Osteopathy works towards assisting the patient to finding health.

OSteopathy

Osteopaths focus on your neuro-musculoskeletal system - the bones, muscles, nerves and other tissues that support your body and control its movements. They know how parts of your body should work together and the impact if they do not.

Osteopaths are trained to provide:

• Musculoskeletal and nervous system assessments – they use a range of tools to identify what might be happening in the body.

• Manual therapy –includes a range of ‘hands-on’ techniques that may give relief from musculoskeletal pain, discomfort and may help tissues in the body.

• Clinical exercise programs – activities and movement strategies for use at home, work or in other settings. Exercise may help you return to activities you enjoy, for example after an injury or surgery.

• Movement, postural, positioning advice and ergonomic assessments.

• Therapeutic needling techniques, like dry needling, trigger point therapy or acupuncture.

• Advice about your lifestyle, stress managment, diet or other factors that may influence your pain, injury or movement.

People attend an osteopath when they experience long term (chronic) and short term (acute) problems, like the examples below: