by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Fear That Keeps People from Getting Help Last month, a patient, a surfer from Bondi in his early forties, came in after more than a year of managing lower back pain on his own. He’d had chiropractic care once before, found the experience uncomfortable, and...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Sciatica Is Common, and Commonly Misunderstood A patient came to see me recently who had spent eight months working with a physiotherapist for what had been diagnosed as sciatica. She had an MRI showing a disc bulge at L4-L5, had been prescribed core exercises and...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Runner Who Kept Treating the Wrong Thing She was a 34-year-old who ran three to four times a week along the coastal path from Rose Bay to Nielsen Park. Lateral knee pain, consistently worse after about the 4-kilometre mark. She’d been told it was her IT...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Not All Headaches Are the Same, and That Changes Everything Last month I had a patient in her early forties come in after seeing two GPs and a neurologist over the course of a year. She’d been getting headaches three or four times a week, almost always starting...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Back Pain in Sydney: What I Actually See Every Day Growing up playing competitive tennis at a national junior level, I developed a personal and somewhat unwelcome familiarity with lower back pain early in life. That experience shaped why I eventually chose to...
