Osteopathy, and Sport, How it Works

The human body is a dynamic entity that delivers its agency through movement. As an Osteopath I believe that enabling a person to deliver the most from their active body is key to my role. This is particularly true of sports people. 

My Approach to Osteopathy is focussed on understanding the patient’s dynamic chain, looking at how they move, from their foot to their head. 

I will take a detailed history, paying particular attention to changes in training or performance around the time of injury and always look for why this patient, why this problem and why now? This ensures that I not only address the point of pain, but the underlying mechanism by which the injury occurred. 

Wherever possible I will try and view the person performing their sport and liaise with coaches and trainers in trying to establish an appropriate strategy for return to full competition or competitive improvement. 

I am integrative in my approach, taking the best elements from other disciplines and applying them within the osteopathic framework. 

I will often prescribe exercises and build personalised orthotics to assist in patients' recovery and performance improvement.