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Stand Up For Your Health – Your Body Will Love You For It!

Have you ever been told that you need to stand up for yourself? Well this is very true in more ways than one! You need to stand up for your health! We are built to be upright and our bodies and cardiovascular system work much more efficiently that way.

Approximately 60 per cent of Australian adults do less than the recommended 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity each day, so the less sitting or lying down you do during the day, the better your chances are for living a healthy life.

Suffering from Muscle Immobility and Pain? Try Myofascial Release Therapy

Remedial Massage is a very popular treatment due to its wonderful therapeutic benefits, focusing on the body’s musculature and soft tissue to relieve tension and pain. It is a diverse therapy consisting of a number of different massage techniques such as Myofascial Release Therapy, which works on damaged or sore muscles, soft tissue or joints.

Before discussing the benefits of Myofascial Release Therapy, let’s look at what the Fascia System is.

Fascia is a strong thin elastic-type web of connective tissue (similar to a ligament or tendon), which surrounds every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel and organ to the cellular level in our body. This supportive tissue is literally the biological fabric that holds our body together!

In its normal healthy state fascia is a relaxed and flexible web, however, when restricted…

FREE Health Conference: Super Foods

We invite you to our Free Health Talk Series# 2
A very informative night presenting: “The world’s most complete super food”
Wednesday 27th March 2019.

Do you suffer from…
Lack of energy throughout the day?
Difficulty keeping your focus?
Poor digestion and elimination?
Difficulty managing stress?
Excessive hunger or cravings?

The answer is in nutrition.
Our Chiropractors will be talking about this interesting topic on Wednesday 27th of March. Click to find out more.

Holistic Health – Treating Your Mind & Body as One

Empowering Wellness Clinic, Burleigh is committed to helping our clients restore their health, by offering a range of holistic and natural therapies which are individually tailored to their needs.

The philosophy of holistic health focuses on the mind and body as one, with a whole-body approach to health issues. As Socrates wrote – ‘the part can never be well unless the whole is well.’

We believe that the entire person is made up of interdependent components and if one part of the body is not functioning well, all the other parts will be affected. Therefore, if people have imbalances (physical, emotional, or spiritual) in their lives, it can negatively impact their overall health.

By avoiding the temptation to focus solely on the physiological symptoms of our patients, our practitioners at Empowering Wellness Burleigh can objectively look at the full picture, including environmental, emotional, social, and psychological influences affecting the patient.

Body Core Strength – Why It’s So Important to Our Health

Just like the trunk of a tree the core of our body helps us to remain upright and in shape. Whether we’re walking, playing sport, dancing or simply doing housework – a strong healthy core makes everything function better.

As a person becomes increasingly out of shape, they often lose motivation and avoid exercise simply saying they are just too tired. But unfortunately, they don’t realise that the less active they are the weaker their body core becomes.

How a strong core helps us in everyday life
There are so many actions we do automatically without really thinking about it, such as bending over to pick things up off the floor, tying our shoe laces, carrying groceries and just the simple act of sitting down and standing up – all of which require good balance. As we age and lead a more sedentary lifestyle, we lose our agility and are more likely to experience stiffness and back and joint pain.

Is your pillow depriving you of a good night’s sleep?

Have you woken in the morning with nagging neck pain or a headache and simply wrote it off as having slept in the wrong position? It’s best not to ignore it as many health problems are associated with neck pain:

severe headache
nausea
dizziness
anxiety
depression
always feeling tired (even after sleeping all night)

Are you sleep deprived? We have a great solution!

Do you sleep soundly every night and wake up feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the day? If your answer is a resounding ‘No’ – You’re not alone!
Sleep is just as important to our health as a good diet and healthy exercise, yet many of us suffer from sleep deprivation at various times throughout our lives.Some of the most common causes include:….

Excessive caffeine intake
Snacking before bed
Too much alcohol
Over-stimulation (e.g. computer or TV)
An uncomfortable mattress and/or pillow
Stress (e.g. work or financial problems, relationship issues)
An injury or health issue

Introducing Cupping to our clinic

We are happy to say we are introducing another natural healing therapy to our Empowering Wellness Centre at Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast.
Chinese Cupping is an ancient technique used in Chinese Medicine to encourage the blood flow.
How does it work?
By encouraging blood flow to certain parts of the body, Cupping helps with many conditions. Click the tittle for the rest of the article.

Back To Basics Health Seminar Series #1

As a passionate holisitc health clinic, we believe in educating the Community to better understand preventative ways to health, for themselves and for their families.
On October we held a Free Health Seminar including topics such as: Naturopathy and coming back to basics for good health, Chiropractic and the Nervous system, Ancestral and Aboriginal cultures and their approach to health.
Stay in touch to be informed of next Free talks and Seminars.

The Benefits of Custom-Made Orthotics (Shoe Inserts)

Our feet are often taken for granted, but when you think about it they are our main form of transport!

They are the foundation of our body and play a crucial role in our stability, particularly the pelvis and the spine. Biomechanical dysfunctions of the feet can lead to issues ranging from heel pain through to hip and spinal problems.

‘Pronation’ is the part of walking and running that allows your body to absorb the shock of contact with the ground. As your foot hits the ground, it locks slightly to absorb shock and allow your foot to stabilise itself to propel forward for the next step. However, sometimes your foot rolls too far inward, known as overpronation, causing lower body pain in areas such as your legs, knees, hips and even your spine.