Osteopaths are highly trained with skills to help address a wide range of issues.
Osteopaths are highly trained with skills to help address a wide range of issues.
Osteopathy can also help relieve postural strains from working at the desk or computer for long hours, not to mention school kids sitting in class for most of the day.
Pregnancy can take a big toll on the female body as there are huge changes that must be undergone to accommodate for the baby. The hormonal changes and weight distribution may also lead to strains which may result in pain. Osteopathy can help the body efficiently distribute the weight and relieve those strains.
Asthma is a common cause of breathing difficulties in Australia, especially amongst children. The movement of the ribs and the rib cage as a whole with the spine have a tremendous influence on the lungs and airways, which can benefit from osteopathic medicine to help reduce the breathing difficulty intensity and frequency.
Do you suffer from headaches or migraines? Osteopathic medicine can help. You may have neck and muscle stiffness which is contributing to your headache, which the osteopath can treat and help to reduce the intensity and frequency of the headache or even complete abolish it.
Osteopaths are well trained in the biomechanics of the body and understand the kind of stress that is placed on it during various sport activities. So when a sports injury occurs, whether it be a muscle strain or ligament sprain, osteopaths can speed up the recovery process back to optimal health so athletes get back on track
It is a popular belief that pain and disability go alongside with further aging. This is not the case. As we get older, the body retains less water is its system and elastic properties that give our joints and muscles their resilience are decreased. Osteopathy aims to maintain the body at an adequate level of mobility by reducing joint stiffness, increasing muscle tone and balance, increasing general blood circulation and immunity, and giving advice on general exercise and nutrition.
About 1 in 3 Australians suffer from some kind of pain in their body that causes some degree of disability. 9 in 10 people will suffer from back pain some time and their lives that will render them incapable of doing normal daily activities for at least one week.
Back pain can occur for a number of different reasons yet the most common ones are disc and spinal joint injuries, muscle spasms, poor posture with sitting or lifting, or a lack of flexibility.
Osteopaths frequently treat back pain first by massage to loosen the muscles that have stiffened up in order to protect the back from further damage, then rhythmic joint mobilisation and joint manipulation to increase joint range and quality of motion, increase blood flow for optimal repair and reduce pain.
