Alternative Health Screenings
Location : Rickmansworth, WD3
Address : 127 New Road,Rickmansworth, WD3 3EN
Contact : Call 0845 680 0615 to make an appointment with the practice. Let us know if you need an evening or weekend appointment. Calls may be monitored or recorded.
Description : Our practitioners diagnose and treat problems with muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves to help your body's natural healing abilities. We treat a wide range of musculoskeletal injuries and problems such as lower back pain, neck, shoulder aches, and headaches, on people of all ages. We also treat people with a wide range of sports injuries; problems such as knee aches, ankle problems and muscular strains. We are fully qualified, state registered and regulated health professionals who form an integral part of modern-day health care. Our treatments involve using gentle manual techniques to ease your pain and improve your mobility
Specialities : Sports Injuries, Back pain, Neck pain, Head aches, Migraines, Shoulder Pain, Knee Pain, Ankle Pain
Directions to Alternative Health Screenings
Osteopaths at Alternative Health Screenings are happy to treat patients with any condition listed above.
Birth Trauma and accidents whilst a child
Psychiatrists and psychologists are well-known for stressing the importance in understanding what happens before a child is born, during the birth process and what happens in the early years. Cranial osteopaths have long recognised that the birthing process imposes enormous strain on babies, particularly if the birth is difficult or elongated. The baby's skull stretches to accomodate the narrow birth canal, but only gradually recovers its shape. After a difficult birth the process of "unmoulding" may be incomplete, leaving residual stress within the head and impacting on the nervous system. These stresses can give rise to conditions such as colic, trapped wind, regurgitation, feeding difficulties and sleep problems. In addition childhood is a time of slips, trips, falls and scrapes, each of which can potentially impose a similar burden of stress.
Edema
From an osteopathic perspective edema - or an abnormal concentration of fluid in any part of the body - is most frequently the result of a blockage of the body's normal absorptive flows which may be caused by a trauma or by post-operative scarring for example. The danger is the viscious cycle whereby edemas cause further blockages to blood vessels and nerves which impedes their function giving rise to tissue congestion exacerbating the problem. The recommended treatment for edema is to restore free movement to the lymphatice drainage system via gentle manipulation or massage. The intended effect is improve circulation, increased resorption, and a system that can naturally heal itself.
