Osteopathy

Osteopaths are highly skilled, university-trained, primary allied health care professionals. We use the information our patients give us, with the appropriate clinical examinations, to formulate a diagnosis.

Osteopathy employs the philosophy that “the body is a unit”  and considers the function of the body as a whole entity, regardless of the location of discomfort. Osteopaths look at how our skeleton, joints, muscles, nerves, circulatory system, connective tissue, and internal organs function as a whole-body unit before diagnosis and treatment.

Osteopaths provide musculoskeletal and nervous system assessments, manual therapy; clinical exercise programs; movement, postural, positioning advice and ergonomic assessments. 

Your osteopath may also offer ongoing support and educational advice about your lifestyle, stress management, diet, or other factors that may influence your pain, injury, or movement.

Osteopaths consider a patient complaint with unique attention to the complex interrelationships between the body’s structure and the way it functions.  The aim is to acknowledge relationships of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit to ultimately restore the body's self-healing and repairing mechanisms by advising patients on lifestyle, diet, stress management techniques, and exercise/rehabilitation.