Blog and Education
Education is a large part of our care.
We want to share our health tips and tricks with you to compliment your care.
Do I Need A New Mattress?
Here are some clues that it might be time for a new mattress! We spend 1/3 of our life in bed so a great sleep set up is essential for good spinal health.
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How To Use A Seat Wedge For Better Posture
Learn how a seat wedge can help your relaxed sitting posture.
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Golf and Your Posture
Is posture important to your golf swing? Absolutely!
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Research concludes that forward head posture has a negative impact on the function of the body
A 2020 systematic review (1) has supported our long held belief that forward head posture has a negative impact on the function of the human body. This is the first review of its kind.
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Twelve tips for Health Sleep
To help improve your sleep, Professor Walker has developed 12 tips for healthy sleep. They are as follows;
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New Research Shows Forward Head Posture May Affect The Brain
If you know anything about Melbourne City Chiro, you know we care about posture. Put simply the essence of what we do is to improve your posture in so that you body can work how it is meant to.
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Stop Chasing the Pain, Start Chasing the Cause
Musculoskeletal pain is one of the most prolific health problems in the modern world. In Australia alone, it costs billions of dollars per year.
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Your Window of Tolerance
Through everyday life our bodies experience a number of stresses and strains, occasionally creating misalignments. That’s why we see maintenance care as a healthy lifestyle choice.
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Three tips to help look after yourself during the silly season
With the added pressures that Christmas can bring it’s important that you continue to look after yourself. So I thought I’d give you some tips to help you start 2020 off right.
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Legend’s Board
There are huge benefits in life when we apply ourself consistently to worthwhile projects. This is not limited to the benefits of the activity itself but the often overlooked and possibly more significant impact on our p
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Reading in Bed
The Habit You Must Stop If You Want To Protect Your Spine. How many of you read in bed?
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If You Listen To Your Body When It Whispers You Won’t Have To Hear It Scream
I recently read this quote and thought it expressed exactly how I feel about my own body and how I wish people treated theirs.
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Build Core Strength With The Plank Exercise
The plank exercise is one of the most familiar core building exercises. The only problem is many people perform it incorrectly, reducing the effectiveness an...
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Build Core Strength With The Hollow Hold Exercise
One of our favourite exercises to build core strength is the hollow hold. This exercise has several progressions to ensure correct training and minimising lo...
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Build Full Body Core Strength With The Quadraped Exercise
The Quadraped exercise is a fundamental core strength building exercise that is excellent at building muscle stabilisers that support the spine.
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Dead Bug – A Classic Core Strength Building Exercise
In this video Dr Ben Coupe demonstrates his version of the Dead Bug exercise. This is a fundamental exercise that has multiple progression for the beginner t...
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How To Prevent Pain When Sitting On The Couch
In this video Dr Ben Coupe describes why couches can cause back pain and what you can do to prevent this.
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How to Get the Right Sleep Position Using the ABCA Pillow
This video is about to sleep better: How to set-up your pillow (using the ABCA Pillow) to fall asleep easier and wake with less aches and pains
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A Great Exercise to Improve Spinal Mobility Spinal Waves
In this video Dr Ben Coupe demonstrates Spinal Waves, an excellent exercise to introduce segmental motion into the spine and improve spinal health. It also s...
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Choosing the Right Fitball During Pregnancy
Many pregnant women use a Fitball during pregnancy. In this video Dr Sam Coupe describes how to choose the right size for you to get the best outcomes when u…
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The Principles Of Sitting Correctly
In the video Dr Ben Coupe demonstrates how to sit correctly. Most people don’t understand the fundamental principles of sitting ergonomics that when performe...
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How to Get the Right Sleep Position Using Only Towels
This video is about sleeping better and waking with less aches and pains. We demonstrate how using towels as a replacement pillow can create a great sleep se...
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Is Poor Posture Related to Osteoarthritis?
I’m sure that some of you think we harp on about posture. It’s not just because we’re chiropractic nerds who really love this stuff (although that is a big p...
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Bulletproof Your Posture
Sitting at an office desk for hours a day is the work reality for many of us. Unfortunately this often leads to some muscles being overused leading to excess...
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How to Minimise Injury When Gardening
One of my favourite times of the year is the start of spring. Melbournians all seem to come out of hibernation when spring hits and for many that means lots ...
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Do You Look After All Aspects of Your Health?
If you have been reading our articles over the last few years you will have noticed how varied the topics are. We include articles on nutrition, exercises an...
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What Does Your Typical Morning Look Like?
What does your typical morning look like? I know for me that I have had plenty of days that feel like you start on the back foot and spend the rest of the da...
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Is Posture the Reason Behind Your Knee Pain?
As a chiropractor, one of the most common complaints I hear about is knee pain. This is especially true as I adjust a lot of CrossFitters in my practice and ...
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Sit Better and Sit Less
It seems every time I write a post for this e-zine I return to issues around SSS. Sitting, Sleeping and Standing. They represent the home care rules for gett...
