About Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a holistic hands-on health care therapy, which was developed in the early 20th century. Osteopathy’s aim is to restore and enhance health and wellbeing to the whole body – thereby easing pain and improving function. Central to osteopathic principles is the body’s inherent ability to heal itself.
Osteopathy works with the entire body – from muscles, bones and fascia to the nervous, endocrine, circulatory and lymphatic systems. Osteopathic treatment does not target symptoms but looks to treat the cause of the complaint.
Osteopathic care includes the formation of a management plan as resolution of the patients’ problem proceeds. This involves consideration of a person’s life-style, such as exercise, posture and food choices. This is to help equip a person with tools to maintain and enhancing their health and wellbeing.
Osteopaths believe that your whole body will work well if your body is in a good structural condition. Osteopathy is a highly regulated profession and all osteopaths have to be registered with the General Osteopathic Council.
Who is osteopathy for?
Osteopathy is suitable for everyone – from babies and children, adolescents, pregnant women, adults and the elderly.
In my practice I work with people from all walks of life, including manual and professional workers, children, those now retired, and sport enthusiasts.
Osteopathy is best known for the treatment of the following;
Back, Neck, Shoulder , Elbow, Wrist pain
Hip, Knee, Ankle, foot pain
Headaches
Arthritis
Sports Injury
Golfers and Tennis Elbow
pre and post natal care
See testimonials to see how how Osteopathy helps a range of other conditions and supports well being.
See also this link to the Institute of Osteopathy, on What is Osteopathy, Who it can help, and short videos to help explain, what osteopaths do, and what you might expect in a treatment session post lockdown.
“Osteopathy is a philosophy of healthcare that acknowledges that the living body is a self-renewing, self-regenerating, self-recuperating system which maintains health constantly throughout life. Whenever that health-maintaining system is compromised, symptoms or disease could develop. Osteopathy is concerned with that which has compromised health rather than the resulting condition.
“Osteopaths have been regulated by statute since 1993. They are trained to diagnose conventionally and also to use their hands to assess body function and dysfunction. This gives the osteopath uniquely sensitive information about the disability within the body and how this insight might be used to help restore health.
“Although people commonly describe their symptoms in terms of conventional medical conditions, osteopaths do not primarily treat medical conditions; they are more concerned with the cascade of events which could have contributed to the development of those medical conditions.“