Holistic Osteopathy Ltd Chichester
Location : Chichester, PO19
Address : Oakwood House,4 St John Street, PO19 1UR
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 : Elaine Sturgess (Principal) offers osteopathic care for all the family, from babies and children to the very elderly & anyone in between...to benefit most types of aches, pains and strains. Holistic means treating the whole of you, not just the part that has gone wrong. Treatment entails initial assessment, and can include massage, articulation of the spine and joints of the body, manipulation, traction, posture training, cranial technique, relaxation, ultra sound, exercises for rehabilitation, counselling and advice.
Specialities : Cranial technique for children & unsettled babies, treatment for acute or chronic musculo-skeletal problems, mobilisation of the lumbar spine under traction- excellent for low back problems and sciatica, sports injuries.
Directions to Holistic Osteopathy Ltd Chichester
Osteopaths at Holistic Osteopathy Ltd Chichester are happy to treat patients with any condition listed above.
Fibromyalgia
Acute joint pain is often associated with fibromyalgia which is a disease of the central nervous system where normal, non-painful, neural messages are interpreted by the nerve receptors as pain. This leads to intense localised pain where there should be none. The symptoms of fibromyalgia include headaches, sleeping difficulties, poor concentration, stiff muscles and enervating tiredness. Some patients suffer occasional attacks allowing them to lead fairly normal lives. However, for chronic sufferers, this disease can gravely affect quality of life. There is no single cure, however much research is being done into various therapies to help ameliorate the disability associated with the condition. Osteopathic treatment is, of course, often used to treat the associated muscle pain and many practitioners combine this wiith acupressure or acupuncture to further relieve muscular pain.
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.
