Just like a machine though, there are times in your life when the body can’t cope and starts to complain by producing symptoms or illnesses.

Osteopathy as a primary healthcare system is well established and recognised as a system of diagnosis and treatment, laying its main emphasis on the structural and functional integrity of the body. The main principle of osteopathy is that if your bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons are all healthy and in good structural balance, then your nervous system, circulation and consequently your whole body can function efficiently.

Where illness has created imbalance in the body’s tissues osteopathy can help to relieve this by restoring normal function, allowing the body to heal itself. It is distinctive by the fact that it recognises that much of the pain and disability which we suffer, stems from abnormalities in the function of the body structure as well as damage caused to it by disease. Osteopaths primarily work through the neuro-musculo-skeletal system, mostly on muscles and joints, and pay special attention to how the internal organs affect, and are affected by, that system. Relevant psychological and social factors also form part of the diagnosis. There are a large number and variety of techniques used by osteopaths and individual osteopaths may or may not use all of them.

The success of Osteopathy has resulted in it becoming the most popular complementary therapy. It works well with other medical practices and is suitable for almost anyone. Our patients are all ages, shapes and sizes and have all types of occupations,! We treat from newborn through to 90+ and from shopworkers to actors, sports people to mushroom pickers.