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Introducing Dr. Michael Black

Dr. Michael Black graduated in 1983 from Melbourne's Phillip Institute of Technology School of Chiropractic (now RMIT). He travelled overseas and practised chiropractic on a kibbutz in Israel for his first year joining a medical and physiotherapy team. This experience paved his way of thinking for years to come in forming multi-disciplinary health care teams.

In 1985, on his return to Australia, he worked with RMIT as a student teaching clinician before setting up two practices in Armadale and Lwr. Templestowe. He has worked with his father and partner, Dr. David Black, for 20 years in these practices and they have become well known in those communities for quality health care and dedication to providing after hours care for emergency chiropractic cases.

In 1991, the Black Chiropractic Group opened practice in a new style medical group called Complete Health Medical Centres. This group was based on the multi-disciplinary approach to health that Dr Michael Black had successfully worked with years before. The Centre included physiotherapy, naturopathy, psychology, massage therapy and podiatry as well as the medical doctors and specialists.

The formula worked so well that the Black Chiropractic Group was invited to open further clinics in Nunawading and Moonee Ponds, which they did with the help of associate chiropractors. These practices ran busily throughout the 1990’s and only closed after ten years with a change of medical centre ownership.

The valuable lessons learned in those years working sharing hundred of cases with doctors and physiotherapists were that we all have something to offer. Every patient can benefit from all disciplines of care; the trick is to find out which can help the most effectively for each individual case. The Armadale and Lwr. Templestowe clinics today offer a smaller group of like-minded therapists, each skilled in their area of expertise and willing to cross-refer to other services as required. The patient does not need to go far to find the type of care they individually require.

After 22 years of practice, Dr. Michael Black believes more passionately in the benefits of chiropractic than ever. He has seen what the advent of computers and less exercise has done to people and the increasing spinal problems that abound. Five years ago, he commenced studying his Master in Chiropractic Paediatrics degree to further his skills in helping children.

His practice today includes newborn infants, toddlers and children through to their teenage years. Dr. Michael Black believes these early growth years are when chiropractic offers the most potential develop a health nervous system. Dr. Black is married to Lana with two baby daughters, Tia and Bella.