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AHPRA REGISTERED CHIROPRACTOR · CHI0002573512

Dr Zachary Gouvas

Chiropractor · Wellbeing Chiropractic Rosanna & Hawthorn

I’m Dr Zac Gouvas, practice partner at Wellbeing Chiropractic and an AHPRA registered chiropractor across our Hawthorn and Rosanna clinics. Fourteen years of competitive soccer put me on the other side of this table first, preseasons, finals, rolled ankles and the hope that someone can get you right for Saturday, so I take your goal as seriously as your injury. My Bachelor of Health Science and Bachelor of Applied Science in Chiropractic built the base, and the technique range keeps widening, Diversified and Gonstead for precise manual work, Activator for lighter touch, Atlas Orthogonal for the upper neck, SOT for gentler care. Getting out of pain is the start line, not the finish.

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14 years of competitive soccer

Dr Zachary Gouvas, chiropractor at Wellbeing Chiropractic

RosannaHawthorn

14 years of competitive soccer

Injuries, rehab and comebacks from the player’s side, before any of it was professional knowledge.

6 techniques on hand

Diversified, Gonstead, Activator, Atlas Orthogonal, SOT and more, matched to the person.

Private Health Insurance Onsite

All major health insurance funds at both Rosanna and Hawthorn.

For people who refuse to stop moving

The wall you keep hitting

You train, you niggle, you rest, you’re fine, you train, it’s back. That loop means something hasn’t turned up yet, and finding it is an assessment job, not a willpower one.

The comeback that stalls at eighty percent

Recovered enough to play, never quite back to your level. The last twenty percent usually lives in how you move, not how you feel, and that can be examined.

The active job with the inactive spine

Plenty of Hawthorn and Rosanna patients train hard around a desk-heavy week. The mismatch between the two is where a lot of pain quietly starts.

Active people get told to rest more often than they get examined, and I think that order is backwards. My first job is working out the actual driver: a proper history, a close look at how you move under load, and an answer that goes past the sore spot. From there care aims at the root of the pattern, because relief that ignores the cause tends to send you back here. And if the findings need a GP or a sports physician first, I’ll say so before we go anywhere.

Fourteen seasons on the other side of the table

Competitive soccer had me from childhood: fourteen years of preseasons, finals, rolled ankles, a body pushed hard and patched up to play again. When you’ve personally sat in the waiting room hoping someone can get you right for Saturday, you practise differently. You take the goal seriously, not only the injury.

I hold a Bachelor of Health Science and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chiropractic. My technique range has kept widening since: Diversified and Gonstead for precise manual work, Activator for lighter touch, Atlas Orthogonal for the upper neck, SOT for gentler block-based care. The mix means treatment can fit the patient rather than the reverse.

My week runs between our Rosanna and Hawthorn clinics, mostly with active people who take their health seriously and keep hitting a wall they can’t get past alone. My training extends to animal chiropractic as well, and the occasional four-legged athlete on the table keeps the biomechanics interesting. That’s the connection I love in this work. It never feels like treating a condition, it feels like helping someone get their life back.

Past the symptom, into the pattern

First visits dig deeper than where it hurts. I want your history, your training or work load, and an examination of how you really move, because active bodies are excellent at hiding the real problem behind a compensation. You’ll get my unvarnished findings in plain words and a plan aimed at the driver.

The plan itself usually has two speeds: settle the current episode, then rebuild the capacity and movement quality that stop it returning. Understanding your own body is part of the deal here, I’d rather teach you the why than keep it mysterious.

“Getting out of pain is the starting line. Moving better for the next decade is the actual race.”

Dr Zachary Gouvas · Chiropractor

How I work in the treatment room

Diversified & Gonstead

Segment-specific manual adjusting where the assessment shows it will earn its place.

Atlas Orthogonal

Instrument-guided care for the uppermost neck, precise and very low force.

Activator & SOT

Gentler instrument and block options when the presentation or preference calls for them.

Athletic movement care

Load, mechanics and return-to-sport thinking shaped by fourteen years of playing through it myself.

Registrations & credentials

AHPRA registered · CHI0002573512Practice PartnerB.HSc & B.AppSc (Chiropractic)14 years competitive soccerHuman & animal chiropracticAtlas Orthogonal practitionerExtras claims, both clinicsRosanna & Hawthorn

Questions patients ask

From the inside, yes. Fourteen years of competitive soccer means I’ve done the preseason, the injury, the rushed comeback and the smart one. Plans here respect your training rather than defaulting to rest.

Usually, yes. Incomplete recoveries commonly leave a movement compensation behind, and that pattern is findable on examination. Whether it’s treatable here or needs another practitioner, you’ll get a clear answer.

It’s precision care for the top vertebra of the neck using a measured instrument rather than manual force. In the right presentations, especially some neck and headache patterns, it’s remarkably gentle.

Rosanna and Hawthorn both do, across all major health insurance funds, with only the gap to settle when chiropractic is inside your cover.

Self-refer away, no paperwork needed. Bring scans or reports if any exist, and if a GP should be looped in, that gets organised as part of your plan.

Where to find Zachary

Wellbeing Chiropractic Rosanna

On Lower Plenty Rd, near Rosanna Station

100 Lower Plenty Rd, Rosanna, VIC 3084

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Wellbeing Chiropractic Hawthorn

365 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC 3122

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