Your Osteopathy questions answered:
What is Osteopathy?
Let’s put it really simply: Your body experiences aches and pains for 2 reasons:
- Either your muscles and joints are too tight and too stiff (= pain)
- OR, your muscles and joints are too mobile, too flexible and unstable.
An osteopath’s job is to work out if you are 1. Or 2., or 1+2, and to put it right.
Sometimes in life, we forget to look after ourselves. We let our muscles become stiff and tight. We wake up morning and we can’t touch our toes any more. Then one day you bend over to tie a shoe lace and you find you can’t stand up because your back muscles have locked and won’t let you move. Or you are in the gym one day lifting some weights and suddenly get a raging leg pain that won’t go away. Some people find tension build-up goes to their neck, and they wake one morning and can’t look left or right. This is all treatable and preventable. But mostly we tend to just live with aches and pains, a constant dull ache in the low back, a stiff neck, headaches, and sore shoulders. We think it is just part of life, a side effect of modern day living, but it doesn’t have to be like that.
If you don’t put oil in a car, it will break down. If you leave it standing out in the rain for 20 years it will become rusty, creaky and slow.
If you don’t look after your muscles and joints, they will become stiff, tight, creaky and begin to break down and cause you pain.
Osteopathy keeps your joints oiled and your muscles stretched, flexible and strong...and ultimately...pain-free.