Osteopathy

Osteopaths aim to "tune up" your body making it balanced and more efficient. They are able to detect abnormalities and areas that aren't functioning fully in the body by touch alone. They then work with the bodies own ability to heal itself using manipulation and stretching. It is all incredibly gentle. Osteopaths treat all kinds of people, not just babies. Many adults also visit Osteopaths for things like poor posture, arthritis, and sports injuries. In babies it is used to treat colic and sleeplessness amoungst other things. Osteopaths must be registered and they have to undertake a 4 or 5 year honours degree programme with clinic ...  Read the complete review

I used to suffer from RSI. Or something like RSI anyway. As a computer user who spent a lot of time working with databases (tabbing across fields, pressing return a lot) I ended up with painful hands. Hands, not wrists. So... as I was working at a private hospital, I got myself some free physiotherapy. This involved electrotherapy on both hands, massaging in Ibuleve (ibuprofen) cream and sitting with bags of frozen peas on my hands in the evenings in front of the TV. After six sessions and zero improvement, I went for the second option... Which was going to my local GP. He suggested that I required a course of anti-inflammatory tablets to take down ...  Read the complete review

About four months ago, the company I work for, generous souls that they are, decided to give us all free gym membership, hoping no doubt to breed a new generation of fit, happy workers just raring to work our little socks off with all the increased energy and happy hormones flowing through our bodies. Never having been a fan of exercise, I seriously doubted my ability to stick to any kind of programme, but thought I'd give it a go. I tried a few classes, and found one that I liked, a kind of weightlifting class to music, and I also did a few cardio sessions each week. About two months into this, I started to get a weird kind of pain in my upper ...  Read the complete review

It all started while I was in labour with my little girl, there were complications where my daughters heart rate dropped rapidly and there was concern as to whether she was getting enough oxygen in the womb or not, to find this out the doctor had to take a blood sample from the top of Mia's head and test it to check the oxygen levels, this proved very difficult and took over an hour of prodding and poking. Needless to say little Mia was born very upset with a head full of angry red scratches and cuts. As any new parent knows newborns tend to do nothing in the first few hours but sleep, it was obvious to me even within an hour that Mia was not a settled baby, and who ...  Read the complete review

Physiotherapy, osteopathy and chiropractory. I have had them all and benefitted from them all. What's the difference? Physiotherapy - largely massage of the affected area. Chiropractory - manupulation of the spine, lots of jerks and cracks. Osteopathy - a little of the two. I can't recommend these therapies highly enough. Anybody who has a normal lifestyle probably needs some therapy and all you Dooyoo users almost definitely do, as sitting at a computer is one of the worst things you can do. Modern lifestyles lead us towards bad posture. All of our chairs and car seats are designed badly and we are lazy and don't ...  Read the complete review