How can we help you?
Here at MK Osteopaths we can offer you the following treatments with our brilliant team who are dedicated to providing a tailored treatment suited to your needs, activity & injury – it doesn’t have to be a sports injury, we can help with most aches & pains!
Sports Massage
A focused, deep tissue massage paying specific attention to problem areas & using a variety of massage techniques.
Sports Therapy
All of the above plus: includes an assessment of your musculoskeletal system, exercise rehab (advice on how to continue your recovery with stretches, strengthening & postural adjustments) & treatment may involve additional soft tissue & muscle energy release techniques.
Osteopathy
Includes all of the above plus neurological & orthopedic testing if required. Treatments may involve additional joint mobilisation & manipulative techniques (“clicking”).
Prenatal and Postnatal Treatment
With so many physical and hormonal changes occurring in your body throughout the pre and post-natal period it is not unusual to experience pain at some point. Indeed it is so common to be in pain during pregnancy that it can be accepted as normal. This should not need to be the case!
What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a way of detecting, treating and preventing health problems by moving, stretching and massaging a person’s muscles and joints. Osteopathy is based on the principle that the well being of an individual depends on their bones, muscles, ligaments and connective tissue functioning smoothly together. As Osteopaths we use physical manipulation, stretching and massage, with the aim of:
- increasing the mobility of joints
- relieving muscle tension
- enhancing the blood supply to tissues
- helping the body to heal
Osteopaths use a range of techniques, but don’t use drugs or surgery.
What do Osteopaths treat?
Osteopathy can be used to treat
- Generalised aches and pains
- Joint pains, including hip and knee pain from osteoarthritis
- Arthritic pain
- General, acute and chronic back ache, back pain (not arising from injury or accident)
- Uncomplicated mechanical neck pain (as opposed to neck pain following injury ie whiplash)
- Headache arising from the neck (cervicogenic)
- Frozen shoulder, shoulder and elbow pain, golfers elbow, tennis elbow (lateral epicoindylitis) arising from associated musculoskeletal conditions of the back and neck, but not isolated occurrences
- Hip pain
- Foot and ankle pain
- Circulatory problems
- Cramp
- Joint pains
- Lumbago
- Sciatica
- Muscle spasms
- Neuralgia
- Fibromyalgia
- Rheumatic pain
- Minor sports injuries and tensions
The General Osteopathic Council
MK Osteopath are registered with the General Osteopathic Council who regulate the practice of osteopathy in the United Kingdom. The General Osteopathic Council work with the public and osteopathic profession to promote patient safety by registering qualified professionals, and setting, maintaining and developing standards of osteopathic practice and conduct.
