Spinal Manipulation

At ThePhysiotherapyDOC we LOVE to help people. We use many different approaches including massage, cupping, spinal mobilisations, and acupuncture.

What are Spinal Manipulations?

Spinal manipulations are a technique used by the Physio where they use their hands to provide a ‘thrust’ to a specific joint in your spine. The amount of force generated by the Physio depends on what is needed.

What is the ‘CLICK’? What does it do?

The ‘Click’, is actually called a ‘Cavitation’. A joint in your body is made up of connecting bones, joints are surrounded by a capsule containing a fluid call ‘synovial fluid’ this fluid acts in a similar way as oil does to a car engine….it lubricates. Inside this fluid are tine little carbon dioxide filled gas pockets. When the Physio provides the ‘thrust’ the gas escapes from the joint, creating the noise of a click.

Does it hurt?

No, it doesn’t hurt, patients tend to experience a feeling of ‘instant relief when receiving this treatment. It can be a bit uncomfortable when getting it for the 1st time as people don’t know what to expect, but once you have had it, you will be addicted and want it all the time.

We know how difficult it is to even get an appointment at the doctors, never mind seeing a Physio, and when you do, all you get given is painkillers and the odd exercise.

We are not a fan of people having to ‘survive’ on painkillers to get through the day, it puts you on to a road to nowhere and eventually ends in people having a significantly poorer level of quality of life. We are a HUGE believer in hands on treatment and we tailor our sessions to be mainly hands on because that’s what we are experts at, exercises and stretches can be done in your own time, when you’re with us, we get straight to work on easing your pain.

When pain happens, we know it’s very easy to just take some paracetamol and get through the day, or even just ignore it and hope it will just get better, go away, or be sorted by rest or a good night’s sleep.

Sadly, this is never the case, 1 of the things we find ourselves saying to patients all the time is how we still haven’t worked out the reason as to why we don’t get help straight away for our pain. If the car makes a grinding noise, its booked in the garage that day. Your phone screen flickers…. hello repair shop, but when our body aches, creaks, cracks and pops with pain, what do we do? “Ahhh it’ll be ok”. The body is the most important thing of all that we need to look after, and we don’t.

Pain happens for a reason, it’s our body’s way of alerting us to an issue that needs looking at, don’t ignore it, get it looked at, 1000’s of people who have given us the chance to help them have all said how they can’t believe how bad they were, and wonder how they got through the day at work, or survived on so little sleep because the pain they were in was taking over their life.