ABC Technique
Posture, corrected at the source
Advanced BioStructural Correction (ABC) is a full-body, manual method of correcting and optimising your postural biomechanics, from the top of your head to the tips of your toes.
Rather than chasing symptoms, ABC assesses the structure and function of the whole body and corrects only what the body cannot self-correct.
Dr Daniel and Dr Regan, our ABC-qualified chiropractors, offers a full postural assessment, posture photos, and a tailored correction protocol.
Byron Bay · Est. 1993
How Posture Forms
How poor posture develops
We all experience physical trauma; it is unavoidable. Alongside obvious injuries and accidents, micro-traumas like long periods of sitting and repetitive tasks add up. Over time, this can create misalignments in the joints of your spine.
Some misalignments your body can correct on its own, and some it cannot. The ones it cannot place stress, weight and pressure on the surrounding joints, muscles and nerves.
Normally the body self-corrects where it can. But when a misalignment sits in a direction the body cannot reach, it compensates instead, shifting to take pressure off the site of stress or injury.
Across a lifetime these compensations layer on top of one another. Eventually the body becomes stiff and rigid, with reduced range of motion, and the most visible result is poor posture.
What It Looks Like
Signs of postural compensation
As compensations build, they begin to show up in the way the body holds itself:
The final straw is often pain. It can seem to appear out of nowhere, but it has usually been building quietly for years.
The Correction
Helping the body unwind
As ABC practitioners we correct only what your body cannot self-correct on a mechanical level. Once those misalignments are addressed, the compensating twists your body created to cope are no longer needed.
This lets the body unwind and release the patterns of tension that drove poor posture and discomfort, like a long sigh of relief. With each layer removed there is less pressure on the body, and many people keep unwinding well after their original symptoms have eased.
The Method
ABC is built on four principles
Advanced BioStructural Correction rests on a few simple ideas about how the body works, and how it heals.
The Body Can Heal
Your body has an innate ability to heal, self-evident any time you recover from a cut or a broken bone. ABC works with this, not against it.
But Not Everything
The body cannot correct every problem on its own. If it could, manual therapy would not be needed.
Correct Only What's Needed
ABC focuses on correcting only the misalignments your body cannot self-correct, and nothing more.
Posture Matters
Correct spinal alignment supports comfortable movement. Poor posture places ongoing stress on joints, muscles and nerves.
Why It Matters
Conditions linked to poor posture
- Asymmetry
- Breathing Problems
- Decreased Motion
- Disc Herniations
- Fatigue
- Headaches + Migraines
- Muscle Tension
- Numbness / Tingling
- Rotator Cuff Issues
- Degenerated Joints
- Dizziness (vertigo)
- Hip + Pelvis Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Shoulder Pain
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Digestive Disorders
- Dowager's Hump
- Golfer's / Tennis Elbow
- Low Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Sinus Conditions
- Tendonitis
- and more...
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02 6680 9991 · 11/7 Grevillea Street, Byron Bay