Workington Osteopaths

Workington Osteopaths Tel: 01900 603034
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Email Enquires:
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Workington Osteopaths has been established for 24 years and is conveniently located on the edge of the town centre in Workington. If you are looking for an osteopath, we can offer you professional and effective treatment to help relieve your symptoms and restore your health as quickly as possible.

15/06/2025

Good evening everyone. We have updated our website where you can now find more details of the practice including the three osteopaths working here, our invaluable reception staff and what types of problems people, of all ages, come to see us with.. Between us we have almost a 100 years (gulp!) of working in healthcare so we are confident we can provide a caring and professional service.
Appointments can be made by telephoning 01900 603034 and if you reach our answer phone please leave your name and contact number and we will return your call as soon as we can.

13/08/2022

Here's some more information about Kate Warrior, the most recent osteopath to join us here at the practice;

Kate graduated from the European School of Osteopathy in Kent in 2021 having previously graduated with a degree in Sports Rehabilitation from the University of Cumbria in 2017 and has
gained lots of experience working with sports-related injuries, especially rugby.

Kate works with both structural (including manipulation) and cranial osteopathic approaches and treats patients of all ages, from the new born to the elderly. She is also qualified to use Dry Needling.

Finding a treatment approach that most suits the needs of each patient is her priority.

22/07/2022

We are pleased to announce that there is now increased appointment availability at Workington Osteopaths. It has been a challenging two years and we wish to thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we have tried to maintain the best service we could in trying circumstances. We are delighted to welcome another osteopath, Kate, to the practice and hope she will be very happy here in West Cumbria.

13/07/2020

We are pleased to say that having just about caught up with our backlog we can declare the practice officially reopen. If you would like an appointment please telephone on our usual number 01900 603034 and we will endeavour to see you as soon as we can. There is only myself working as an osteopath at present and we have had to make changes to how we work so we ask for your patience as we cannot offer appointments as promptly as we were able to previously.
Best Wishes to everyone.

06/04/2020

In my previous posting I noted that it was important to ‘remember to breathe’ when you are experiencing pain but breathing is also a fantastic calming resource when you are in all kinds of discomfort - from the physical agony of a sore lower back or neck to the aches and pains associated with emotional stress. With the current situation there is, inevitably, a lot of associated worry and anxiety, which for many people can manifest as wide ranging symptoms from headaches, stomach aches and back aches to name just a few.
One positive aspect now is that many of us have a little more time than is usual in our hectic lives and if you have a mind to, you can spend just a little of this time improving your breathing pattern and hence your body’s ability to cope with the stresses of life.

To start do nothing more than just notice your breathing - an activity that we do automatically without thinking about 20,000 times a day.
When we are struggling to cope with mental and physical stress commonly our breathing quickens, becomes shallow and the muscles of the neck and shoulders tense as we try and force air into our lungs.
An effective antidote to this process is to activate your diaphragm, the big muscle beneath the lungs.
To do this you can simply place you hand on your tummy and allow your in breath to blow your tummy outwards. It is often difficult at first but becomes much easier with practice (remember we all did it naturally as babies).
Then, as you blow out, your hand should follow your tummy down as it flattens.
Try to empty your lungs as much as you can because the out breath is when the part of your nervous system that calms and settles your body is in control.

A simple way of ensuring that the out breath is longer is to count the in breath for three seconds, hold for four seconds and breathe out for five. Repeat 5-6 times and notice how you feel.

02/04/2020

Today on the supermarket car-park I witnessed a lady clearly struggling with pain and visibly wincing as she exited the store, holding on to her lower back as she limped slowly back to her car. I offered her some advice from a socially acceptable distance and the encounter spurred me to put together some guidance on here for anyone who should have a similar misfortune.

Lower back pain is the most common reason that people consult osteopaths but in the current situation with the need for social distancing to slow the spread of coronavirus we are unable to offer face-to-face consultations and our usual hands-on treatment.

Therefore self-help is really important just now and if you are unfortunate enough to suffer an acute episode of pain, either for the first time in your life or if it’s all too familiar, here are a few thoughts that may be of help:

1) The pain may be sharp and horrible but it will pass in time. Remember to breath slowly and steadily.
2) If you have experienced similar pain before remember what helped you then.
3) Often a cold compress such as a freezer bag with ice or frozen veg (wrapped in a tea towel so the ice isn’t directly on your skin) or a purpose-built cold pack will help in the early stages, the earlier the better. Use frequently through the day for up to 5-10 minutes every hour over the first day or two.
4) Heat can help but often a few days after the first pain. Use for 10-15 minutes every 2 hours or so. Use a wheat bag or the traditional hot water bottle but not too hot!
5) In the early stages find a position of ease – often this will be lying down – try on your side with a cushion/pillow between your knees or on your back with a pillow underneath your knees
6) Keep moving regularly – this will help you get better sooner – it will hurt so move slowly – a slow walk for just a minute or two will help.
7) Use painkillers and anti-inflammatory medication in the early stages if you are OK to take it – if you are in any doubt seek advice.
8) The internet is awash with (mainly) well-intentioned advice but go very carefully with any recommended exercises when your back is improving but still feeling sore. Broadly speaking, gentle movements work best.