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Turmeric – the latest wonder spice?
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) has been used in India for at least 2500 years and is known to have antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying and carminative (gas ...
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Habits – how to form good habits and make them stick
Every day in our clinics we’re talking about habits – exercise, sitting, sleeping, diet, alcohol intake – and how these habits have an impact on how that bod...
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Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue
The modern life has a lot of advantages, things that were once laborious and complicated have become quick and easy. But there is a cost, everyday we are bom...
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Stress, Movement & Anti-Fragility
“You are as old as your spine.” – Chinese proverb If you are reading this, then by default you are spending most of your life in a technology-based society. ...
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Why We Don’t Recommend Orthotics
I’m sure most people are familiar with orthotics. They are the plastic moulds that go on the inside of your shoe. They are often prescribed by podiatrists bu...
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Do You CrossFit? This is Why You Need Regular Treatment
If you have been a regular client of ours you will inevitably know that most of our chiropractors do CrossFit. Sam, Richard and I have been consistently Cros...
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The Purpose of Proper Movement Preparation
What does the term “functional movement” really mean?
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How I Got Bounding Energy & Crystal Clear Mental Clarity in Days
If you haven’t heard of fasting then you need to. There is an important impressive and constantly growing body of research demonstrating how fasting can have huge heal…
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Hypnobabies
For those of you who haven’t chatted to me or don’t frequent the city clinic you’d likely be unaware that as I write this, my partner and I will soon be welc...
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Two Exercises to Improve Your Core
Most people are aware that good core strength is important to hir body. Whilst this is true our opinion takes into account other factors when measuring co…
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Do Slumped vs Upright Postures affect the Stress Response?
It’s quite common for clients report positive changes in mood as a consequence of care in our office. People don’t always know how to describe it so they usu...
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The Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen
The health benefits of organic fruits and vegetables have grown to become common knowledge in recent times (pun intended). Or perhaps it would be more correc...
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Exercise & Longevity – are they linked?
A quick test for you: can you sit down on the floor and then get back up, without using your hands or other supports? Go on, try it. I’ll wait.exercise an...
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Why Movement is Your Key to Good Health
We sit everywhere. It starts when eating breakfast, then travelling to work and for many of us sitting most of the day at work. After a long day we get home ...
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Is Poor Posture Causing Your Shoulder Pain?
Within the shoulder there are several tissues that are pain sensitive. For the purpose of simplicity this article will focus on the most commonly affected ti...
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Is Your Exercise Helping or Hindering Your Unwind?
It’s a tricky question. The answer for most of us is probably a bit of both. But that’s not a ‘get out of jail free card’ (an excuse to do nothing). Two thin...
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Study shows benefit of seat wedge for children
A study in England found that by implementing a simple seat wedge (just like the ones we use) there was a 58% reduction in lower back pain in children aged 1…
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The Barefoot Revolution
Spring is upon us! The sun’s out, the air is fresh. It’s time to get on those runners and start running again (if you put it on hold during the winter months!)
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How’s Your Posture Making You Feel?
We all know that our state of mind can affect our postures. When was the last time you saw someone who felt depressed or powerless and they adopted a slouche...
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Better Height, Better Heart!
Think your ABC adjustments are just taking care of your muscles, joints and discs?!
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Why Should You Squat?
The full or deep squat is one of the most important movements for us to be able to do and the ability to perform a full squat is a sign of good physical heal...
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Why is Sitting Bad for Your Back and How can you Improve It?
Spring is upon us! The sun’s out, the air is fresh. It’s time to get on those runners and start running again (if you put it on hold during the winter months…
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Is Your Pain Related to Poor Sleep? Tips on a Better Nights Sleep
A recent study from Great Britain has linked poor or insufficient sleep as a strong indicator for widespread body pain. Widespread pain is defined as that wh...
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Is Your Pain Related to Poor Sleep? Tips on a Better Nights Sleep (Copy)
“I think it’s muscular.” I don’t think a day goes by where I don’t hear this sentence by one of our patients, the inference being that what they are feeling ...
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Posture and Disc Problems
Our spines are essentially made up of vertebrae and interverbral discs. The vertebrae are there to provide a frame and the discs are there to provide a cushi...
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How to Protect Yourself Against Cold and Flu this Winter
I am a strong believer in the body’s ability to defend itself against germs. I believe that when I get sick it has more to do with my current state of healt...
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Your Pelvic Floor in Pregnancy
Exciting news for pregnant women!!
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How To Develop More Mindfulness
Over the last few years I have become more aware of just how important mindfulness is if you want to live a happy and healthy life. For the uninitiated, mind…
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My First Flotation Tank Experience
Continuing on my 2016 mission to test and try a variety of different health concepts, this month’s experience was my first delve into a flotation tank. I did...
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Living Your Best Life
I saw a patient the other day that was being adjusted as usual, answering my rapid-fire questions in her usual considered and thoughtful way, when she sudden...
