Osteopathy can help provide relief for the body’s structural, mechanical and functional problems in people of all ages. Here are just a few examples:

• Headaches
• Neuralgia and sinus pain
• Whiplash, spondylosis, tension pains
• Frozen shoulder
• Tennis and golfers elbow
• Back problems i.e. sciatica and referred pain
• Rheumatic and arthritic conditions can also be eased
• Pregnancy and symptoms associated with this e.g. nausea, heartburn, backache
• Musculo-skeletal problems arising in infants and older children
• Sports injuries

Many osteopaths help treat women throughout their pregnancies to help relieve the symptoms induced by altered posture and weightbearing.   In babies, a difficult or long drawn out birth may cause restrictions and tensions within tissues that lead to a degree of discomfort which may manifest, for example, as unsettled behaviour.  In older children, problems might arise though excessive computer use, hunching over a laptop, or through carrying heavy bags to and from school. However these issues arise, osteopathy is well placed to address them.

Giving a list of conditions that osteopaths help treat can sometimes give a false picture. Osteopaths treat people, not conditions and we are able to help in many ways when a person's function is affected by their structure, however that manifests.