Remember that we are here to help, not in the usual way, but here nontheless.
Email, messenger and telephone are all effective methods of reaching us if you need any advice or reassurance.

Best Wishes to you all.

Barry

30/03/2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all staying safe and healthy and gradually getting used to this new way of living as best you can.

As part of the nationwide effort to limit and slow down the spread of coronavirus we are unable to offer face-to-face consultations at present but I am available to answer queries via email or through facebook and I will be also regularly collecting messages from our answer phone.

Meanwhile I thought I would use this platform to post some articles about topics that often turn up during my encounters with patients and which might be of interest and perhaps helpful in keeping you in reasonable condition in these unusual times.

I am guessing that the recent dry (but cold) weather coupled with the clocks springing forward will have seen some of you outside in the garden enjoying the fresh air and cracking on with all those jobs that you’ve been contemplating through the long wet winter. Whilst a fantastic way to exercise the body and clear the mind, gardening is also an activity that can provoke a few physical problems, particularly if enthusiasm and adrenaline leads to an unexpected 5-6 hour non-stop session! With this potential hazard in mind I thought I would share a few hints and tips that may help you stay in good shape whilst enjoying your marvellous outdoor pastime:

1) The best tip and one followed with great success by my exceptionally wise and wonderful wife is to mix up your activities. So before you start think about what you would like to do and list 4-5 tasks that require different movements and postures. Then do 10-30 minutes on the first job, down tools (literally) and move on to the second job, do the same and so on. You can do a few circuits if you like and a smart phone can be handy as a timer. The great advantage of this method is you avoid overusing particular parts of your body and hence avoid the pain associated with overuse that typically greets you the next day when you think you might have got away with it.
2) Take plenty of rest! This seems obvious but we often become a little too focussed on work in the garden and overlook the pleasure of stopping for a cuppa, having a look around, enjoying the surroundings and seeing what’s going on with the birds and other flora and fauna as Spring unfolds.
3) Use the best available tools for the job. This will make life easier and more enjoyable. Nice sharp, oiled cutting tools, long handled spades and forks, kneeling pads and those clever weeding devices all can help particularly if you know you have areas of your body that are less reliable than they used to be!

I hope some of this is useful. Meanwhile enjoy the outside when you can, soak up some vitamin D if and when the sun shines and stay well.

Barry

25/03/2020

A message to our patients.

Over the next couple of weeks we are going to work out how best to support our patients during this difficult time.

The practice is closed temporarily for face-to-face consultations but we are available for advice over the telephone and via email.
For instance we have had some interest in helping people with home work station assessments.
If anyone has any particular issues, questions or areas where they would like some advice and help, please contact us.

You can either leave us a message in the comments section below or email us at workingtonosteo@gmail or through the enquires email on our website.

Stay safe,

Barry, Judith and the Workington Osteopaths team

24/03/2020

Further to the previous post if anyone has any concerns that they think we can help with via email please contact us and we will do our best to help.

24/03/2020

We are still in the process of contacting all the patients that have existing appointments with us. If you are one of those people and you are reading this it would help us enormously if you could contact us by phone and leave a message or email via enquiries@workingtonosteo.co.uk or workingtonosteo@gmail.com.
It has been very difficult closing down the practice after 30 years but it was the right decision in the circumstances.
Very best wishes to everyone and keep safe and healthy

21/03/2020

TO ALL OUR PATIENTS;
After careful consideration of the government's latest advice about coronavirus and after gathering as much information as we can from other sources we have decided that in the best interests of protecting everyone's health we must CLOSE the practice for face to face consultations for an indefinite period. You are welcome to leave a message via phone or email because we will be answering those when we can. Over the next two days we will inform everyone who has an existing appointment booked in with us.
I think it is important for us to stress the importance of everyone staying at home as much as they possibly can for the forseeable future in order to try to slow the spread of coronavirus and help prevent our hospitals becoming over whelmed.
Best Wishes and stay well
Barry & Judith and all at Workington Osteopaths

17/03/2020

Following the government's announcements yesterday we would like to reassure our patients that at the moment the practice remains open. We shall continue to remain open for as long as we possibly can.

However, given the imminent stress for the NHS, it is more important than ever that we make the greatest contribution we can to keeping ourselves and our patients healthy.

SO PLEASE:
- if you have a persistent non-productive cough
- a high temperature
- have been in contact with a person with symptoms in the past seven days
- have returned from travel abroad in the last 2 weeks

PLEASE DO NOT come to the practice, but phone us instead.

If you are in a vulnerable group please consider very carefully whether your treatment is absolutely essential.
While we are taking every precaution we can, these precautions can never be guaranteed because we have lots of members of the public passing through the practice.

We will do everything we can to help everyone stay healthy - please help us by playing your part.

Thank you all and keep well!

Address

96 Harrington Road
Workington
CA142UW

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+441900603034

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