Category Archives: Osteopathy
Statistically, as much as 84% of the global population will have an episode of back pain at some point in their lifetime.
Last July, I took myself to a hip workshop in Oxford with a very reputable osteopath teaching the day class, John Gibbons.
I had a patient the other day who reported shoulder pain. She went on to say that a friend of hers had said it must be frozen shoulder.
Any intervention that is meant to aid a symptom will have side effects. If it didn’t then there would be no response to the treatment, good or bad.
The severity is mixed, with some people experiencing excruciating pain and other mild pain. Some recover within a few days, while others suffer for a couple of weeks.
One of the most common, if not the most common problem in the clinic with patients is stiffness in the neck and shoulders.
Spinal manipulation is characteristically associated with the production of an audible ‘clicking’ or ‘popping’ sound.
The question I am asked most when I first speak to or meet a new patient is “What is the difference between an Osteopath and a Chiropractor?”
Over the last several years I have been spending one day a week in London, teaching student Osteopaths the techniques.
Almost everyone has suffered from sore, aching muscles (medically known as myalgia) at some point in their life.
