What can Osteopaths treat?
Osteopaths treat the whole person not just the condition.
Using the principles of osteopathy, a very wide variety of conditions can be helped, including:
- Back and neck pain
- Joint pain
- Headache and migraine
- Digestive disorders
- Period pain and irregularity
- Recurrent infection
- Asthma and chest complaints
- Stress, depression and fatigue
- General ill health
- Childhood problems
About Osteopathy
Bridgetown Clinic presents a highly qualified team of individuals committed to your family requirements for health.
Osteopathy has at the heart its philosophy the promotion of EASE and the banishment of DIS-EASE.
Osteopathy is a system of diagnosis and treatment that lays its main emphasis on the structural integrity of the body. Balanced mechanical structure supports optimum body function. In this way anatomy and physiology are linked.
Osteopaths treat a wide age range; from cranial birth strain of the newborn; ear, nose, throat, headaches and growing pains of the child; workstrain; ante and post-natal care; sports injuries; head, neck, facial and back pains, to degenerative joint problems of the elderly.
Health
Health is not simply the absence of disease or pain. It is a state of balance and harmony between the body and mind of a person. in health a person should be able to respond to events such as accidents, infections or emotional stress, deal with these events and restore itself to optimum health afterwards. The majority of people are not in full health, but are carrying an accumulation of the effects of different traumatic events that have happened to them during their life.
