One of the more common sentences we hear when we ask patients what makes their pain worse is ‘the cold’ or ‘when it gets damp’. A lot of people who suffer from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis also report that the weather affects their joints. In fact 2/3 of people who have musculoskeletal pain will report […]
Our osteopaths in Bath treat knee pain pretty much every day, we use various methods including manual therapy, acupuncture, and exercise to help people with all levels of pain to get back on their feet. Someone recently asked us what are the most important things to know about getting rid of knee pain, this got […]
Osteoarthritis (or OA) is a ‘wear and repair’ condition of joints. Our joints are always going through a process of wear, and repair, and sometimes this process causes changes to the shape and function of a joint. We would expect most people’s joints to change as we go through life, these are normal changes and […]
As part of having an osteopathic consultation usually requires the patient to have the affect bit of their body exposed so the osteopath can examine it, a very common (possibly very British) reaction is for the patient to apologise for something about their body. Sometimes it’s toenails, other times it could be a scar, but […]
