As the Coronavirus-19 Pandemic descends on the inhabitants of Mother Earth, it becomes clear that maintaining the immune system is the key to maintaining health and longevity. There are many articles, podcasts, webinars, Instagram posts etc. about how best to keep your immune system strong. Our bodies were designed to withstand a daily barrage of…
Billie Eilish Needs a Good Osteopath
For those of you not following popular culture right now, Billie Eilish is a musical artist who has seriously shot to fame in the last year or so. Still under the age of 18, she is planning her world tour for 2020, which is already sold out. Some of you may have seen photos of…
Osteopathy Can Help Those with Unexplained Symptoms
It’s been a week with a common theme: “weird” symptoms that no doctor has been able to explain. An atypical headache, tooth pain in the absence of dental disease, dizziness with no identifiable cause. The testing is all negative, the diagnosis remains uncertain, there is no definitive treatment, yet the patients still feel what they…
An Osteopathic Approach to Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Problems of the pelvic floor are estimated to affect some 25 to 50 % of women depending on age, as well as a smaller percentage of men in the United States. The related diagnoses can include constipation or incontinence, dyspareunia, recurrent urinary tract infection, pelvic pain, coccydynia (pain of the coccyx or tailbone), prostatitis, cystitis,…
An Osteopathic Approach to Growing Pains
Growing pains are a common complaint in the younger child and adolescent. In fact, up to one in three children can experience this type of pain during their lifetime and, according to a 2007 report in Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, the peak age for growing pains is 6 years old. Growing pains are often reported…
An Osteopathic Approach to Treating Colic
Colic is a disorder of excessive, high-pitched crying that occurs at least three hours per day, for at least three days a week, for a minimum of three weeks. The crying baby is usually inconsolable, in discomfort and gets little sleep. It can be extremely stressful for the caregivers and other family members. There have…