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Osteopathy
What Is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a manual therapeutic approach to health. The philosophy of Osteopathy states that the body has a natural ability to heal itself.  Osteopathic philosophy is based on the following main principles:
           
  • The body is an integral unit - mind, body and spirit.
           
  • Structure and function are interdependent
           
  • The body is self-regulatory and self-healing in the face of disease

Proper function is dependent on the unimpeded supply of the body fluids and in the proper expression of the nervous system.

Disturbance in the structure-function relationship will ultimately lead to ill-health and disease. Osteopathic treatment, by removing physical stresses, helps the body's own inherent healing mechanisms express themselves more fully. If given the right opportunity, the body can re-establish balance and health.

“Listen! ...if you ask the body, it will tell you”

We Are Specialised In:

Osteopathy in the Cranial Field helps to alleviate pain and restrictions and has successfully treated conditions such as:
           
  • Neck, back & shoulder pain
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Migraines & Headaches
  • Premenstrual tension
  • Athletic & Sports injuries
  • “slipped discs”
  • Digestive disorders
  • Circulatory disorders
  • Infant and children's conditions
  • Sinusitis and many many more

How Osteopathy Works:

Osteopaths are trained intensively to be able to perceive very subtle amounts of motion and changes in tissue tension and fluid movement. 

An osteopath recognises that all body systems, including the musculo-skeletal are inter- dependent.  In addition, he sees the body as self-maintaining and self-regulating, but recognises the body's equilibrium can be disturbed by external factors including injuries, trauma of any kind, emotional stress, strains of life and body imbalances. Disturbances in this structure-function relationship will ultimately lead to ill-health and disease - the body’s way of signalling that things aren’t right within.  Unless the initial disruption is addressed, treatment of the symptoms alone won’t provide complete or sustainable relief. Over time, your body  tissues and fluids have adapted to a pattern of movement. This pattern is created over time by the combination of faulty posture, trauma or injury of any kind and stress.  Even though it may not be the ultimate pattern, your body adapts to that pattern in order to keep functioning as well as possible.  The osteopath respect that pattern an works with it.   By very gently and carefully encouraging the tissue in the direction in which it wants to move, and then exaggerating that motion far enough to a precise point of balance, your internal potency is aroused and  your body takes over the healing process.

A precise amount of pressure will promote the movement of fluids, eliminate dysfunction in the motion of tissues, and release stressed muscles, ligaments, bones and joints.

“The process is so subtle, you may not even feel it.  You just notice the benefit.”

Healing time depends on the restrictions, age & vitality of the patient and length of time of the problem. The more long standing the condition, the longer it takes to help.  In general, most patients see significant improvement after 3-4 visits.   You will see signs along the way to motivate and encourage you to keep going.  The key with treatment, is that an osteopath doesn’t just alleviate pain and symptoms, he gets to the core of the problem so the body can begin to heal itself.  Because emotional, as well as physical stresses are released, many patients can experience emotional reactions as well as physical.  These positive responses can occur during the treatment, hours or days after.

Your body has the ability to heal itself from within.  Every individual is born with an internal healing mechanism  which has all the elements to make up your own personal “pharmacy”.  Problems arise when this mechanism is not able to do its job properly.

Through Osteopathic treatment, the osteopath aims to unblock your  natural (and extremely powerful)  internal healing mechanisms, enabling them to express themselves more fully and resulting in the improved function of your body's systems.  By encouraging the body to use its own internal “pharmacy”, balance and health can be re-established.
Osteopathy