We are not just Doctors, our team are Certified Specialists in chronic pain solutions. We often see patients who sought out quick pain relief, or they received a wrong diagnosis for the cause of their pain.
3 Reasons to Visit the Advanced Therapeutic Centre:
1. Accurate Diagnostic Consultation - initial free 15 mins. phone consultation 2. We identify the real cause - the reason for your pain
3. State of the Art Pain Relief - we address your pain quickly
Your feet are the foundation of your body. When a small problem develops in your feet, it can cause a chain reaction of adjustments in your posture and walking mechanics, which can lead to long term painful conditions. Our prescription orthotics are biomechanical and medical custom-made to correct your specific foot imbalance. Custom Orthotics are most often helpful with foot conditions such as, bunions, flat or pronated feet, fallen arches, ankle pain, knee pain and low back pain.
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Ultimate Health
We are not just Doctors, our team are Certified Specialists in chronic pain solutions. We often see patients who sought out quick pain relief, or they received a wrong diagnosis for the cause of their pain.
3 Reasons to Visit the Advanced Therapeutic Centre:
1. Accurate Diagnostic Consultation - initial free 15 mins. phone consultation 2. We identify the real cause - the reason for your pain
3. State of the Art Pain Relief - we address your pain quickly
Vitality Better Sleep Improved Sex
Is your Brain focused on your Health? Interesting question! I guess that you have not thought about that before reading this question.
Research is showing that disease/ill health is a failure of the Brain to monitor your organs and systems effectively. Due to your poor eating habits, environmental and work stresses, your Brain becomes overloaded and cannot monitor your health as automatically as it once did. When this occurs, over time, disease/ill health occurs.
Would you like to help your Brain return to its’ optimal function? If you make this decision to utilize an advanced program of therapy, your Brain will better monitor the physiology of your organ/systems, returning them to normal and providing you with ultimate health.
When you begin on the road to ultimate health, you’ll notice a number of interesting changes such as having more energy, feeling healthier, younger, your face and body becomes more relaxed, sleeping becomes easier and more restful along with coping better with your daily stresses.
There is a program which has been used at the Centre for about 15 years. Now it has become so comprehensive and effective that I am very confident that it will make a significant difference with your health.
It is called NIS – Neurological Integration System. The NIS bases its treatment methods on the neurophysiology principle that the brain governs optimum function of all body’s systems. This in essence makes the brain, not the practitioner, the most knowledgeable and qualified to diagnose and correct your complaint. The brain controls optimum function, through its neurological circuitry. It is constantly receiving information from every facet of the body, and in turn sends back ‘fine tuning’ messages, many times per second. This means every cell, gland, organ, muscle, tendon etc in the body is constantly monitored via these circuits to the brain. Your Brain can monitor all your organs/systems and get them working in harmony again. This will get you on the road to optimal health. With the Brain in charge, the physiology of the organs/systems will return to better health. This is interesting, as the harmony between the Brain and the organs/systems return, your body begins to detoxifies/cleanse itself, returning each organ and body/system to better function.
To assist the process of your Brain and body/systems working in harmony again, you will be introduced to Patented natural products and other natural products, which can now be easily absorbed by your cells/organs/systems, which will give you Vitality, Better Sleep and Improved Sex.
The Patented Natural Products are:
A Stem Cell enhancer, which will release more of your body’s adult Stem Cell. This will restore and support your cell/organs/systems to normal function.
An Amino Acid which is easily absorbed into the system and helps to nourish your cell/organs/systems to normal function.
A Product that slows the aging process by helping to keep your genes healthy.
Dr. Don Fitz-Ritson has been using NIS and Patented Natural Products to treat and help patients with a wide array of conditions such as:
Fibromyalgia
Sleep/stress syndromes
Menopausal – hormone imbalances
ADD/ADHD
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome/Spastic Colon
Viral/Bacterial/Fungal Symptoms/Yeast Infections
Panic Attacks
Depression
Chronic Fatigue
High Blood Pressure
High Cholesterol
Female Fertility
Post Concussion Syndrome
Call today so you too can experience Ultimate Health:
Vitality Better Sleep Improved Sex
Rehabilitation
We are not just Doctors, our team are Certified Specialists in chronic pain solutions. We often see patients who sought out quick pain relief, or they received a wrong diagnosis for the cause of their pain.
