This blog is by Toby, one of our Osteopaths. The topic is one that frequently comes up in clinic. A Guide to How Osteopathy and Physiotherapy Differ Two Tents People often ask what the difference is between osteopathy and physiotherapy. One of my biggest frustrations as an osteopath...
When patients come to us in pain, we want to know as much as possible about what has happened. One question we regularly ask is whether the patient has found anything that makes them feel better. We might prompt them with questions about whether heat...
We get lots of enquiries in the clinic for sports injuries. We also get lots of people searching online for treatment for their sporting injury. But when we recently made a new website we didn't add a page about sports injuries. Why on earth not?! Well,...
To many people, imaging techniques seem to be the last word in finding out what is wrong with them. In many cases, such investigations, such as X-ray, CT and MRI, can indeed identify the cause of illness or disease, but when it comes to musculoskeletal...
One of the movements that our practitioners look at with a lot of our patients is the ability to rotate. Can you rotate when you need to? Or are you rotating too much when you shouldn't? Often, our patients tell us that they do some rotation...
[caption id="attachment_851" align="alignright" width="300"] Joints in the lumbar spine can radiate pain through the back, and into the glutes and thighs[/caption] Patients usually come to see us here at Openhealth because they're in pain. Our job as therapists is to understand the root cause of that...
Interesting (but small) study on the effects of exercise on the brain in the over 70s. A recent paper suggests that regular exercise into old age can help reduce brain shrinkage. Brain shrinkage is not only linked with being forgetful and poor thinking, but also...
Loving the start to the Olympics - fab facilities and great atmospheres! Just wanted to urge a note of caution on your favourite competitors' performance over these next couple of weeks. Olympians, like most top-level sports stars are training and playing through injury. It might just...