The Vale Osteopath

Vale Osteopath offering an integrated rehabilitation service, with the added benefit of sports massage, personal training and nutritional advice.

Osteopathy focuses on the musculo-skeletal system (the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments and connective tissue) and the way in which this inter-relates with the body as a whole. It combines scientific knowledge of anatomy and physiology and clinical methods of investigation.

Osteopaths diagnose and treat faults which occur because of injury, stress or perhaps disease, to enable the musculo-skeletal system to work as efficiently as possible, allowing the body to restore itself to normal function. A caring approach and attention to the individual is considered particularly important.

After treatment, an osteopath can advise on maintaining a realistic level of health and avoiding those things which might be damaging. For example, remedial exercises to adjust posture or advice on diet and lifestyle can be given.

Osteopathy is a fully regulated profession which means that only practitioners who have been properly trained and are able to show that they have been in a safe and competent practice, are allowed onto the register and must abide by a strict code of ethics and practice.