The Healthworks Clinic - Chichester
Location : Chichester, PO19
Address : The Healthworks Clinic,Scott Dunn Building, PO19 7UH
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 : The concept of Healthworks Clinics is to provide a high quality one stop private healthcare facility. To this end we have employed a number of clinical specialists from a variety of medical, health and fitness disciplines.
Specialities : Specialist areas: Sports Injury, Hands, Shoulders, Womens Health, Backs,Necks, Whiplash, Orthopaedics, Hydrotherapy, Lower Limb, Obstetrics, Massage Therapy, Rheumatology, Exercise Physiology, Occupational Health
Directions to The Healthworks Clinic - Chichester
Osteopaths at The Healthworks Clinic - Chichester are happy to treat patients with any condition listed above.
Groin injury
Groin injuries are typically caused by a strain to the adductor muscles of the upper thigh. A tear to the muscle is most often the result of an abrupt stop or change of direction whilst running fully stretched out. Hence, the injury is common in sports such as football, rubgy and hockey. Once the torn the muscle tissue will swell and be sore to the touch. These are particularly nasty injuries because they take a long time to heal. The traditional approach to treatment - resting up, application of ice to reduce swelling, compression of the muscle with an elastic bandage and elevation - are hard to continue for long enough to have an effect. As a result patients frequently believe they are cured too quickly and aggravate the initial injury with another muscle tear becasue the first is not yet full-healed. Osteopaths recommend lots of stretching rehabilitative exercises to avoid this common problem.
Sucking Difficulty
A baby having difficulty feeding may be suffering from a nerve compression. Cranial osteopaths would be quick to look at the area at the base of the skull to determine if the nerve was affected. From an osteopathic perspective, a child that has or had difficulty latching-on to its mother's nipple during the first few weeks after birth is a potential indicator that there may be some compression of an important nerve that controls the tongue. Whilst the sucking problem may clear up after a few days or weeks, the issue of compression of the hypoglossal nerve - or indeed other nerves - may not actually be resolved fully in the intial period after birth. A detailed patient history for a child should certainly cover this issue even if the condition for which treatment is being sought is rather different.
