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At Lamp Chiropractic, we take a comprehensive approach to chiropractic treatment. We don’t just focus on the typical back, neck, and middle back pains, we also examine the entire body structure in relation to treatment.

The results of thousands of studies emphasize that there are no biological functions that do not benefit from a good night’s sleep. The relationship between sleep and pain, as well as many other chronic illnesses, is well established.

Welcome Dr Samara Klee to the Team at Lamp Chiropractic. Click on the video link to learn more about Dr Klee and the changes to the operating hours for both Rivervale and Toodyay Clinics.

Dizziness and Vertigo are very common conditions that patients present with at our Chiropractic Clinics.

By far the most common condition we see at our Clinics is Back Pain. About 4.0 million Australians (16% of the total population) have back problems right now.

Headaches are extremely common in today’s society, and while you may consider them a normal part of life, they don’t need to be. Infact, they are a sign your brain has reduced oxygen supply. Cervicogenic HA’s are the most common form of Headache.

Tossing and turning in bed? Waking frequently? Waking tired?
If your joints lose their “lubricant” they literally grind and cause pain. If this occurs, your body compensates 24/7 and that’s often why you can’t rest properly.

Much research has been conducted into the link between pain and depression. Chronic pain leads to depression and depression leads to a greater pain response.

I remember when I was a kid, we always ran around in bare feet, sure my brother kicked a shovel one night when we were running around the garden and needed several days in hospital, but apart from that, the risk was minimal and probably still is.

For a long time people have found a link between eating certain foods and their mood, however more recent evidence has emerged supporting this theory.

In the last hundred years or so, we have gone from a lifestyle of being very active and upright, to now being very inactive and spending far too much time sitting.

Not sure if you’re aware, but there’s this magical sculpture display on now at Cottesloe beach until the 20th of March… which means it finishes this weekend.

This recent study published by the prestigious Harvard Medical School about chiropractic treatment and it’s benefits for back pain, migraines, neck pain and whiplash and how it also incorporates education patients and teaching preventative measures.

Our fast paced lifestyles and resultant conditioning to eat fast foods and processed foods is leading to more than obesity.

Welcome the Lamp Chiropractic, here is a short video about our clinic. Lamp Chiropractic is a family friendly clinic, with very approachable staff who are here to look after you. Please feel free to call the clinic and one of the friendly staff will be able to advise you further, should you have any questions.

Attached is a demonstation of how to use your icepack. Your icepack is used to reduce inflammation before bed and should be used for the first week of treatment. In the first week we recommend application twice nightly (roughly at 6pm and then again 40mins before bed). The second week of use will be as […]

Your Touch Toes stretch is designed to be done as directed by your Chiropractor. He/She would have explained why they are necessary as part of your treatment and maintaining your adjustment in the future.

The piriformis stretch is designed to be completed as directed by your Chiropractor. He/She would have explained why they are necessary as part of your treatment and maintaining your adjustment in the future. This stretch keeps motion in the joints in your low back and hips.

Attached is the stretches required as part of your treatment process. The neck stretch is designed to be completed as directed by your Chiropractor. He/She would have explained why they are necessary as part of your treatment and maintaining your adjustment in the future. The neck stretch keeps motion in the joints in your neck. […]

Attached is the stretches required as part of your treatment process. Your Rhomboid stretch is designed to be completed as directed by your Chiropractor. He/She would have explained why they are necessary as part of your treatment and maintaining your adjustment in the future. The rhomboid stretch helps keep motion in the joints of your […]

School kids spend much of their day sitting down with poor posture and carrying heavy backpacks. When they get home they spend even more time sitting with bad posture studying and using technology.

When you look at the human skeletal system a rotated pelvis causes the legs to rotate also. Walking around like this means that the muscles of the leg need to activate to guard the rotational stress on the knees.

Dr Kate-Lyn McIntosh has completed her induction course and is now practicing. Along with her Rivervale and Bentley shifts, Dr Kate-Lyn will be opening Saturdays in Toodyay.

This article is written by a Sydney surgeon Dr Harris, who has come forward to explain that he has performed many surgeries in his career that he knew didn’t work, or were not clinically indicated in the first place.

Results show that too often parents are using ibuprofen and paracetamol to bring children’s temperatures under control.

Unfortunately our modern lifestyle creates greater pressure on all the joints of our body, and over time this increased pressure will develop to a point where the joints are being damaged and this is where pain comes from.

The amount of times I hear in the clinic;

“I’m having low back pain and it’s got that bad now that the tablets aren’t working anymore”

Does cracking your own knuckles give you arthritis?

In the past 10 years, the Lamp Chiropractic Clinc has seen a change in children patients from 1% of the practice to 6% and its steadily increasing.

During an adjustment we manipulate a joint lengthening the joint space. this reduces the pressure within the joint causing some of the gases that are dissolved in the synovial fluid to form a bubble that rapidly collapses on itself. It is this process that creates the ‘popping’ sound.

After 32 years in the Toodyay community and a career spanning half a century, Chiropractor Bob Mattin, 75, is handing over his practice to his former student, Dr Ryan Lamp, 37.

At Lamp chiropractic we tell all our patients about the negative affect sitting has on the body and how it affects our biomechanics.

You may think that it is normal to have back pain as you age and that you just have to deal with it and accept it is a part of life. Pain is a symptom, it is the way your body tells you where and how bad your problem is.

Great article on cbs