Anyone from teenagers, adults to older people can benefit from Osteopathy. A range of treatment methods are used depending on the age and individual condition of the person.
Benefits of Osteopathy may include relief from pain and assistance to help the body function better in a number of ways. These include improved mobility more ease with walking and other movements feeling more relaxed and sleeping better. Though well known for treating joints, osteopaths work with many other components of the body including muscles, tendons, ligaments, soft tissues, and nerves. Additionally, sessions involve giving advice on ways to manage a condition such as advice on posture, walking, safe lifting techniques sometimes specific strengthening exercises to do at home. Conditions often helped by osteopaths include:
If you’re over 60 its easy to blame everything on “getting older”. That’s what everyone seems to do including doctors.
There are many difficulties that occur in the physical body with aging. Aches and pains difficulty turning your head, sciatica, stiff back, sore knees and headaches. These are some problems of getting older and you may be told that nothing can be done about it. Osteopaths may help older people. We listen to you, ask questions about old and new complaints and then assess your walking and other movements of joints such as hips, shoulders and knees. We then use our hands to work on your body. Our aim is to release tight muscles and tissues through stretching and soft tissue work and gently move joints and encourage them to move a little further. we may also use special techniques to release the nerves in the neck, arms and legs to relieve pain and improve movement and balance. Osteopaths may help older people with conditions such as:
It’s guiding principles have a basis in the healing power of nature believing that: “The body is not a machine but a vital living organism with a normal tendency towards self-healing, elimination and health” and that: “Health is not merely an absence of disease but a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing.” (1) In contrary to conventional medicine’s use of pharmaceuticals to treat pathogens osteopaths believed that disease developed due to certain factors lowering the vital force of a person affecting their capacity to heal. Some of the ways that the early osteopaths and currently Classical School osteopaths aim to encourage the vital processes is through:
The aim of treatment is to assist in restoring rhythm and coordination as well as achieving a stable, unified structure for long term recovery. (1) What is classical osteopathy? |
AuthorMatt has 13 years of experience working as an osteopath in Hobart and Sorell, treating teenagers to older adults, and is a member of Osteopathy Australia. Archives
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