You can visit an Osteopath once or twice a year to prevent the arising of problems.
Emotional (grief…) or mechanical trauma (car accident, a fall...) can leave marks in the body without the person being aware of it.
Also because you could detect any weakness or recurrent organic or mechanical disorder (recurrent cough, cold, stiff shoulder, recurrent tiredness post vaccination,…).
Osteopathy is also useful all along growth and sports training.
When the body is in pain, it is already late.
Osteopathy can help a woman throughout her life. It can help with painful or irregular menstrual cycles, with digestive problems, back pains, migraines, cystitis, acne. It can also help adapting to contraception, to regulate hormonal fluctuations, with pelvis or gynaecological pains and stiffness, pre or post-surgery (cyst, miscarriage,...), fertility issues, menopause.
Osteopathy can help the future mother all along her pregnancy while she undergoes strong mechanical and hormonal modifications which can be taxing on a woman’s body.
This can create back or coccyx pains, symphysis pubis disorder (SPD), sciatica, or digestive problems (reflux, constipation, nausea...), circulatory disorders (haemorrhoids, heavy legs, headaches).
It can also help changing and improving the baby’s position in the body.
Osteopathy can also help the mother with post-partum or lactation issues.
Osteopathy can also be performed on babies and children.
The birth is not easy and the baby can suffer during the birth process.
A baby naturally comes into this world with a system that it is not fully developed. This can cause issues and the baby may need some help.
A long labour, tools such as forceps or vacuum or a C-section can also be hard on a baby.
You can bring your baby from an early age for digestive troubles (reflux, constipation, bowels pains), sleep and mood problems, breathing disorders, morphologic issues (torticollis, flat skull called plagiocephaly, foot or hip malformation, stiffness...), delay of psychomotor development (crawling, standing, falling...), primitive reflexes disorders, breastfeeding problems, otitis, rhinitis, eczema, teeth delay...
Older children can also benefit from Osteopathy as they grow.
Osteopathy can help with school changes, learning disorders, dyslexia, ADHD, mood disorders, wearing of glasses or braces, recover after a strong flu or bug episode…
Sport activities, our jobs or hobbies affect the mechanical functioning of our body in different ways.
The Osteopath will detect the mobility issue caused by repetitive strain or an injury (tear, tendinitis, fracture, sprain).
It will prevent further damage and it will strengthen the body for future sport activities.
Organic weaknesses or old injuries can also affect your posture and mechanical effort.
It is also useful for young children who are involved, from a very young age, in sports such as Gaelic football or soccer.
Finding and adapting to each body and mind specificities, the Osteopath can receive all kinds of people with any physical disability (wheelchair, spina bifida, prosthetic, …) or psychological disabilities (Down syndrome, autism…).
As the body and the vital functions slow down, Osteopathy is useful for older people to maintain their full range of mobility and therefore their tonicity, vitality.
It will also help in detecting their weaknesses and therefore to strengthen their immune system to prevent from or recover after an illness, a fall, from rheumatic pains...
Cats, dogs,horses and all others can also benefit from Osteopathy care for all the same reasons as human beings (home consultation).