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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Case History On your first appointment I am going to go through a few things before I start on your treatment. First off, you’ll be asked a lot of questions about why you have come to see me, this will include questions such as- what your problem is and when/how it started how your problem…
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