15/04/2018
I love being an osteopath! If you love being treated by an osteopath help us out (this week is Osteopathy awareness week!) by sharing with friends and families who might benefit from Osteopathy.
Although it's not always the easiest job, the many wonderful people I meet make up for all of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful bunch of patients who inspire me to improve remind me every day how luck I am to be an Osteopath.
Osteopaths aren't allowed to work in hospitals so instead we work in private practice. As small businesses patient referrals from word of mouth are our lifeline - if Osteopathy has helped you or someone you know then please share far and wide so that Osteopathy can grow as a profession and help even more people.
Faye x
This week is Osteopathy Awareness week 15th - 21st April and to help understand what osteopathy is, lets take a look at the founder Dr. AT Still.
Dr. Still was a medically trained doctor who began to see, first hand, the shortcomings of medicine at the time. He was an astute observer of nature and began to think about how the self healing capacity in nature should also apply to the body. He reasoned that if the tissues had an adequate supply of nutrient rich blood and efficient removal of waste then health would be the result. With an extraordinary knowledge of anatomy and physiology he began to remove drugs out of his practice and treat patients with his hands. So profound were the results he was obtaining that he was quickly inundated with patients from around the country, flocking to the small city of Kirksville for treatment. Soon a school was established to train other practitioners to cope with the ever increasing patient load.
Osteopathy has changed over the last 140 odd years, but the fundamental philosophy of treating the body as a whole and removing mechanical obstruction to normal physiology remains.
If you've experienced benefit from osteopathic treatment, then tag someone else who might and help us .
