What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathic practice is a safe and effective form of prevention, diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of health issues. Osteopaths are highly trained healthcare professionals who are experts in the musculoskeletal system (joints, muscles and associated tissues) and its relationship to other systems of the body, to keep you as healthy as you can be. Osteopaths see people of all ages from babies to the elderly and everyone in between, including pregnant women and elite athletes.
How can Restorative Osteopathy help?
Osteopathic care is based on the individual needs of the patient and so varies depending on your age, fitness levels and diagnosis. Osteopaths use a wide range of gentle hands-on techniques that focus on releasing tension, stretching muscles and mobilising joints. This is often used together with exercise and helpful advice designed to relieve pain and aid you in your recovery, allowing you to return to work as soon as you are able. Your osteopath can provide you with a fit note if you do need to take time off from work. You do not need to consult your GP before you visit an osteopath, although you may wish to do so.
What are some of the conditions we can treat?
✔ Arthritic pain
✔ Circulatory problems
✔ Cramp
✔ Digestion problems
✔ Fibromyalgia
✔ Frozen shoulder/shoulder and elbow pain/tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) arising from associated musculoskeletal conditions of the back and neck, but not isolated occurrences
✔ Headache arising from the neck (cervicogenic)
✔ Joint pains
✔ Hip and knee pain from osteoarthritis as an adjunct to core OA treatments and exercise
✔ General, acute & chronic backache, back pain (not arising from injury or accident)
✔ Generalised aches and pains
✔ Lumbago
✔ Migraine prevention
✔ Minor sports injuries
✔ Muscle spasms
✔ Neuralgia
✔ Tension and inability to relax
✔ Rheumatic pain
✔ Sciatica
✔ Uncomplicated mechanical neck pain (as opposed to neck pain following injury i.e. whiplash)