Osteopathy does not replace conventional medical treatment for asthma, but works in conjunction with it, with the long term aim of decreasing your dependence on your medication and improving your quality of life.
Osteopathy does this by working on all aspects of the breathing mechanism, including the ribs, spine, diaphragm,and other muscles of breathing; nerve control of the chest, as well as blood and fluid supply to the bronchi and lungs. Your osteopath gently works with the body's structure, to enhance and improve the mechanics of breathing by:
- freeing restrictions of the chest and ribs
- relaxing the respiratory muscles
- improving lymphatic drainage from the lungs and airways
- enhancing the blood supply to the chest region.
why am I in pain?
Unless there has been a specific trauma, e.g. from a car accident, fall, or sporting injury, problems in adulthood generally tend to be a result of stresses that have accumulated over the years, until the body's compensatory mechanisms begin to breakdown.
Your muscles and joints effectively go on strike, in protest over the pressure they have been subjected to, often for quite a prolonged period of time.
It can also help relieve back pain from breast feeding and lifting the baby.
what will your osteopath do?
Your osteopath will complete a thorough case history and examination. They will then explain in detail:
- How osteopathy can help you.
- What is wrong and which muscles, joints or nerves are causing your pain.
- Why it has happened.
- What treatment you require.
- Provide you with a treatment plan with milestones to help measure your progress.
- Refer you to other practitioners if required such as GP's, Radiologists, Paediatricians etc.
- How many sessions they think it will take to relieve the pain and resolve the problem.
- What you can do to speed your recovery.
- The things you must do to avoid prolonging or aggravating the injury.
- What can be done, through treatment and management, to ensure the problem does not recur.
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