Cranial osteopathy is an extremely gentle but profoundly effective form of treatment. The name is deceptive, as the gentle rebalancing techniques can be applied to every part of the body. It can be used to treat many different problems in adults, from neck pain and headaches, to gut problems and chronic pain. It is a wonderful treatment for babies, and effectively relieves colic, reflux, constipation, feeding, sleeping and settling issues.
Cranial Osteopathy has developed form the discovery in the 1930’s that small tolerances of movement exist within the human skull.
From this, an approach to diagnosis and treatment has evolved in which the Osteopath’s highly trained sense of touch is used to identify and correct disturbances and limitations of tissue mobility, not only in and around the joints of the skull, but throughout the body. The technical approach used involves extremely gentle, but specifically applied adjustments to the movements of the body tissues. Osteopaths using this approach combine a detailed understanding of human anatomy, physiology and pathological processes with a thorough working knowledge of classical examination methods.
It is essentially a very safe method of diagnosis and treatment for the whole body.
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.
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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