Joint pains, rheumatic and arthritic pain

Many of our patients consult us for arthritic pain. Many people mistakenly assume that the symptoms of arthritis are untreatable and that they’ll have to learn to live with pain and stiffness.

It is true that the arthritic changes in your joints cannot be reversed but in many cases Osteopathic treatment may relieve the pain and improve your quality of life.

Osteopathic treatment works by relieving muscle tension and improving joint flexibility.

The osteopathic approach can be applied to all your joints

Knees, hips, wrists, ankles, feet, hands, shoulders or spine. Osteopaths can assess and treat all joints in people of all ages.

Your joint pain may be the result of:

a past injury
the overuse of the joint due to a sport, your job or your posture
an inflammatory disease
an inherited trait

We will take into account the way in which your joint problems developed and work out a treatment plan to suit you.

Treatment may include:

After we’ve assessed the causes of your problems and worked out what you need, treatment may include the following:

explaining what we think is causing your symptoms
giving you some manual treatment such as physical manipulation, stretching, massage, acupuncture or the very gentle cranial technique.
showing you some simple exercises, where necessary
giving you general lifestyle tips
and specific “do’s and don’ts” for your area of pain
offering you maintenance treatment if your symptoms are likely to return in the longer term