Optimise Your Standing Desk and Decrease Sick Leave in Your Workplace

On Tuesday, 15 October 2024, Dr. Ryan Lamp was invited to present at WorkCover W.A. on optimising standing desks in the workplace, addressing a significant issue in corporate health: the risks associated with excessive sitting. His presentation emphasised that while sit-stand desks are widely available in many workplaces today, using them effectively requires more than […]

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A Holistic Approach: Treating the Whole Body for Optimal Health

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.

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Tips for Enhancing Sleep Quantity and Quality

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.

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Meet Dr Samara Klee – Chiropractor

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.

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Vertigo Explained in 90 seconds

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

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Low Back Pain Explained

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.

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Cervicogenic Headaches

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.

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Tossing and turning in bed?

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.

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Pain linked to Depression

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.

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Going barefoot is best

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.

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How diet affects our mood – Sugar

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.

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Why is walking good for you?

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.

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Sculpture by the Sea

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.

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Harvard Med School backs Chiropractic

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.

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Science proves you are what you eat

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

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Welcome to the clinic

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.

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Lamp Chiropractic; Ice pack

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 […]

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Lamp Chiropractic; Touch Toes stretch

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.

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Lamp Chiropractic; Piriformis Stretch

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.

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Lamp Chiropractic; Neck Stretch

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. […]

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Lamp Chiropractic; Rhomboid Stretch

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 […]

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Postural Problems Becoming an Epidemic in Children

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.

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Knee pain? Have your pelvis checked!

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.

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Lamp Chiropractic welcomes new female Chiropractor; Dr Kate-Lyn McIntosh

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.

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Considering Surgery? READ THIS!

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.

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Are you one of the half of all parents who administer incorrect doses of Ibuprofen and Paracetamol?

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

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What’s causing your neck pain?

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.

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Are you sick of popping pills?

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”

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Are you a knuckle cracker?

Does cracking your own knuckles give you arthritis?

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Technology is creating lifelong health issues with our Children

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.

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What is the ‘popping’ sound?

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.

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Lamp Chiropractic; Toodyay

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.

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Is sitting the new smoking?

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

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Life begins at 50

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.

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You are texting your way to back pain

Great article on cbs

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