Medway Osteopathic Clinic

30/04/2026

I keep seeing boards of posts that have nothing to do with the clinic.
Ring 01634 814700 for appointments.
We still have a few left this week.
Don't forget Saturdays I only work until 1pm (it is a bank. Holiday weekend for us too) :)

30/04/2026

10 appointments available before Saturday 1pm

I'm so consistent, posting twice in two weeks on the subject :D

23/04/2026

After the response to yesterday's post about available appointments I think I may post available appointments regularly on a Wednesday.
Everyone who booked yesterday found a space to suit them and didn't think there would be no chance of them getting an appointment.
I'll give it a try and see if people find it of benefit.

22/04/2026

Just a heads up:
There are still 10 appointment spaces available this week.
Ring 01634 814700 if you want one.
Please don't text, email or WhatsApp for an appointment, just ring

18/04/2026

"But why think? Why not run the experiment?"
This was from the famous promotor of the scientific method in medicine: John Hunter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunter_(surgeon)
I bang on about not using ice or heat but rather cold water to help repair strained tisues.
A patient told me today he had a bottle of cold water to hand to help him through the day, putting on his back to help with the pain whenever.
Much improved through the week though he still used the wet flannel before bed techique.
It's your body and usually it's what you do that hurts you so ... Run the experiment.

John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of t...

13/04/2026

Advertising is strange.
When the Yellow Pages used to be the go to you just rang them and paid for an ad. Sorted.
Now everyone seems to need X, Twitter, Facebook, TickTock and/ or
your own websites ... ad infinitum as it were :D

10/04/2026

O2 are the clinic phone providers. They closed down in the area today from 8am and are due back by 8pm.
I switched the 01634 814700 number to another provider for today but if you use the mobile number for the clinic you would have heard number unobtainable.
Normal insanity should be restored tomorrow.

09/04/2026

I'm a Classical Osteopath.
Classical osteopathy was built on the way the body works - physiology.
Medicine is based on the way the body breaks down - pathology.
Medicine's toolkit is medication, surgery and associated secondary disciplines surrounding the application of both.
The toolkit of the osteopath is ADJUSTMENT - working out what changes in body structure, diet, exercise, lifestyle and work that will help the body heal quicker. Most of the time this means getting rid of pain first. Soreness is a common response to being pulled around and most patients benefit from the effects of cold water used to improve local drainage of damaged areas

08/04/2026

Warm today isn't it?
Gardeners beware.
Once you have done too much don't forget to book in to get your body working again.
You are not too old, just too broken :D

26/03/2026

Location, location, location is the mantra for success, allegedly. :)
One of my brothers decided to wind down the amount of work he and his wife were doing as they were getting older and the kids had left home.
They sold the large house they had been running their clinic from - he was an osteopath, she a chiropodist - and rent a small shop in the high street while buying a small cottage in a nearby village to live in.
Of course, as the saying goes "men make plans and Gods laugh". They were swamped with work at their new site despite having been the only osteopath and chiropodist in the town for years.
After a few years they gave up and retired from looking after people. Now they look after their land.

I've been working from my house in City Way since 1988 and I'm not as busy as I used to be.
Perhaps it's time I moved to a High Street shop?

Your thoughts please

18/03/2026

Osteopathy and Meningitis.
We can't pretend to cure it.
Meningitis killed 400 people in Britain in 2025.
About 1 in 10 die once they become ill with it. In 2000-2001 about 2,500 died with it in Britain.
Bacterial meningitis used to be a constant problem for the Maori in NewZealand.
It was a plague in America after the Civil War, killing 3 of the children of Dr Andrew Tayor Still. He abandoned medicine, saying "How can I treat children suffering from this when I can't even my own alive?"
His studies in engineering that he went into after medicine triggered the formation of what became osteopathy.

18/03/2026

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