Tag: health
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Understanding Craniosynostosis: Causes and Treatments
Craniosynostosis is when the sutures of the skull (the joints between skull bones) fuse together too early. Although this condition is very rare, we saw two little ones in January who both have craniosynostosis so it feels appropriate to raise awareness and explain the part that osteopathy can play in caring for babies before and…
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Headaches, Migraines and Osteopathy.
The three of us went to a great learning event on Monday hosted by our local Osteopathic society and run by Mark McWilliams, founding member of Osteopaths for the progress of headaches and migraines (www.ophm.org). It was a great reminder for all of us about how skilled we are in diagnosing and treating headaches and…
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How do we have health even when we feel like S**T
On our website we mention that health for some people is running marathons and health for others is being able to potter in the garden pain free, these are both entirely valid experiences of health. These definitions for ourselves may be influenced by age, fitness, how we see ourselves, previous experiences, family influence, illness etc …
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Mental health awareness week, A Journal?…
I wanted to write something a little more human this week, less practitioner to patient and more slightly muddled human, in a slightly muddled world, with other slightly muddled humans. I also notice the irony of just having read a book called Selfie, talking about the danger of increased individualism and narcissism in the west…
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Internal vs External environments, and our Health.
You may have heard the saying ‘if a plant isn’t flourishing, change the environment, not the plant’… Granted, in relation to human health, you can change what’s in our external environment to help our health improve, remove clutter, surround yourself with people who support you, reduce stress. Luckily for us, we aren’t plants, we have…
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Frome Valley Osteopaths and LGBTQ+ healthcare…
Support for the LGBTQ+ community is something that is very close to my heart, for obvious reasons. I came out in my mid 20s and I have been with my wife for the last decade. Being part of a community that is now around 2million people in the UK, means a shared experience in some…
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Osteopathy, how can it help you?
OK so of course I’m biased, I spent 4 years at university studying and have been enmeshed in Osteopathy for the better part of my adult life, the last 13 years. Osteopathy is pretty incredible, and I have seen it help support positive changes in the lives of MANY patients. But how can it help…
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Grief, it’s more than bereavement…
Grief is a pretty universal experience, the only thing guaranteed in life is death, and I don’t mean that in a morbid way, it just is… Death, although as a society we are understandably terrified of it, is just the balance to life. Now just because something is extremely normal doesn’t mean the feelings around…
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Embodiment and the importance of cycles/seasons…
So writing today feels like its been a while! and it kind of has been, for 2 months I managed to write (on average) 2 articles a week, for the last month, I have tried to have ideas, but my brain was having non of it, I couldn’t sit to write, I had no ideas,…
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Polyvagal theory, Osteopathy and Trauma.
Trigger warning for sexual violence. Polyvagal theory has been developed by Stephen Porges, it is allowing a much deeper understanding of what happens to our bodies day to day, and how they get ‘stuck’ as a result of Trauma. Polyvagal theory is important to me as an Osteopath as it helped me realise the importance…
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