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Parenthood truly is enjoyable and rewarding, I often find myself rushing home at the end of the day in the hope our son will still be up, just to get 5 more minutes with him that day! I know we’re meant to be winding them down in the evening but I can’t resist making him smile, or laugh, one last time before bed.

Parenthood, as rewarding as it is, is a lot of work. Early starts, night feeds, entertaining them, I can’t remember a lie-in past 7am! When you unconditionally love someone it goes without question to put their needs ahead of yours at all cost. But sometimes you need to have a bit of me time.

They want picking up, you hold them. If they want to ride on your shoulders, that’s what they get. Any manual handling training or advice you’ve ever had goes out of the window. Try lifting a child out of the bath with your knees and not your back!

With all of this poor posture and lifting habits, it’s not surprising that we get aches and pains. The job doesn’t stop, we can’t take holidays from being parents and there’s no sick leave. More importantly, we want to help our children every step of the way. We want to put ourselves out for them, and never want to say no because of pain stopping us!

So How Can Osteopathy Help us be Better Parents?

Well we can’t help you with family dilemmas or picking the right area for the best school catchment. But we can help you keep up with your kids and feel in top shape, no more saying ‘no, because mummy’s back is sore’ or not going out on the family cycle because of that niggle in your knee!

We can help by easing your pain, improving flexibility and posture and help take some of the strain and load off your body.

“We understand the strains parenting can put your body”

At Pure Health Osteopath Clinic we like helping parents. We take the time to really understand you, and carry out a full examination to get to the bottom of what is causing your problem. This includes understanding its impact on your life. All these factors are important to us and help to form a treatment plan specifically for you.

Our treatments are safe, Natural, and drug free. Treatments are specific to you, and we consider techniques you like and don’t like. Treatments typically involve:

• Massage – to soothe tight or sore muscles.
• Mobilisation – helping your joints move easier.
• Manipulation – to free up restricted joints.
• Specific stretches – to loosen restriction and improve flexibility.
• Acupuncture – to decrease pain experienced.
• Advice – on management, aftercare and exercises that may help improve function.

 

For more information or to book an appointment, just give us a call. We will happily answer any questions.

Pure Health Osteopath Clinic

01179 000 935

info@osteopath.clinic

What is Osteopathy:

Osteopathy is a form of manual therapy that can have beneficial effects for a variety of muscle and joint conditions. Osteopathic treatment involves the use a wide range of gentle hands on techniques. Treatment varies between patients depending on your age, fitness and diagnosis, but often focuses on releasing tension, stretching muscles and mobilising joints.

 

Benefits of Osteopathy:

• Pain reduction.
• Improved motion of the joints
• Decreased stiffness
• Improved Posture
• Prevention of complications

 Effective in following sports related conditions:

• Neck pain
• Back pain
• Joint related problems
• Ligament injuries
• Stress related injuries
• Injury prevention strategies
• Speedy recovery from injury

How massage is helpful in these conditions:

• Reduce muscle tension
• Decrease swelling and pain
• Improve circulation to the affected part

How Osteopaths Treat Athletes:

Treatment of injuries primarily focuses on recovery, rehabilitation, and prevention of reoccurrence. Performance enhancement focusses on personal evaluation and goal setting. This includes assessing; fitness, joint mobility, strength, muscular function, nerve function and posture.

Types of sports injuries:

Sports injuries can be categorized in to two groups.

• Acute traumatic injuries:

It includes fractures, sprains, strains, concussion, cuts, and head injuries. For example a blow to the knee when tackling, or a direct hit by a bat etc.

 

• Overuse injuries:

Stress fractures, tendonitis, runner’s knee and tennis elbow are characterized as overuse injuries. They happen due to continuous exercises such as running and serving a ball in tennis.

Osteopathic  techniques:

• Mobilization of joint
• Stretching exercises
• Soft tissue techniques
• Massage
• Joint manipulation techniques
• Acupuncture and dry needling

 

Joint Mobilization:

This technique is used to improve range of motion in a joint and help restore pain free joint movement. This can benefit by restoring motion to an area restricted due to injury or overuse. This can have positive effects by improving musculo-skeletal function and improving fluid flow in and out of the specific joint (almost like lubricating a stiff joint).

 

Muscle stretching:

Vigorous exercises are associated with tightening of muscles. The stretching exercises help to lengthen and relax tight muscles. This can help; improve flexibility, increase joint range of motion and relieve pain caused by tight muscles.

 

Massage Techniques

Soft tissue massage is often used to improve circulation and reduce pain to an area. It is also effective in easing tight muscles that may be responsible for restriction or pain.

 

Joint Manipulation Techniques

Joint manipulation techniques are advanced, powerful mobilisation techniques for specifically mobilising restricted joints. Manipulation is often associated with an audible clicking noise as the joint releases. Effects include; improved range of motion and decreased pain. Manipulation techniques can also have an effect of neurological feedback mechanisms, causing local muscle relaxation and pain inhibition.

Strapping and Taping

Strapping and taping techniques are used to restrict or immobilise a joint. Sometimes following an acute injury rest and immobilisation can benefit the area by preventing re-irritation and allowing the bodies healing process to take place.

Taping can be a great way to restrict or immobilise an area whilst allowing you to still carry take part in sport.

 

Acupuncture

The main therapeutic effects of acupuncture are achieved through stimulation of the nervous system, these effects have been shown to; improve nutrient flow to an area, stimulate the release of your body’s own pain killers (endophines), inhibit the activation of neurological pain pathways. This overall, helps to decrease pain experienced and helps create an environment for your body to heal.