Osteopathy & back awareness week 2010

Eva Gorska

The 11th to 17th October is Back Awareness Week 2010.
As a local family osteopath, based in Stapleton Hall Rd, I'm offering a clininc special from the 11th to the end of October.

1st osteopathic assessment and treatment (1hr) for £30 (normally £45).

Osteopaths work to restore your body to a state of balance by using a wide range of gentle manipulations, depending on your age, fitness and diagnosis. Stretching and soft tissue techniques are also used to increase the mobility of joints, to relieve muscle tension, to enhance the blood and nerve supply to tissues, and to help your body’s own healing mechanisms. Advice is often provided on posture and exercise to aid recovery, promote health and prevent symptoms reoccurring.

The most common conditions that we treat are:
• Back and neck pain
• Shoulder and arm pain
• Pelvis, hip and leg problems
• Sports and other injuries
• Pregnancy related back and pelvic pain
• Work related strains

To book an appointment or find out more call Eva Gorska (registered osteopath, BSc Ost, BSc Sport Science) on 07815 781037 or email eva@gorskaosteopathy.co.uk

dorothy

I saw Eva for a session. £30 for an hour is quite a bargain. She's very good. I've got the 'mouse shoulder', problem. She did lots of (mobilising) cracking, and I skipped home.

puzzlebobble

Snake Oil Merchants.

"The most common conditions that we treat are:"

Sneaky use of the word "treat". Wouldn't it have been more useful to have a list of things that the evidence shows are actually made better?

"enhance the blood and nerve supply to tissues"

how exactly does one enhance the nerve supply to tissues? Any evidence for that?

Bogus charlatan

Eva Gorska

Ok Puzzlebobble I must respond.......

I feel I need to respond to this last comment, you see I’m not particularly keen on that endearing term of ‘Snake Oil Merchant’ or ‘Bogus Charlatan’.

All osteopaths practicing in the UK have completed rigorous training, having to complete a four or five-year degree course which is similar to a medical degree, with more emphasis on anatomy and musculoskeletal medicine and includes more than 1,000 clinical hours of training.
By law, osteopaths must register with the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) which is the statutory regulator for osteopathy in the UK and is one of the nine healthcare regulators in the UK. (http://www.osteopathy.org.uk).
GOsC’s powers were given to them by Parliament under the Osteopaths Act 1993. It is an offence for anyone to call themselves an osteopath if they are not registered and they set the benchmark standards of what’s required to gain and maintain registration including ongoing CPD etc. The British Medical Association’s guidance for general practitioners states that doctors can safely refer patients to osteopaths.

As for improving nerve supply to tissues....
Here we go.....there are many instances where the body suffers radiculopathies or neuropathies (compression / irritation of nerves) causing localised and referred pain. This directly affects the tissues supplied by that nerve(s) whether it is the skin, organ or muscle. Common examples of these would be carpal tunnel syndrome (often seen in too much mouse and pc work or during pregnancy), piriformis syndrome (common in footballers), and the favourite sciatica (pain down the leg due to compression/ irritation of the sciatic nerve sometimes as a result of disc prolapse). The list goes on..... As osteopaths we work to decrease or eliminate the causes of the neuritis leading to improved nerve supply to tissues, most manual medicine practitioners will be aiming to do this to a greater or lesser extent (including chiropractors and physiotherapists).

Backed by evidence based research the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence issued a report in May 2009 of recommendations to the NHS advocating osteopathic treatment as one of the disciplines to aid patient’s management of back pain.
The National Council for Osteopathic Research (NCOR) was constituted in 2003 in order to explore and assure the place that osteopathy has to play in Healthcare.

Apologies for the extended rant.

And I hope the unwarranted comment by Puzzlebobble hasn’t put others off experiencing the potential benefits of osteopathy.

ShaunG

If I had a mouse in my shoulder I might be desperate enough to try anything.

JaneDoe

I went to see Eva at the beginning of this week and thought my first visit was great. She spent time to explain everything and answer all my questions and I walked out without a bad back for the first time in ages. Since then my back pain is much reduced and I will be returning for more fine tuning. Heartily recommended!