Neck & Shoulder Pain · Mornington
It's backby Thursday.
You get through Monday, and by Thursday your neck and shoulders have gone solid again. Rubbing the tight bit buys you a day. It doesn't change what keeps tightening it. Forty minutes to find out what does.
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Does this sound like you?
- You wake up stiff on one side, and it takes half the morning to ease off.
- By mid-afternoon at a screen your shoulders have crept up and you keep rolling them without thinking about it.
- Turning to reverse the car is a whole-body manoeuvre, because the neck no longer goes that far.
- There's a knot in the same spot every time — between the shoulder blade and the spine, or on top of the shoulder.
- A massage helps for a day or two, and then it's exactly as it was.
Necks and shoulders are the most common thing through this door, and the most commonly treated in the wrong place — the spot that hurts is usually working overtime for something else that isn't.
"Isn't that just a massage?"
No. A massage treats the tightness. Myotherapy asks why your neck and shoulders have been tightening up every week for years.
A neck that keeps seizing up is rarely the whole story. What the shoulder blade does when you lift your arm, whether the mid-back moves at all, how you breathe, and what your day actually asks of you — that's what the assessment is for. Treating the knot is why the knot comes back.
"I carry everything in my shoulders. I've always been like this."
What patients tell DaleForty minutes. Nothing wasted.
This is not a warm-up appointment where you come back next week for the actual treatment. All four of these happen on the first visit.
History
What you do, what set it off, what you've already tried, and what it's stopping you doing.
Assessment
Neck range in every direction, what the shoulder blade does under load, whether the mid-back moves, and which positions settle it. Testing, not guessing.
Explanation
You get told what's actually going on, in plain words, before anything else happens.
Treatment
Hands-on work starts in the same appointment, plus the two or three things to change between now and next time.
Senior Myotherapist · 25 years
Dale Peirson
Twenty-five years of hands on people who'd been told it was just stress. Dale's caseload is chronic and complex — the necks and shoulders that have already been through a few other pairs of hands.
He's the only myotherapist here, so the person who assesses you is the person who treats you, every visit.
The first visit
40-minute assessment and treatment · nothing to pay until you arrive
- Full history and hands-on assessment
- A plain-English explanation of what's driving it
- Treatment starting in the same appointment
- What to change before the next visit
Pick a time with Dale.
Booked.
With Dale Peirson at Suite 3, 12/1140 Nepean Hwy, Mornington. Parking on site. Wear something you can move in — you stay fully dressed.
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Monday, Tuesday and Thursday · Suite 3, 12/1140 Nepean Hwy, Mornington
How many years have you been calling this “just how I am”? The point of the assessment is to find out whether it has to be.
Practical bits
- Where
- Suite 3, 12/1140 Nepean Hwy, Mornington VIC 3931. Parking on site.
- When
- Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Closed Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Wear
- Something you can move in. You stay fully dressed throughout.
- Bring
- Any scans or reports if you have them. If you don't, that's fine.
- Phone
- 03 5947 4896
Straight answers
Do I need a referral?
No. Book directly.
Will it hurt?
Some of the work through the upper trap and around the shoulder blade is firm, and Dale will tell you before he does it. Nothing happens without you knowing what and why.
My neck doesn't hurt, it's my shoulder. Is this the right page?
If it is the top of the shoulder, the shoulder blade, or the band between neck and shoulder, yes. If it is the shoulder joint itself — reaching behind you, sleeping on that side, lifting overhead — the shoulder page is the closer fit. Dale sorts it out at the assessment either way; you are not in the wrong room.
It turns into a headache. Does that change anything?
Not the appointment, but it is worth knowing: the upper neck refers pain into the head convincingly, and that is a large part of what gets assessed here. The headache page goes into it.
What if it goes down my arm?
Tell Dale at the start, and expect to be pointed next door. Pain, pins and needles or weakness down the arm are nerve signs, and the spine and nervous system are a chiropractor's field. Mornington Peninsula Chiropractic is in this building, so it is a walk across the corridor rather than another search.
Is this covered by private health?
Myotherapy is claimable with most funds that include it in extras cover. Check your level of cover — rebates vary.