Our Chiropractic Services

The chiropractic services provided by Dr David Liew at his Chiropractic Health and Wellness Clinic relieve pain and restore function across multiple medical conditions and injuries – with no drugs or invasive treatments like surgery.

Our services include:

• Full chiropractic adjustment
• Chiropractic care for children
• Prenatal chiropractic
• Professional massage therapy
• Orthotics for feet

Many medics now recommend chiropractic services as complementary medicine, and patients at Dr David Liew’s specialist clinic enjoy the highest standards of chiropractic treatment that tap into the power of your body to heal itself.

Our chiropractic techniques also reduce stress on your inbuilt immune system, which frees up energy to effectively fight disease.

Dr David Liew’s chiropractic services adopt a holistic approach to improve your overall wellbeing by ensuring your body, mind, spirit, and emotions are working in harmony.

Full chiropractic adjustment

People of all ages come to Chiropractic Health and Wellness Clinic to get pain relief and treatment for many types of health issues, including:

• Backache
• Neck pain
• Sciatica

Chiropractic adjustment techniques entail spinal manipulation to correct misalignment or malfunction of vertebrae – the series of small bones forming your backbone.

The basic principle of chiropractic manipulation lies in the connection between spinal health and the body’s central nervous system, which controls every organ and cell in your body.

A key focus of chiropractic manipulative treatment is correcting a misaligned spine to lessen pressure on sensitive nerves.

Many of our patients are seeking spine pain relief, and Dr David Liew is a spine pain specialist in areas such as the treatment of slipped disc and spinal stenosis (the narrowing of spinal canal thereby putting pressure on the spine and nerves).

Common chiropractic adjustment techniques applied

Dr David Liew is an expert in spine chiropractic, skilled in many types of chiropractic adjustments, including:

• Direct thrust method (spinal manipulation).
• The gentler technique of spinal mobilisation.
• Chiropractic adjustments to treat damaged joints.
• Myofascial release to relive problems with the layer of membranes that connects muscles.
• Cervical distraction for neck problems.
• Spinal decompression to treat a herniated disc.

Benefits of spine adjustment

As well as problems in the back itself, chiropractic spine alignment can fix issues in other areas of the body and eliminate side effects such as fatigue, joint pain, and inflammation.

As a full body adjustment chiropractor, Dr David Liew provides much-needed relief for patients suffering from a range of ailments besides back and neck pain and headaches and migraine, including joint problems such as arthritis, high blood pressure, and asthma.

Further, chiropractic manipulation helps to maintain the equilibrium of your entire body, and this can ease stress, improve posture, lift your mood, boost your immune system, and allow you to sleep better.

What’s more, Dr David Liew practises chiropractic body reshaping – an effective alternative to costly cosmetic surgery.

After treatment, our patients typically report benefits such as:

• Less pain.
• Feeling more energised.
• Greater flexibility and range of movement.
• Improved health as a whole.

Chiropractic care for children

Studies in the US have shown that chiropractic is the complementary medicine parents seek most often for their youngsters.

This is because many childhood disorders respond well to chiropractic care for kids – a treatment option increasingly sought by parents who bring their youngsters to our chiropractic centre with ailments including:

• Colic
• Headaches
• Allergies
• Sleep disturbance
• Asthma
• Scoliosis

Your child’s development puts stresses on their body that can result in spinal problems.  Unless the problem is obvious, it can be difficult for parents to tell whether their youngster’s backbone is working properly.

There are, however, some signs that all may not be well with your child’s spine. Irritation of the central nervous system caused by spinal misalignment in a child can result in several disorders, including those listed above, plus:

• Ear infection
• Reflux
• Breastfeeding issues – for babies

Chiropractic treatment for scoliosis and infant torticollis

Chiropractic Health and Wellness Clinic specialises in:

Scoliosis in children

Scoliosis is the irregular curvature of the spine to the side. This can be a congenital problem but most often starts when youngsters are aged 10 to 15. In these cases, the condition can be caused by an infection or muscle spasms.

Signs of scoliosis include protruding ribs and uneven shoulders.

Infant torticollis

Torticollis (twisted neck) can result from a difficult birth or how the baby was positioned in the womb.

Left untreated, infant torticollis (also known as congenital muscular torticollis), can lead to contraction of the spine, misshapen skull bones, and restricted shoulder movement.

Dr David Liew has a remarkable 100% success rate in treatment for infant torticollis.

