Peak Insights
Is Your Child ‘Normal’ or Are They Thriving?
You know that your child ’s health is the most important thing you can give them and that its your job to nurture that power and to help it grow and develop. What if someone told you that what you, as parents, do before your child is born influences their ability to...
Persistence Guarantees Success
Persistence: the fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. Persistence is the essential difference between success and failure, so it would make sense to spend some time developing the vital quality of persistence. Here...
How is your connection?
Relationships can be the most rewarding and the most frustrating things in life. They reward us when they fulfil one of our fundamental human needs - connection. We are social animals and feeling connected makes us feel loved, worthy and together. Relationships...
Beginners Mind
Our lives can seem to be so complex that it can be tough to do new things. In our search for balance, connection, performance or inspiration old attachments, associations and hang-ups can often make it difficult to start something new or stop something old even though...
2016 in review and what’s to come in 2017
2016 was a busy year for us here at Peak Chiropractic Centre. Here's a review of what we did and a look into what 2017 will hold for you. January Yvonne started with us as the new front desk angel. It’s hard to believe that she has only been with us for a...
The 12 Facts of Chiropractic: Know Your Body
We've created our own version of The 12 Days of Christmas - The 12 Facts of Chiropractic, in celebration of the festive season and to help you get to know your body better. When you read this, have that famous tune playing in your head ("fiiiive gold rings") and...
Idleness = Productivity
Idleness...There is a very specific feeling I get when I know that it’s time. When I start hopping from one task to another without finishing any of them, I know it’s time. When I find it tough to make even the simplest decision, I know it’s time. When I feel this...
Chiropractic and Stroke – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Every few years a story surfaces that is serious in nature and deserves our attention. This is not a new story and those with experience have seen it come and go many times over the years. This issue usually surfaces when someone is a victim of a rare type of stroke...
Can You Reset The Cycle?
Life is made up of many cycles. If we look at our life cycle, from the time we are conceived the embryo develops into our complex body containing trillions of cells. As our bodies change and develop from birth to old age, we go through several stages of life. During...
How to be more resilient – like Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is an amazing adaptable and resilient character, isn’t he? Matt Damon demonstrates the boyish good looks, the muscular body, the martial arts and the technological skills in an enchanting way. In the face of explosions, riots, betrayal, gunshots,...
Recent Posts
Vomiting – a different perspective
From a certain perspective vomiting can be seen as a problem. From another, it could be seen as an expression of health. Imagine you and I were to go out and we both have a chicken salad where the chicken was undercooked. Now imagine you ended up vomiting, but I...
A-Z of Chiropractic
In September every year we celebrate Chiropractic’s Birthday (16 Sept 1895) which is closely followed by World Spine Day on 16 October. To celebrate these two milestone events in Chiropractic, just for fun, we thought we would put together an A-Z of Chiropractic....
Strong Foundations Create Certainty.
Foundations (noun): a basis (such as a tenet, principle, or axiom) upon which something stands or is supported. When it comes to being certain about anything in life, foundations are incredibly important. When we don’t have the groundwork in place, any small challenge...
Women and back pain
Back pain in women has many potential causes. Several causes are more common (and can be exclusive) in women, while others can happen to anyone. Back pain is the leading cause of disability in the world affecting movement, performance at work, engagement at home and...
