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AHPRA REGISTERED CHIROPRACTOR · CHI0002155467 · ACA MEMBER

Dr Sheridan Free

Chiropractor · Wellbeing Chiropractic Lilydale

I’m Dr Sheridan Free, chiropractor at our Lilydale clinic. I finished my chiropractic double degree in 2017 and built my technique range around a conviction: precision beats pressure. Diversified adjusting anchors the manual work, with Thompson drop-piece, Activator and SOT block work letting the force scale right down without the accuracy going with it, so patients who arrive braced for cracking tend to leave surprised. Children are my special interest, where gentle-and-precise proves itself daily, and Bupa recognises the clinic under its Members First program.

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Gentle and precise, in that order

Dr Sheridan Free, chiropractor at Wellbeing Chiropractic

Lilydale

4 techniques, tuned for gentle

Diversified, Thompson, Activator and SOT, chosen per spine and per day.

Paediatric interest

Careful, age-adjusted assessment and care for children, parents beside them throughout.

Private Health Insurance Onsite

All major health insurance funds, with Bupa Members First recognition at Lilydale.

Tension that’s become the default

Shoulders that live at ear height

Some bodies hold tension the way others hold breath, permanently and without noticing. Stiffness like that isn’t personality. It’s a pattern, and patterns respond to care.

Kids carrying grown-up loads

School bags, sport four nights a week, growth spurts on top. Children’s bodies work hard, and careful paediatric assessment catches what they can’t articulate.

The outer-east grind

Lilydale commutes are long in the car and longer on the train. Hips, necks and lower backs hold the tally, and Friday reads it back to you.

The complaint I hear most isn’t an injury, it’s an atmosphere: tight all the time, stiff every morning, running on guard. My work starts by finding what’s feeding that pattern, an unhurried history and precise physical assessment, and continues with adjusting that’s deliberately gentle: the lightest effective technique from a menu of four, explained before it’s delivered. Mobility tends to return the way it left, gradually and then noticeably. Anything needing a GP’s attention gets identified and referred without detours.

Precision that doesn’t need force

I finished my chiropractic double degree in 2017 and built my technique range around a conviction: precision beats pressure. Diversified adjusting anchors the manual work, and Thompson drop-piece, Activator and SOT block work let the force scale right down without the accuracy going with it. Patients who arrive braced for cracking tend to leave surprised.

Paediatric care is my special interest, and it’s where the gentle-and-precise philosophy proves itself daily. Children can’t always tell you what’s wrong, so assessment carries the load, and technique adapts to small, growing bodies with parents watching every step.

Lilydale is home base, the clinic holds Bupa Members First recognition, and I’m an ACA member. What keeps me here is a specific moment: watching someone realise the tension they’d accepted as permanent has started letting go, and their natural mobility is still under there after all.

The lightest tool that does the job

First visits are thorough and calm: your history, your daily load, then a precise physical assessment of where movement has gone missing and why. You’ll get a plain explanation and a plan that starts gentle by design.

Technique selection is the craft, Diversified where hands suit, Thompson or Activator where lower force fits, SOT where positioning can do the work. Reviews track your mobility and how your body is holding between visits, and the plan eases off as your natural movement takes back over.

“Precision beats pressure. The lightest technique that works is the right one.”

Dr Sheridan Free · Chiropractor

How I work in the treatment room

Diversified adjusting

Accurate manual care, delivered with less force than most people brace for.

Thompson technique

Drop-piece table work that softens each adjustment’s delivery.

Activator Method

Instrument adjusting measured in grams, the gentlest tool on the menu.

SOT & paediatric care

Block positioning and age-scaled technique for sensitive and small spines.

Registrations & credentials

AHPRA registered · CHI0002155467B.HSc / B.AppSc (Chiropractic), 2017ACA membershipPaediatric special interestBupa Members First recognisedLilydale VIC

Questions patients ask

Gentle enough that nervous first-timers relax by visit two. Between Activator’s measured impulse, Thompson’s drop-piece and SOT’s positioned blocks, force scales from minimal to barely-there, and nothing lands without warning.

Paediatric care spans childhood, with everything scaled hard to age: assessment methods, technique and pressure. Parents stay beside the table, every step gets explained, and anything beyond chiropractic’s lane is referred promptly.

It’s assessable, which comes first. Chronic tension usually has findable drivers, joints that stopped moving, loads that never vary, and once mapped, gentle care plus specific changes tends to shift what stretching alone couldn’t.

Bupa members generally get stronger extras value here under that recognition, and the rest of the majors go through the desk on the day, gap-only where chiropractic is covered.

No referral is needed, and imaging happens only if your assessment clinically calls for it. Bring anything you already have, otherwise arrive as you are and the examination takes it from there.

Where to find Sheridan

Wellbeing Chiropractic Lilydale

35 Maroondah Highway, Lilydale, VIC 3140

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