When you visit an osteopath, you might be surprised by some of the questions they ask, especially about your bowel and bladder function. These questions are crucial for several important reasons. Holistic Health Approach Osteopaths view the body as a whole, interconnected system. Problems in one area can impact another. Your bowel and bladder functions…
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Here’s the typical way a patient experiences their visits to their osteopath: Person gets injured, books in with an osteopath, gets treated, gets given aftercare advice and exercises to do, has several treatment sessions and their symptoms get better, person then stops seeing the osteopath. What then? Is there anything else that may be done once…
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At the moment ‘sciatica’ is one of the most common things I am treating in clinic so I’m giving out this advice a lot! But what is it you ask? Sciatica is basically pain that is felt anywhere along the sciatic nerve so anywhere from the back of the pelvis and buttock to all the…
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False! Just because osteopaths don’t use or prescribe pain medications doesn’t mean that we don’t believe in using them. For an idea of where this misconception may have come from we need to look at osteopathic philosophy. There’s an osteopathic principle that states that ‘the body is it’s own medicine chest and has everything that it needs…
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