Pregnancy & Babies

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New and expectant mothers can benefit from treatment for generalised muscular back and neck pain, sacro-iliac pain or SPD (symphysis pubic dysfunction).

Osteopathic treatment offers a gentle way of helping your body to adapt to the changes which take place during pregnancy and to relieve the aches and pains from carrying a growing baby.

Babies

Cranial osteopathy is a very gentle, safe and effective speciality of osteopathy that is particularly suited to treating babies.

Cranial Osteopathy is a system of diagnosis and treatment in which the osteopath’s highly trained sense of touch is used, together with a detailed case history, to identify and correct disturbances or limitations of tissue mobility, not only in and around the joints of the skull but throughout the body.

The tension and stress experienced during the birth process is normally resolved during the first few days as a baby feeds, yawns and cries, but sometimes this process is incomplete, particularly after a difficult birth. This may result in a baby seeming ‘unsettled’, favouring turning their head one way when sleeping, discomfort in the feeding position or having difficulties with digestion.

Children and Teenagers

Osteopathy can help the growing body to adapt to growth changes and accommodate the effects these will have on the musculo-skeletal system, which may be loaded by heavy school bags, posture using phones and laptops or from a particular sport.

We can also offer advice on posture and specific exercise so that these stresses have less chance of becoming a postural habit. This is particularly important in the teenage years for the development of a healthy spine.

Here at Southfields Osteopaths we plan treatments to suit your individual needs and offer advice on posture, self-help and appropriate exercises in order to prevent your symptoms reoccurring.

By taking a detailed medical case history, we consider your symptoms in the context of your health and your lifestyle. Then we can work together to devise a plan on how to prevent re-occurrence of the injury or strain to include tailored exercises to maintain the benefits of your treatment.

Osteopaths are highly trained healthcare professionals who are recognised by the NHS and BMA as a discrete clinical discipline and fully qualified to diagnose and treat independently.

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