Disclaimer

The pages on this site are general information. They describe what conditions are, what people commonly come in for, and what an appointment in Freshwater involves. They are not personal advice and not a diagnosis.

What that means practically. Reading a page about shoulder pain is not an assessment of your shoulder. Exercises described in general terms may be wrong for your particular problem. And information about herbs cannot take into account your medications, which is exactly where interactions happen.

Seek medical care rather than delaying it. See a doctor for anything new, severe or worsening. Seek urgent care for pain with fever, unexplained weight loss, bleeding, progressive numbness or weakness, chest pain or breathlessness, a sudden severe headache, or pain after significant trauma. Call 000 in an emergency, and Lifeline is 13 11 14 if you are in crisis.

No testimonials and no outcome promises appear on this site. Australian law regulating advertising by registered health practitioners prohibits testimonials about clinical care and unsubstantiated claims of benefit, and where the evidence for something is mixed we say so on the page.

Acupuncturists in Australia are registered with AHPRA under the Chinese Medicine Board; check any practitioner on the public register at ahpra.gov.au. Tell us if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, in fertility treatment, on prescribed medication, or have a bleeding disorder, because each changes what is appropriate. We are ten streets from Balgowlah and about twenty from Manly.