Osteopathic Treatment Can Provide Benefit For a Wide Range of Symptoms…

People seek osteopathic treatment for all sorts of reason, usually because they have a specific pain or area of discomfort that is not seeming to get better by itself.  An osteopath has been trained to look for areas of tension throughout the whole body and often when treatment is given to relieve that tension, a reduction in symptoms is reported.

When osteopaths examine babies and children, areas of tension can often be found in the spine or the head, indicating that they are feeling uncomfortable.  A baby or small child can't explain that they have a backache or headache and will often express this by crying and being unsettled, or irritable.

In a research study carried out by Clive Hayden,  in to the effects of cranial osteopathic treatment on babies, some parents perceived the following changes in their children's behaviour.  Reduced colicky crying, improved sleep, less irritable behaviour, less unsettled irritable behaviour and increased quiet happy spells.