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Osteopathy is a profession which seeks to restore the body’s balance and enhance the natural healing mechanisms by adjusting the body’s tissues. They work on the connective tissues, joints, ligaments and muscles to reduce pain, improve movement and increase normal function. Osteopaths can help with sports injuries, sports performance, injury prevention and rehabilitation after injury…

In the UK, osteopathy is a popular treatment for low back pain and many other painful and disabling problems. The main difference between osteopathy and conventional approaches to back pain is that osteopathy does not concentrate on medication or medical investigation, but on the way the body is being used. Osteopathy is defined on the…

The UK has three major manual therapy professions – osteopathy, chiropractic and physiotherapy. However, there is widespread confusion about the differences and similarities between the three professions. Which one should I choose if I have this or that problem? Are they the same? Manual Therapy Manual therapy has been used since ancient times to treat…

The knee joint, the largest joint in the body, is one of the most frequently injured joints because it is the middle of a series of long and powerful levers (the leg), with big muscles and it undergoes large movements and heavy loads. Common Knee Pain Causes Knee pain and knee pain symptoms are often…

Shoulder pain is very common and most of us will have had some pain in our neck and shoulder region at some time. It can be really disabling, interfering with work, sleep, dressing and doing normal activities. The shoulder is a “soft-tissue joint” as the bony joint itself is very shallow with a very large…