Chiropractic focuses on the relationship between your spine, structure, and nervous system to help your body function better and support lifelong wellbeing.
About Us
Orewa Family Chiropractic “dedicated to your family’s health and wellbeing” came about in 2008 when I purchased a small family orientated practice base from Dr Kelly Holt and Dr Jeanette McCormick, then known as “Spineworks” The name change came a year after purchase, originally re-branded as “Te Rito Family Chiropractic”. The name Te Rito represents the baby flax, heart of the Harakeke; with this in mind our logo was born. My father-in-law Bill Te Rito shared the beauty of the Harakeke with me, traditionally when Harakeke leaves were removed from the plant, only the older leaves on the outside were taken. It was believed the three inner layers of the plant represented a family. The outer layer represented the grandparents, whereas the inner layer of new shoots – the child – which remained and were to be protected by the next inner layer of leaves, the parents.
Although the name Orewa has replaced Te Rito, the logo remains as we love to look after all generations of the family. Founder Victoria Te Rito
What do we do & how do we help?
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Developed by Dr Jesse Jukowitz and has emerged as a relatively new way to improve structure and function of the human body. It is a full body approach, which involves adjusting only the bones in the body in a direction that the body cannot self correct them so then the ones the body can self correct will do so . This technique is particularly good at improving poor posture. Some of the aspects of poor posture include your head being too far in front of your shoulders, rounded shoulders, hunched forward, protruding abdomen, nerve pain, sciatica symptoms, un-level shoulders or an un-level pelvis.
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This is a comprehensive, gentle and innovative technique of Chiropractic founded in 1925 by Dr De Jarnette. It is so named because of the relationship between the sacrum (base of the spine) and occiput (base of the skull). One of the functions of the sacrum is to pump Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) from the base of the spine back up the spinal canal to the brain and throughout the nervous system. The occiput also helps to pump CSF. The minute rhythmical motion that circulates the CSF is essential to optimal health of the nervous system. The goal of SOT is to facilitate the continuous motion of CSF that is required for the central nervous system to function efficiently through adjusting and correcting associated subluxations.
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We see and adjust many babies, toddlers and children in the practice and many choose to get checked through out all stages of growth and development.
Children have busy life’s and their stressors mimic those of many adults trying to cope with the fullness of life. They too feel the pressures of tying to keep up - whether it is fitting in all the activities that parents encourage and support, the increasing spirit of competition and achievement, chemical exposure, technology addictions, lack of movement and even a stressful pregnancy and birth. If a growing brain and spine are not moving, growing, adapting, engaging and expressing quite as it should it will find its’ own way to develop. This is where the internal messaging between brain and body can become inaccurate, so the brain has to make decisions based on inappropriate input. Therefore the messages back to the body will not provide the optimum response in the organs, cells or systems. The whole system can get thrown off kilter, both in the body and in the brain, and that is when we do not function at our best or as healthy as we could be.