Our Technique

ABC stands for Advanced Biostructural Correction. It is a system of analysing and adjusting the body that produces very consistent and predictable changes in posture and body alignment, as well as providing great symptomatic relief in the majority of cases.

In our busy lives, everyday stresses, strains and occasional traumas can push bones out of their ideal alignment. The body will automatically try to correct this, using muscles to pull the bones back into position. However, sometimes bones can be pushed out in such a way that the body can’t correct with normal muscle pull, because it has no muscle to pull in the right direction needed to correct it. It will be left stuck out of place, causing tension and pulling on surrounding muscles, ligaments and tendons, and interfere with normal nerve function. These misalignments that the body can’t fix are called subluxations.

Because subluxations can cause such great interference to the normal function of the body, it will try to deal with them as best it can. This usually involves the body using muscles to pull other bones out of place to counter-balance the things it can’t fix. These self-created misalignments are called compensations.

As more subluxations develop and more compensations are created to deal with them, the body becomes twisted up over time, like a tightening spring. Eventually this tension will result in more and more limited function, slumping posture, and eventually pain.

A chiropractors job is then to locate the bones that are out of place that the body can’t self correct (subluxations), and gently adjust them back into position. This allows the body to untwist the compensations it created, resulting in better posture, freer movement and function, and significantly less pain. This process is known as unwinding.