C.H.E.K. Practitioner
Paul Chek & I in 2002
If you’re going through life with chronic pain or injury, it’s
possible that your cause hasn’t been identified or resolved.
As a Level 3 C.H.E.K. Practitioner, Peter was taught to use the ‘Survival Totem Pole’ by Paul Chek in 2006 to help resolve challenging pains & injuries.
This unique approach is used to help identify the cause of your problem, based upon the body's need for survival. Our vital functions are at the top, because they're more important for survival.
Our vital functions are:
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Breathing / Respiratory function (to stay alive)
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TMJ (jaw) & teeth alignment & function (to eat)
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Vision (to look out for environmental threats)
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Hearing & Balance (to hear environmental threats, & prevent falls)
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The body will compensate in non-vital areas, to optimise the vital functions that are crucial to keep us alive. Even though staying alive is much easier today than when we were cave people, it takes the human genome around 100,000 years to change 0.001%, so is therefore biologically the same in
a modern world.
What this means, is that if someone has lower back pain, it’s possible that the cause could be due to a jaw alignment problem - the lower back is the area of compensation, in an attempt to maintain optimal jaw alignment. Lower back pain could also be due to what you're eating (essentially switching your abdominal muscles off), as another example, therefore nutritional changes would be the solution, and not 'core' exercises.
So, if you’ve been experiencing short term relief, or require regular ‘maintenance’ treatments, for your pain or injury, you may benefit from having your body assessed holistically in pursuit to address the cause, rather than the symptoms only.
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Peter’s clinic is located at Edgecliff Court, Suite 4, 2 New McLean St, Edgecliff (by Edgecliff train station), Sydney.
