When and Who can Consult your Osteopath
Children and Infants
The osteopath handles your child with gentle techniques to eliminate tension or inconvenience related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Children may experience inconvenience. In their body as in that of the adult, one dysfunction can quickly lead to another.
- Birth deformities of the skull
- Reflux, regurgitation
- colic, constipation
- Sleeping troubles
- Sucking problems
- Recurrent otitis, rhinitis or sinusitis
- Signs of congenital torticollis
- Excessive crying...
The osteopath does not replace the attending physician, the pediatrician, or any other specialist your child may need.
adults
Bad positions, repetition of movements at work, stress: these constraints accumulate and can cause various pains or more or less acute blockages.
The osteopath will be able to relieve the ailments due to your professional activity or your rhythm of life.
Preventive and curative management of occupational pathologies (TMS).
- Tendinitis
- Sciatica
- Low back pain
- Lumbago
- Neck pain
- Physical manifestations of stress
The pregnant woman
Osteopathy helps pregnant women to relieve the ailments of pregnancy, thus helping them to move better, sleep better and calmly approach childbirth and the arrival of the child.
- Osteopathy during pregnancy acts on several pains or disorders:
- Lower back pain
- Coccygeal pain
- Reflux, nausea
- Difficult digestion
- Anxiety, stress, fatigue
- Sleeping troubles
- Respiratory discomfort, tightness
- Circulatory disorders
- Preparing the pelvis for childbirth
Your osteopath will begin the consultation with an interview on your general condition and your history, then will handle you gently on the table or via a pregnancy ball.
Seniors
Osteopathy will be appropriate to relieve various pains that can bother you on a daily basis. Find your mobility without fear of new symptoms.
You can consult your osteopath for the following cases.
- Muscle aches
- Joint pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Improving disorders
- Headache/dizziness
- Sleeping troubles
Athletes suffer multiple shocks due to intense and sometimes excessive activity. The osteopath will relieve your ailments, even the oldest ones, and will help improve your sports performance.
The osteopath will act on the tissues surrounding the joint. This manipulation will release tension and limit inflammation.
Osteopathy contributes to your physical preparation during competitions (marathon, twenty kilometres) and prevents injuries (sprains, strains, tears). You can consult your osteopath in the following cases.
- Joint and/or muscle pain
- Tendinitis
- Sprains
- Muscle spasms
- Pubalgia
- Recent or old traumas: shocks, falls
In case of major injuries, a visit to the osteopath does not exempt you from a visit to the doctor.
nerve pain
Nerve pain (sciatica, cruralgia) is often due to the compression of a nerve: consulting the osteopath is recommended to free the painful area.
Nerve pain can take different forms. Your professional will thus endeavor to reposition the various elements, considerably relieving the pathology.
- Sciatica, herniated disc
- Cruralgia
- Cervicobrachial Neuralgia (CBN)
- Arnold's neuralgia
Digestive and pulmonary system
Osteopathy also makes it possible to improve digestive disorders and also pulmonary discomfort.
The digestive system is often defined as our second brain. By its central place, it is the first to be affected during an imbalance. Again, the manipulations of your osteopath will relieve you.
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease, hiatal hernia
- Constipation, diarrhea
- Bloating
- Swallowing disorder
- Asthma
Cranial system, ENT and Neurovegetative system
Migraine and recurrent ENT disorders can arise from various sources, of digestive origin, but also from a bone or muscle imbalance.
Osteopathy will therefore be appropriate. The work will consist in restoring the good motricity of the whole. The manipulations will thus concern the skull, the bones of the face, the cervical and the dorsal in order to relieve the pain.
- Headache
- Migraines
- Dizziness
- Tinnitus
- Chronic sinusitis
Osteopathic manipulations also act on your neurovegetative system (stress, sleep...).
Osteopathy therefore makes it possible to reduce stress, improve sleep and promote the function of the various structures. It also plays a role in concentration in both adults and children.
Gynecological and urinary disorders
Are you pregnant and feeling pain? Pregnancy brings about a number of imbalances and adjustments that cause pain and inconvenience.
The osteopath will take the time to question you and listen to you to find out the source of the symptoms. She will then intervene on the cause of the problem in order to gradually reduce the pain.
- Pregnancy follow-up
- Preparation for childbirth
- painful cycle
- Incontinence
- Osteo gyn