3 Reasons to Visit the Advanced Therapeutic Centre:
1. Accurate Diagnostic Consultation - initial free 15 mins. phone consultation 2. We identify the real cause - the reason for your pain
3. State of the Art Pain Relief - we address your pain quickly
The Rehab programs were developed over 20 years of research and clinical testing. The programs for the cervical and lumbar spines have specific neural components which significantly improves their therapeutic efficacy. The Rehab programs and the laser protocols work synergistically together to provide pain reduction, healing and strengthening of the injured area in the most cost effective manner. The Rehab programs are sequenced and have 4 levels which takes the delicate injured area through gentle exercises. As pain is reduced and healing occur, the sequenced levels become more challenging for toning, strengthening and returning the neuro-muscular co-ordination to the muscles.
Muscles and How They Affect Your Nervous System
Muscle Tension
While contraction and relaxation are the principal actions of muscle, there is in fact a second “activity” which is called muscle tension. This is part of the muscle contraction process. The tensing of muscle is a fascinating phenomenon. It is controlled by the CNS-the brain. Because the muscle tone is controlled by the CNS, it can occur without our conscious awareness. Here are a few examples:
Muscles tense:
in preparation to move parts of your body, whether or not the movement occurs
when you become threatened mentally or physically
when you imagine doing some movement with your body to protect an injured area
when used inappropriately, such as sitting.
Under normal conditions, muscles have a resting level of activity. If you add weight to a muscle, like bending your neck to read this page, then the level of muscle activity increases. This occurs at the CNS level and the muscle level. The result is that more muscle fibers contract and the muscle strength increases. Over time if the muscle stays contracted, it becomes tense/weakened – a learned response.
As more is demanded of the muscle, the CNS and the muscle tries to contract even more in an attempt to generate more strength. But as muscles contract and get shorter, they also get weaker. As they get weaker, they fatigue even more quickly. So the more contracted and tense a muscle becomes, the weaker it is, and the quicker it will fatigue. To put it simply: they become ‘pooped out’ from being over worked.
New Thinking on Low Back Problems
New thinking on low back pain shows that when you experience pain, it is not from one cause. It is from a combination of factors which predispose the area to functioning improperly, thus eliciting pain. For example, how you feel about your occupation is proving to be a potent contributing factor in the development of low back pain. People who don’t like their jobs, or find them stressful have more back injuries and pain.
The diagram below shows some of the major factors causing spinal pain. This, of course, is excluding direct trauma to the spine.
Like cardiovascular problems, which slowly develop over time, so it is too with spinal pain problems – they also develop over time. When you do develop spinal problems, it is the body’s way of saying: “I am unable to cope any longer”.
Let’s look at how each of these contributes to the development of spinal pain problems.
Poor Posture
Poor posture can be caused by a number of factors. Some of the main ones are:
Sitting improperly in front of a computer daily. In time, this will cause rounding of the upper back and shoulders, awkward carriage of the head and neck, and flattening of the normal lumbar curve.
Wearing a heavy winter coat will cause rounding of the upper back and shoulders. Remember, you do this approximately four months per year. Carrying a heavy purse
ACTIVE RELEASE TECHNIQUE ("ART")
We are not just Doctors, our team are Certified Specialists in chronic pain solutions. We often see patients who sought out quick pain relief, or they received a wrong diagnosis for the cause of their pain.
3 Reasons to Visit the Advanced Therapeutic Centre:
1. Accurate Diagnostic Consultation - initial free 15 mins. phone consultation 2. We identify the real cause - the reason for your pain
3. State of the Art Pain Relief - we address your pain quickly
What is Active Release Techniques (ART)?
ART is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system/movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis elbow are just a few of the many conditions that can be resolved quickly and permanently with ART. These conditions all have one important thing in common: they are often a result of overused muscles.
How do overuse conditions occur?
Over-used muscles (and other soft tissues) change in three important ways:
acute conditions (pulls, tears, collisions, etc),
accumulation of small tears (micro-trauma)
not getting enough oxygen (hypoxia).
Each of these factors can cause your body to produce tough, dense scar tissue in the affected area. This scar tissue binds up and ties down tissues that need to move freely. As scar tissue builds up, muscles become shorter and weaker, tension on tendons causes tendonitis, and nerves can become trapped. This can cause reduced range of motion, loss of strength, and pain. If a nerve is trapped you may also feel tingling, numbness, and weakness.
What is an ART treatment like?
Every ART session is actually a combination of examination and treatment. The ART provider uses his or her hands to evaluate the texture, tightness and movement of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Abnormal tissues are treated by combining precisely directed tension with very specific patient movements.
These treatment protocols - over 500 specific moves - are unique to ART. They allow providers to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient. ART is not a cookie-cutter approach.
We are not just Doctors, our team are Certified Specialists in chronic pain solutions. We often see patients who sought out quick pain relief, or they received a wrong diagnosis for the cause of their pain.
