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Devizes Osteopathic & Sports Injury Clinic
15 Bridewell Street, Devizes, Wiltshire
SN10 1NQ
01380 728453
Pewsey Osteopathic & Sports Injury Clinic
9 High Street, Pewsey, Wiltshire
SN9 5AF
01672 564646
When is Posture Relevant?
Posture is not the be all and end all, but may play an important role in your case. Everyone is different, so there's no such thing as one perfect posture, but there are potentially bad postures that can impact you in other ways. Kyphosis and Lordosis When viewed from...
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Tension
If you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), you may notice that it has some physical manifestations for you alongside the mental ones. Any period of stress has the capacity to cause muscular tension. For you that might mean tension in the shoulders, up into...
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Osteopathy
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) is an autoimmune condition that causes widespread pain and stiffness, particularly around the shoulders and hips. It’s a condition that's easily mistaken for other forms of arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis, but the appropriate...
Alcohol and Pain
Have you ever noticed your pain reducing while drinking alcohol? Or do you actually find that your pain is worse the morning after a social evening? How Alcohol Affects Pain Context is important- if you're a social drinker you might find that drinking coincides with...
Constipation among Children
Constipation may affect up to a third of the paediatric population in the UK. For younger children it may be easier to identify while they still need help with using the loo but knowing what is normal and what is not his key to knowing when to intervene. What...
Sciatica in Pregnancy
There are a number of changes during pregnancy that can make sciatica more likely to occur. Between a changing centre of gravity, a growing bump, and hormonal changes, the odds may be stacked against you. But sciatica is not always an inevitability, and earlier...
The Fight or Flight Response
The fight or flight response in the nervous system's reaction to threat. In the short term it can be helpful, lifesaving even. But in the modern world, where threats tend to require a longer term, cognitive reaction, this primal response can be more harmful than...
HVT: Clicking Joints
HVT, or "clicking" is a technique a lot of patients would put down as a core part of their osteopathic treatment. But what really happens when we click a joint? The Aims of HVT This is a tool we have to get quick results in increasing movement and potentially relaxing...
Upper Cross Syndrome
When there's an X-shaped pattern of tension around the neck and shoulders, it's known as Upper Cross Syndrome. Like Lower Cross Syndrome, this causes a change in posture and can lead to aches and pains. Symptoms of Upper Cross Syndrome This syndrome is associated with...
Lower Cross Syndrome
Lower crossed syndrome is a pattern of muscle weakness and tension around the pelvis. It can be associated with lower back, pelvis, or hip pain. The Tension-Weakness Pattern Lower crossed syndrome is characterised by: weak abdominal muscles tight lower back muscles...
Knee Cap Pain and Problems
The knee cap is a floating bone: it sits in the tendon formed by the quadriceps muscles and slides over the main knee joint. The mobile nature of the joint makes it more prone to dislocation and misalignment than other joints. Patella Maltracking When the knee cap...
EDS: Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a collection of various connective tissue disorders. Although considered rare, they cause aches, pains, and other complications that often cause patients to seek osteopathic treatment; so we see a lot of EDS patients, relatively...
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