Richmond Osteopaths provides Physiotherapy. We are a friendly team that are passionate about Physiotherapy, Osteopathy and Sports Therapy.
We would like to talk about Physiotherapy.
What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy looks at the movement of your muscles ...
Movement is the key to optimal health and well-being. It is evolutionary.
Our bodies are naturally designed to be active and dynamic, however the tendency in this modern age is to neglect this and remain relatively sedentary - often for longer periods of time ...
If you don’t have a strong aversion to needles then dry needling is fantastic method for reducing pain!
However, it is not to be confused with Chinese acupuncture. What is the difference between Chinese acupuncture and dry needling is a question that comes up ...
There are tons of running tips and advice out there for new runners (like myself) and also experienced runners. My advice is to make sure that you use it. Use what makes sense to you, stick with it but keep asking for advice in order to change it. Change is as ...
As an Osteopath I am very passionate about my work. I had an interesting case on hip pain and I thought I would share it with you. I have been treating a young gentleman with chronic hip pain that would not subside. If you have ever had nagging hip pain you will ...
I have seen a couple of office workers today at Richmond Osteopaths with acute wrist pain. They have just come back from holiday and have resumed their crazy work schedules, both are young ladies between 30-40 years of age and most importantly they are computer ...
Having carried out a number of workstation assessments at a local office recently, I was provided with a stark reminder of how the human body is just not designed to stay in one position for any length of time. We simply must keep moving constantly - see Claire's ...
Physiotherapy and Osteopathy. What is the difference?
A lot of our patients ask what the difference is between physiotherapy and osteopathy. To this day I don't have a clear cut answer, and I am both a physiotherapist and an osteopath. I would say that they are very similar in that they are both manual therapies but ...
Over the last two weeks I have been treating a top triathlete who had back pain and was struggling to run at his fastest pace. He explained that every nine miles of running he had a bit of pain that started around his left groin area and slowly moved up towards ...
When low back pain strikes it is very tempting to lie down when one has an acute episode and simply try not to move! It is an immediate response. The body tells you it is in intense pain and if it is severe enough we may not even want to move your little finger in ...
At Richmond Osteopaths we are always trying to find a solution for the long hours that a lot of our patients spend at a desk. Unfortunately, there isn't a perfect solution. We could advise people to move to a desert island where it is warm and bright and where ...
I have worked incredibly hard on getting my article on fatigue testing on basketball players completed and I felt an incredible sense of satisfaction when we managed to get my scientific article published in journals of sports medicine and physical fitness.
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