3 Reasons to Visit the Advanced Therapeutic Centre:
1. Accurate Diagnostic Consultation - initial free 15 mins. phone consultation 2. We identify the real cause - the reason for your pain
3. State of the Art Pain Relief - we address your pain quickly
NIS Program is not a technique. It is a complete system that employs neurological processes. NIS Program assesses the body as an integrated being- that is, that all the systems in our body are related to each other and do not work in isolation. NIS Program tunes up all your systems so you function better. This is similar to a tune up for a car. The car functions better.
What does NIS Program treat?
Nothing per se. NIS Program is a facilitation system using the "brain"- as a "clearing house" to restore optimum function to all body systems. With this optimum function, the symptoms of ill health and disease can be resolved.
What is NIS Program's NIS?
Healthcare with NIS Program's® Neurological IntegrationSystem(NIS) has everything to do with the brain and nothing to do with the mind. It is important to make that differentiation. All the principles behind this system of treatment are based in neuroscience.
NIS bases its treatment methods on the neurophysiology principle that the brain governs optimum function of all the body systems. This in essence makes the brain, not the practitioner, the most knowledgeable and qualified to diagnose and correct patient’s complaints. Practitioners using NIS in their practice will be evaluating them to investigate the status of all your body’s function (glands, organs muscles, tendons, ligaments) as they work together - from the neurological point of view.
The brain controls optimum function, through its neurological circuitry. It is constantly receiving information from every facet of the body, and in turn sends back ‘fine tuning’ messages, many times per second. This means every cell, gland, organ, muscle, tendon etc in the body is constantly monitored via these circuits to the brain.
When each of us were born, we were born with a DNA template unique to each of us. That template determines 'normal' and optimum function. The brain operates within the parameters of that template. The parameters of that template represent our individual tolerances. Muscles, glands, tendons, ligaments etc all have tolerances. The tolerances of one person are very different to those of the next. When the body ‘breaks down’ – physically, pathologically, chemically or emotionally, this means that there are tolerances that have been exceeded. Now symptoms of pain and illness start. There is now some body function that is working at a lowered potential.
NIS uses a set of prioritised treatment protocols that assess the function of all the body’s systems, and all the factors that have or could translate themselves to symptoms. These protocols will identify aspects of physiology that are not functioning to the potential of the respective individual.
In evaluating the function of the body’s systems from a neurological point of view, this means the underlying CAUSES of symptoms are being addressed and not the symptoms themselves. NIS Program’s NIS leverages the brain’s profound ability to restore the body and all its systems to full potential.
The brain must be in control of ALL body function to:
1. Resolve the real underlying causes of pain, ill-health and disease
2. To get sustainable result for complaints
3. To get the body back working at optimum potential as it should be for that individual
Why Does The Body Break Down In The First Place?
The human body is born with maximum tolerances. One principle of neurophysiology is, the brain operates within a set of parameters, dictated by the unique DNA of each of us. When all body systems function within our individual ‘template’ of parameters we have great health.
From time to time stresses cause our individual tolerances to be exceeded. They can be physical, pathological, chemical or emotional. This is when the body will start to show symptoms of pain and/or illness. An exceeded threshold may be thought of as a broken circuit. The brain is no longer in full ‘communication’ with certain facets of function. What happens now is the body endeavours to compensate.
These thresholds are essentially thresholds of stress. The meaning of stress, and how each individual reacts to it varies. How it affects our individual health will vary. Our tolerance levels to the same stresses are different. Therefore what is stressful for you to the extent of affecting your health will be completely different for the person next to you. That is why some people will always be bound to catch the latest bug that is going around, when another person can be subject to the same environment and never catch it.
What NIS Is NOT about
Is NOT a technique Is NOT kinesiology, cranial osteopathy Is NOT stressful to the body Is NOT…an alternative medicine modality Does NOT involve the mind Does NOT involve manipulation or invasive procedures Does NOT require drugs, special diets or homework exercises to be effective
What complaints does NIS help?
NIS will address the neurophysiological reasons behind the spectrum of complaints. This list is only a guideline to the broad areas we assess. Remember...because NIS is assessing and addressing the optimum function of all bodys systems, there are few things that will be excluded.
30 years ago, I suffered with chronic pains, headache, insomnia and gait problems due to sport injuries and three motor vehicle accidents. My mission was to heal myself naturally. I explored different therapies and used only the best on myself.
For the last 25 years, I have been pain free, healthy and exercising three days per week. The knowledge and expertise I have gained, I’ll apply to solving your pain and health conditions.
