About Us
Committed to Your Health Excellence
Hi, I’m Dr Graeme Teague, a Christchurch Spinal Kinesiologist with a difference. Why the difference?
In my clinic we use a unique combination of techniques that are designed to help you restore health, not just remove aches and pains, but also to help you get the health you want and desire.
My belief goes beyond a symptom approach. Our goal is not just pain relief or removal of any ailment you suffer with, but to teach my patients how you can gain health and vitality yourself.
Our Values
Our Work Is Heavily Shaped by Our Core Values
Excellence
No single technique is perfect! Combining different modalities together allows us to to cover every aspect of your health, to not just remove symptoms but get to the underlying cause. Through this aim, I use techniques to help restore your health through, painless/non-force Spinal Kinesiology joint work, Reflex work, Acupressure and Homeopathy.
Empowerment
My aim is to empower you with skills and techniques so you can improve your recovery, but also have a set of skills you can use at any time to help your health. Teaching you techniques to use at home, including reflexes, acupressure and more, helps ease pain faster and are designed to help build health and vitality.
The Law Of Habit
To make any long-term change you need to break the habits – the physical, mental and energetic habits your body has formed. Inside the clinic we instil in the body a new way of working. The only way to make this permanent is to reinforce the techniques we use by using some simple tools at home that only take a few minutes of time to make these lifetime internal habits.
An Investment
Your health should be your priority, and I also make in mine. Health is an investment, short term you will get symptom relief, but the long term benefits means a life filled with health, vitality and energy. A small amount of time and effort, from both treatment and your at home exercises, can mean a leading a life you will love.
My Background:
Christchurch born and bred, I have lived here all my life (apart from 5 years while studying in Melbourne). I have a Bachelor of Science degree from Canterbury University, and after studying there went to Melbourne to complete my Chiropractic Degree.
I have been in private practice since 1991, firstly on the west side of Christchurch, and shifting to the eastern suburbs in 1999. The clinic was on Redcliffs, Ferrymead and then Mt Pleasant until 2020 when we shifted to Merivale. I see clients from all over Christchurch, New Zealand and beyond.
It was my personal experience with poor health that helped me decide to train as a Chiropractor. I had suffered with back pain, bowel, skin and sinus problems since I was a child.
I had always planned on becoming a medical doctor, but for various reasons decided that it wasn’t what I really wanted to do. After seeking help from numerous practitioners around Christchurch, I was lucky enough to have treatment from a local Chiropractor who specialised in Applied Kinesiology.
It was from my treatment and improvement in my health, that I decided then to study Chiropractic. I further studied Applied Kinesiology as my goal was not just to treat from a structural perspective but from a whole-body one.
After being in practice for a few years, my health was doing well, but I relied on treatment to maintain my health. If treatment stopped my health suffered. It was from that experience that lead me to search for ways to help maintain my health … without needing ongoing frequent treatment.
To find ways that I could control MY health and well-being.
I have since learned many techniques, each great by itself, but when combined are even more effective. Hence the practicing title of Spinal Kinesiologist.
I believe that knowing how to look after yourself is essential, as when you are away on holiday or out of town, if something occurs, you then have the ability to help yourself return to health.
I still recommend patients have a maintenance treatment in our clinic every few months. As we all know that life becomes hectic and we do slip with doing the things we know we should.
Also as the saying goes … Rome wasn’t built in a day. The same applies to your health.
Think of health as fitness.
TO become fit YOU have to jog or walk to improve your fitness level. You can’t take a pill, potion or anything to make you fit. Health is just the same.
Treatment will help prepare your body for health; it will remove the health issues that prevent you from being as healthy as you can. Treatment can also start the process of building your health but long term great health requires YOU to help.
Regular maintenance treatments, some simple techniques to do at home and your health will continually build … now and into your future.
My goal is to teach people to age well and to enjoy your latter years being healthy – physically and mentally. Learning how to improve your health is an essential tool to help you live life to the fullest.