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Podcasts
Lately we’ve had a number of adjustment conversations with people about the podcasts we follow (especially off the back of our recent Facebook videos of Ben ...
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Want to Loose Weight, Feel Energetic & Think Clearer? Eat Fat!
Those who have been in our practice for long enough know that we love testing and trying new health concepts. Last month’s experiment has been the Ketogenic ...
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Bouncing Back After Having Baby
Bouncing back after having baby (or more like the ultra marathon back after having a baby!).
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How Breathing Techniques and Cold Showers Can Improve Your Health
Richard and I were flying to New Zealand late last year to teach an ABC™ seminar and as usual we get talking about current health things we’ve been intereste...
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The Best Way to Assess Your Own Posture
“Breathe in, breathe out, relax and let you body slump.” As ABC™ chiropractors we can say these words up to a hundred times a day. Have you ever asked yourse...
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The How & Why of Meditation
I’d imagine most of us would be aware of meditation. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years but in recent times has gone from alternative to mu...
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The Power of Good Posture
With today’s sedentary lifestyle and its effect on our health, we need to look once more to the importance and positive benefits of good posture.
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“Clear or Fuzzy Headed?” – The Definitive Explanation
‘Clear or fuzzy?’ It’s something you’ve all been asked about after meningeal releases (the big stretches at the start of an adjustment) numerous times. Your ...
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Why You Should Be Sleeping On Your Side
New research has show that your sleeping posture can have an impact on your health beyond muscle and joint pain. The study was related to how the brain elimi...
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Squatting, are you doing it correctly?
Squatting is considered by some to be the “king” of exercises as it develops a full functional movement within most of the body while targeting large and imp...
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Good Posture Makes You Look and Feel More Powerful
I recently watched a TED talk by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy on power poses and the impact it can have on how you’re perceived and how you fe...
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Is Forward Head Posture is Causing Your Low Back Pain?
Yet another study has demonstrated the importance of posture. The 2015 study showed that correcting forward head posture made significant improvement in peop...
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Does Poor Posture Correlate with Depression?
A recent study has demonstrated those with depression experience “fuzzy thinking.” When I read this it immediately got my attention as many of you will know ...
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Sitting in a Poor Seat? Achy back? Try this simple pose!
So many of us sit for a living. Every day we’re at our desks for hours at a time, hunched over the computer-encouraging a head down, shoulders slumped positi...
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What is Endonasal Cranial Correction™?
I’d imagine that some of you will have heard of (or even experienced forms of) cranial chiropractic. Essentially cranial chiropractic focuses on misalignment...
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Should I Be Stretching?
Stretching has been prescribed to patients for many years by manual therapists of all sorts. The general idea behind stretching is that it helps to increase ...
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Should I Be Stretching? (Copy)
In recent times the public have been made aware of an increasing body of research discussing the impact of sitting on our heath, and the news isn’t good.
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What is ABC™ Unwinding?
If you have been a client at one of our practices for any length of time you’ll no doubt have regularly heard us discuss ‘unwinding.’ There may be some of yo...
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Osteoarthritis and Nutritional Supplements
Many people come to our practices having experienced the symptoms of osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease (DJD), as it is more correctly called. DJ…
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Pregnancy and ABC™ Chiropractic
Anyone that has been in the practice lately would notice we have two very pregnant women in our office. Kim our chiropractic assistant is due in early Februa...
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On Throwing Out Birkenstocks and Sleeping on the Floor
Birkenstock sandals were my stock standard Summer casual footwear for years. You know the ones, formed like a hard mould of your footprint. I even used to th...
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Posture – What’s the Big Deal?
Many of us had “that grandmother” who constantly nagged us to “stand up straight”. Was she just being a grumpy old granny, or was there something more to gra...
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Food Fasting – What’s it all about?
Fasting has become increasingly popular in recent times. Some of you may have personally tried fasting or at least know people who have. So what is it all ab...
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Your Life Depends On This Mineral
If you’re feeling run down, stiff or you just can’t seem to get a good night’s sleep, or if you find yourself tossing and turning with legs that ache, there’...
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Patch vs. Fix – Choose Your Care Wisely
Have you ever heard yourself talk about your back problem or your neck problem? Do you hear yourself saying it in a way that almost sounds like you consider ...
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Why Do I Have To Keep Coming?
Let’s start off with a classic chiropractic joke. “How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb?” “One, but it’ll take three times a week for f...
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Does Cracking Your Knuckles Cause Arthritis? (Copy)
If you haven’t said it you may have at least thought it. It seems this especially comes to mind for patients when we are going through the feet part of the a...
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Older Adults’ Posture May Predict Future Disability
The shape of an older person’s spine may predict their future need for home assistance or admission to a nursing home, according to a 2013 Japanese study app...
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Correcting your posture with ABC allows you to get out of pain and live life to the fullest. Schedule your first appointment with our team today.
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