Making adjustments for infants and young children

The chiropractic adjustment techniques utilised by Dr David Liew will be modified in accordance with a child’s spinal condition and their age, weight, and height.

Being an experienced paediatric chiropractor, he would only apply light, fingertip pressure on young children – including babies and infants – to restore full function to spinal joints that have locked up and are interfering with the nervous system.

Chiropractic spinal adjustments can be particularly beneficial for youngsters because their backbone is still developing, so the spine will typically respond to chiropractic treatment far faster than that of an adult.

Our clinic’s paediatric care has been shown to enhance the growth of children. One boy, treated by Dr David Liew since 2013, shot up 15 cm (nearly 6 inches) over a 2-year spell.

Parents of our young patients say their children enjoy seeing our paediatric chiropractor and look forward to subsequent regular check-ups to help maintain optimal functionality of their spine and nervous system.

Prenatal chiropractic

A woman’s body has a lot to cope with during pregnancy, and this can cause health problems.

You may get muscle cramps, generally in the foot or calf, and you might frequently feel faint because of hormonal changes. Another possible issue during pregnancy is varicose (swollen) veins in the legs.

As a baby in the womb becomes heavier, it alters your centre of gravity and your posture adjusts to accommodate this shift. This can cause a misaligned spine or joints, resulting in an increased curve in your back.

The International Chiropractic Paediatric Association (ICPA) recommends that women get chiropractic treatment throughout pregnancy to maintain pelvic balance.

Pregnancy chiropractic techniques

Our prenatal chiropractic care provides an effective remedy for issues during pregnancy because it focuses on the connection between the spine, the central nervous system, and the reproductive system.

Dr David Liew applies chiropractic techniques that entail little if any pressure on the abdomen.

These methods include the activator technique – a gentle chiropractic adjustment using a small hand-held instrument to apply light pressure to the spine with a spring-loaded device that delivers a low-force impulse.

The instrument acts quickly so muscles are more likely to remain relaxed and not tense up and resist treatment.

Another chiropractic technique that’s helped many women during pregnancy is myofascial release, a hands-on treatment that entails gentle pressure on the connective tissue that supports muscles.

Myofascial release can restore mobility and ease pain.

As an experienced prenatal chiropractor, Dr David Liew will also advise you on exercises that are safe during pregnancy and on the importance of proper hydration and nutrition – essential for a healthy pregnancy.

Prenatal chiropractic care provides benefits

Common health issues during pregnancy that our experienced prenatal chiropractor can resolve include:

• Morning sickness
• Bleeding gums
• Headaches
• Back pain
• High blood pressure
• Heartburn

One of the biggest benefits of our chiropractic treatment during pregnancy is the stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system of both mother and child.

Also known as the rest-and-digest system, this function benefits the body by slowing the heart rate and increasing gland and intestinal activity. This results in less stress – the opposite of the body’s fight-or-flight response. A pregnant woman with diminished stress levels will share that with her baby.

Correction of a misaligned spine by a skilled pregnancy chiropractor like Dr David Liew can also:

• Control nausea.
• Ease back, neck and joint pain.
• Lessen labour and delivery time.
• Help to avoid caesarean delivery.

Professional massage therapy

Chiropractic massage therapy provides a holistic remedy for multiple physical and mental health issues and can result in faster recovery because it helps the body to heal itself.

Physical conditions that can be treated with professional massage therapy include backache, headaches, pinched nerves, and joint pain.

Our therapeutic body massage can also ease symptoms of mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, stress, and the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.

The techniques our masseuse use are predominantly:

• Deep tissue massage therapy – manipulation of deep layers of tissue, including supportive tissue of joints and muscles.
• Lymphatic drainage massage therapy – to boost the flow of lymph (part of the immune system) and flush toxins from the body.

Orthotics for feet

Problems with the complex mechanical structures of the feet are one of the most prevalent medical complaints, affecting young and old alike.

One of the most common foot problems is heel pain from plantar fasciitis. Other issues include flat feet, problems with the metatarsal bones in the foot, and bunions.

Foot orthotics is the medical field concerned with devices inserted into footwear to ensure balance and functionality and cushion the foot against impact.

In addition to orthotics for plantar fasciitis, bunion orthotics, arch orthotics (for flat feet) and metatarsal orthotics, our adult and children’s orthotics include orthotics for heel pain, orthotics for under- and over-pronation, and sport orthotics.