adjustment, due to a relationship between spinal joint nerve receptors and the central nervous system. However as you can see from the list below people visited the Park clinic with all sorts of problems. Spinal manipulation is not a cureall however improving spinal joint function may help conditions that have a spinal nerve element.
Patients who attended our London clinic in 2008 reported the following conditions in their history 
There is no suggestion that spinal care can cure any of these conditions however for a variety of reasons we find improving spinal joint function affects nerve receptors and does improve the quality of life of the vast majority of our clients. If you click the links there is plausable anecdotal evidence of people being helped. Many people continue to visit the clinic even when treatment has not achieved everything that they had hoped for, because they grow to understand how a healthy spine contributes to better health: better sports performance; an easier pregnancy or help people just to manage without taking pain medication.
Fionnuala's experience at our clinic:
My name is Fionnuala MacNamee; I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in February 2004 and underwent Mastectomy followed by Chemotherapy and Radiation. In February 2005, I had Breast Reconstruction which involved taking a muscle from my back. The operation was a great success in that the breast looked perfect but I was left with a sense of tightness in my back where the muscle used to be. I assumed that this was part and parcel of dealing with the operation and just got on with my life as best I could. 
I am a very active person and decided to do the Dublin Marathon in 2006, yes all 26.2 miles and trained very hard in the months coming up to it. I managed to complete the race and had a fantastic feeling of pride when I reached the finish line and accepted my medal. I had a nagging ache in my back and a friend of mine suggested visiting a chiropractor to see if the pain could be relieved. Boy was I glad of this advice.
I called into Leixlip Chiropractice Clinic and Mairead Breen looked after me. From the very first visit, Mairead managed to not only get rid of the pain but we agreed that she would commence work on releasing the tightness in my back. After 6 visits, the tightness was gone. I had fully expected that I would have to just put up with this tightness as a side effect of my breast reconstruction and am pleasantly surprised and delighted that this is not the case. As a result of this tightness disappearing, my quality of life has improved. I no longer am constantly reminded of the cancer as I don’t have any pain whatsoever so I can get on with my life. I did the Marathon t in Dublin and shaved 15 minutes off my finish time from last year. My training is going really well and with no back pain to be worrying about whatsoever.
Before I attended Mairead Breen, I had no idea that a few sessions with her would result in me feeling so well. I just thought that a chiropractor was a once off session to help realign a back problem. I now attend Mairead every 6-8 weeks in what we call “maintenance” I look forward to these sessions as they are therapeutic, painless and I always feel great afterwards.
I strongly recommend chiropractic treatment toall my friends and family and believe that people should not have to put up with pain. There is always a way round dealing with pain and for me, this safe chiropractic treatment is the very best way to go about it.
A GPs experience at our London Clinic
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