The Benefits of Osteopathy

Busy days spend sitting at the desk or behind the wheel, running around after children, engaging in heavy manual labour or physically demanding sports.

Leisure activities, as well as routine tasks, can take their toll on your body and create postural strains and stresses.

From gardening to extreme sports like MMA - a vast array of hobbies can lead to acute or repetitive strain injuries and the stress of managing them can affect your mental health too.

Osteopathy can benefit people from all walks of life.

In contrast to active sportspeople, those with more sedentary office-based jobs may also experience conditions that may be eased by osteopathic treatment; these include back pain resulting from poor posture and repetitive strain injuries.

Today, it is estimated that 5% of the workforce has time off work in association with back pains.

Increasingly, osteopathy is used to improve conditions that result from the workplace setting; treatments can ease the pain as well as contributing to the increased efficiency of the workforce.

Pregnant women can also benefit from this kind of treatment as it helps to improve the positioning and alignment of the spine; this can ease pains and aches.

Arthritis can be extremely painful and is a common condition in older people; symptoms such as aches and pains can be soothed by osteopathic treatment.

Joint pain which is common in older people can also be eased as a result of this type of treatment; commonly these pains are experienced in the hip and shoulder joints.

Many older people also experience increased stiffness in their joints as they age; this can often be released as a result of osteopathic treatment. Older people are often fragile therefore a gentler approach will often be taken to their care and therapy.

Osteopathic treatment can reduce pain, stiffness and inflammation, and improve mobility.

It can help prevent injuries, enhance performance and speed recovery.

Maintenance treatments can improve your health and wellbeing, even when you have no specific complaints.