What can osteopathy help with?
A wide range of ailments or conditions are often referred to by a diagnosis. They may be of mechanical cause and can be treated.
Examples of this could be:
- Babies with crooked heads, colic, restlessness, etc.
- Headache
- Migraine
- Whiplash
- Sinusitis
- Biting and toothache
- Torticollis
- Dizziness
- Neck pain
- Frozen shoulder
- Mouse arm
- Rotator cuff problems
- Tennis and golf elbow as well as tendinitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Disc herniation
- Sprained ribs
- Asthma-like conditions
- COPD
- Back pain
- Pelvic loosening or locking
- Sciatica
- Osteoarthritis in the hips and knees
- Jumper's and runner's knee
- Knee surgery and meniscus injuries
- Achilles tendon and heel pain
- Ankle sprains
- Learning problems for children at the start of school
- Stomach pain, constipation, nervous stomach
- Menstruation and pelvic discomfort
- Incontinence
In the case of tissue damage, I often work around the damaged tissue.
Some conditions are not appropriate to treat directly: cancer, inflammation, infection and illness with fever. However, it may still be possible to treat the problem indirectly with good effect.