Petra Florence Osteopathy

04/09/2025

04/09/2025

I have a cancellation tomorrow Friday 5th September in Organico Bantry

15/08/2025

Cancellation available Monday 18th August in Organico Bantry. 0871531002 to book

02/08/2025

03/07/2025

Delighted to be working from Organico from next week

01/07/2025

Working from Organico, Bantry from 9th July

30/04/2025

Big news! We are moving back to West Cork at the end of June. I'm looking for a place to work from there. I'm also looking for someone to take over from me in Scariff and look after the lovely people in the area.

01/12/2024

Now moved to The East Clare Community Co-op, V94HPX9

06/09/2024

Cancellation appointments available next week. 0871531002 to book. Thanks

15/01/2024

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How lesions to peripheral nerves or spinal nerve roots present with sensory and/or motor deficits in the upper limb💡

📘 Lyon, S. (2022). Pictorial review of lesion localization for patients with stroke, upper limb and lower limb pathology. Neurology Education, 1(1), e200012. https://doi.org/10.1212/NE9.0000000000200012

👉 Reference
Glover NM, Murphy PB. Anatomy, shoulder and upper limb, radial nerve [updated 2021 Jul 27]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls
Publishing, 2022. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK534840/.

08/11/2023

ADRENALINE [STRESS] STIFFENS FASCIA!

New Scientist article excerpts
"Injury and inflammation aside, there are many other reasons why fascia may become stiff. Schleip’s research hints that activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which is involved in the body’s fight-or-flight response, causes the fascia to contract by prompting the fibroblasts within it to transform into myofibroblasts, cells that are part of the inflammatory response to injury, often seen in joint-related problems such as frozen shoulder.

The details of how exactly fight-or-flight stress leads to stiffness are still being worked out, but Schleip says that adrenaline seems to increase the expression of an inflammatory substance called TGF-beta. This is then stored in the loose fascia in preparation for the next time the body is stressed. When this happens, fibroblasts “drink [TGF-beta] and they become myofibroblasts in a few hours”, he says. “And then they are four times as strong as before. They are contraction machines. So, adrenaline can make fascia stiffer.”

In fact, the list of things that affect fascial stiffness is getting longer all the time. “Oestrogen is able to create a fascia that is more elastic,” says Stecco. “The fascia is a very dynamic tissue that is able to answer to hormonal input, chemical input and mechanical input. Altogether, that defines if our fascia is elastic or rigid.”"