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What Causes Back Pain?

January 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Back Pain

Back pain is a common problem affecting literally millions of people. It can range from minor, temporary pain, to sustained pain in different parts of the back, neck or shoulders or involve the pinching of nerves, affecting the legs or arms.   The causes of sciatica vary and can often be a combination of [...]

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Can An Osteopath Really Solve The Upper Back/ Neck Pain Which Results In Tension Headache?

December 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Pain

I’ve been visiting a recommended and highly qualified osteopath for the last year in order to get help with re-occurring pain which rises from in between my shoulder blades, into the back of my neck and shoulders, and causes me to experience dull but persistant headaches.
Although the visits to the osteopath do bring some [...]

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Went To See Osteopath – Should I Be In Pain?

November 16th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Pain

I have neck pain and upper back and shoulder pain, a few different people recommended I go see an Osteopath. So I went yesterday – however what was an uncomfortable aching is now a sever, very very painful, can’t move properly pain.
Is this right? I expected miracle cures (silly of me I know) but at [...]

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Osteopathy â?? Treatment Of Golferâ??s Elbow

August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Shoulder

Golfers elbow is also known as medial epicondylitis and is the less common sister condition of tennis elbow, both conditions sharing the tendon degenerative nature without inflammation. They are referred to as tendinopathies due to the pathological changes which occur inside the tendon without an inflammatory process. Not just occurring in golfers, golfers elbow also [...]

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The Treatment of Wrist Fractures by Osteopaths

August 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Shoulder

When the weather begins to get icy it gets less safe underfoot and people start to fall over and hurt themselves. A common injury is a fall on the outstretched hand (FOOSH) which often results in wrist fracture. When we say wrist fracture we are usually describing a fracture of the end of the radius [...]

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