General Health & Lifestyle Advice
Osteopathy is an holistic discipline. This means we try to look at the patient as a whole (as much as one can), and consider the impact of as many factors in your health as possible.
While it is important to remain aware of, and within, one's area of expertise (in this case, musculoskeletal health), it also important to recognise that poor sleep, nutrition, work/home stresses and strains etc. contribute significantly to the sorts of problems people come to see us with.
Osteopathy is a university degree/honours level program, and in the course of the extensive training we will cover nutrition, over-the-counter and prescription drugs, sleep and breathing issues, and a host of other related areas of theory and practice. Your osteopath may not have completed post-graduate training in these areas - we are not qualified to advise you on your medications, for example, although we can tell you how they work and why. However, we can offer general advice and, if necessary, refer out to appropriate specialists (if we feel any of these issues are impacting on your presenting problem) while keeping to our areas of competence and expertise. For those of you who don't know how I feel about professionals of any stripe who do that, head over to our blog to find out!
While it is important to remain aware of, and within, one's area of expertise (in this case, musculoskeletal health), it also important to recognise that poor sleep, nutrition, work/home stresses and strains etc. contribute significantly to the sorts of problems people come to see us with.
Osteopathy is a university degree/honours level program, and in the course of the extensive training we will cover nutrition, over-the-counter and prescription drugs, sleep and breathing issues, and a host of other related areas of theory and practice. Your osteopath may not have completed post-graduate training in these areas - we are not qualified to advise you on your medications, for example, although we can tell you how they work and why. However, we can offer general advice and, if necessary, refer out to appropriate specialists (if we feel any of these issues are impacting on your presenting problem) while keeping to our areas of competence and expertise. For those of you who don't know how I feel about professionals of any stripe who do that, head over to our blog to find out!