Michelle helps you to get back to functioning using gentle, hands on treatment & simple advice 👌
Osteopathy is a method of holistic diagnosis and treatment improving function, structural balance, range of movement and reducing pain.
20/11/2025
LATERAL RIB BREATHING 🫁👃👍
Improve your resting breathing, if you’re using the shoulder and neck area continuously to get a breath in, it can take its toll on those areas. Emphasis on nose breathing, getting breath down into lower lungs ribs and up to chest following this to fully fill, so many health benefits including spinal motion, digestion, relaxation, neck and shoulder tension
Credit to Patrick Mckeown, Kim Pritchard
19/09/2025
Not exactly what I had in mind for the kettle bell 🙄😆it makes an excellent doorstop, chair, step.. but anyway, do work those GLUTES! 💪🦵
07/09/2025
Breathe DOWN! Not up.. sounds obvious, but try it, it helps the breath expand the lower ribs.. which is what we want at rest. When possible, always use your nose to breathe👃 the benefits of this are far reaching 🫁🏃🏻♀️➡️🌳👌longer exhalation for calming the body🧘🏻♀️
04/09/2025
Mini reset; Drink a big glass of water, lay on your back, take 3 deep breaths. Cup your hands over your eyes. Not necessarily in that order !
02/09/2025
End of The Road festival was magical, even in the pouring rain 🤩🥳😍💃🏻back to work next week- let me know if you’re having trouble booking online! I’ve got a week to rehab my dancing feet 🦶😆
22/08/2025
If your body is crying out for you to rest, do listen! A cuppa in the garden can do wonders. Throw your phone in a cupboard for an hour or so. Take some soothing breaths.
If you’re feeling manic, your body can try to convince you to do 67 jobs per hour, eat a load of sugar and caffeine to power through, but sometimes we just need a blinkin minute to sit and breathe 🧘🏻♀️
16/08/2025
Sing, whistle and humming … all good vibrations for your lovely vagus nerve, you need to look after it, so it looks after you!
Calm, good digestion & mood are but a few benefits, from the proper functioning of this incredible, wandering cranial nerve.
Yoga, relaxation and breathing exercises are also great ways to stimulate this nerve .. with a focus on the long exhalation.. nose breathe for added benefit!
15/08/2025
Joy 🥰
31/07/2025
21/07/2025
While the kids prepare for ‘the North Pole train’ I’ll still be working Tuesday and Thursdays over the summer holidays 😀🙏 let me know if you need some help with heads shoulders knees and toes… and back pain of course 👍
09/07/2025
Wonderfully active day, treated some lovely patients, enjoyed the sunshine and I have an amazing new yoga mat 💚🙌😀midweek birthday not so bad 🚴🏻♀️🧘🏻♀️🍰🏖️🌳🌞
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Lush House, 64a Old Milton Road New Milton BH256DX
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Michelle is an osteopath who qualified from the University College of Osteopathy in London in 2014, and has since worked with people of all ages and backgrounds, from babies to the elderly. She is a caring and highly skilled practitioner with a huge breadth of knowledge from her multiple post-graduate courses as well as her 4-year master degree in Osteopathy.
She now practices from home offering video call consultations/telehealth, which is well suited to the current climate we find ourselves in! Michelle was shaped as a practitioner working hands on with the public over the years and through attending many pain science education courses and lectures, where she has found her passion. Michelle has emerged as a practitioner who really listens to your story, and loves to try to help patients uncover what is the driving factor behind the symptoms they’re experiencing. Michelle is passionate in helping and encouraging patients to uncover new ways of managing and improving their symptoms and using this to work towards their goals, whether this is getting back to gardening, standing to make the dinner, picking up your grandchild, getting back to a sport or just feeling more in control of your symptoms with a better understanding of them.
While hands on therapies have a lot to offer and is how Michelle has spent most of her career, it is the discussion, advice and demonstration of what is possible to patients, alongside reassurance and getting you moving under guidance, that has really led the way to recovery and improved management in Michelle’s experience. The hands on treatment that Michelle practiced before Covid-19, was based around mostly gentle articulation techniques, relaxing the patient and the body’s tissues. This is something that can be taught to a degree to patients from home, to achieve in different ways, with guidance and the will to want to change.
Manual therapy is changing, and as valuable as touch is, having a better knowledge of your body and your symptoms and pain, can be the key to really helping you get to where you want to for the longer term.
Online consultations are easy to access; you do not need any special software or device other than your computer/laptop/tablet to open a link to the video call. It is completely secure, confidential and in this current climate, saves you the need of venturing into a clinic; you can just relax in the comfort of your own home! Please see appointments and booking for further information.
Michelle has a passion for putting people at ease and finding out the truth behind something! She has a love of reading and travelling, especially where remote trekking and mountains loom. Michelle comes from a large loving family of five siblings, which led her desire to want to make people feel welcome, well looked after and she won’t give up until she’s made a positive difference.