Is sleep position important.
Your sleep position can cause problems and be responsible for your back, neck or arm pain.It is important to find out what is the best sleep position for you and your painful problem.Sometimes the position causes the pain, others the pain causes an issue with the position you usually sleep in. The osteopath is ideally […]
Wrist injury or RSI
We are in a unique position to help with wrist problems. We can access by feeling the joint movements.Carpel tunnel, repetitive strain injury, Dequervans,tendonitis, tenosynovitis, pins and needles down the arm,nerve root entrapment,brachial neuritis,stiff neck,are all problems that we are ideally trained to deal with.We can identify the cause, look at your posture or work […]
Sciatica: can an Osteopath help?
Sciatica is a symptom not a diagnosis. Sciatica is pain and possibly pins and needles caused by pressure, or inflammation of the sciatic nerve, which can have several causes. If someone tells you what is causing your sciatica, that is a diagnosis. We as Osteopaths can make a diagnosis, to help you understand what is […]
Can osteopathy work on feet?
Yes we are generally very good at helping with the wide range of conditions and problems people can get with their feet. Your feet have to be very strong,and there are 2 arches that keep the sole of the foot from being flat on the floor.These are the longitudinal and transverse arches.Both can be the […]
Can children benefit from osteopathic treatment?
Yes, very much so.In fact they will respond much quicker to treatment as their bodies heal faster anyway and osteopathic treatment is just a way of facilitating the healing process.So often kids will complain of pains and as parents we often do not take them seriously and aches and pains are passed off by the […]