Reading Osteopaths

By providing outstanding Osteopathic care in our modern friendly surroundings, we’ve been making a positive impact to the lives of the residents of Reading since 2005. We have now moved to our purpose built centre at 17 Church Road in Caversham, Reading. Our team of Reading osteopaths are here to help you!

We are dedicated to educating our patients about Osteopathy and the long term benefits that Osteopathic care can make to you and your family, whatever your age, whatever your condition. Take care of your body and improve your quality of life by consulting your Reading Osteopath.

Find out more about our Osteopathy team here.

Our Intention:

We are a passionate, dynamic, spinal health team.
Our desire is to inspire a vibrant tribe of chiropractic & osteopathic advocates to realise and enjoy the vitality of great health, to reach their potential and feel truly alive!

We care for whole families, for their body and soul, as they climb to the freedom of true health.

Our aim has always been to improve the health of as many people as possible in our local communities of Caversham, Reading and beyond. Our Reading Osteopaths and spinal health team are eager to help you. If you are currently suffering the misery of back pain, neck pain or headaches. Or perhaps you suffer from migraine or a whiplash injury? Some people believe nothing can be done for them, but when they arrive at our centre, they quickly feel that they are in exactly the right place.

Osteopathy

Osteopathy is a manual therapy which aim is to treat the cause instead of concealing the symptoms. To achieve this, osteopaths can use many types of techniques. Our Reflex Osteopaths and chiropractors work in a manner that allows there to be overlap between the practitioners and ensures that you get the best outcomes for your presenting condition. If you are looking for high quality osteopathy in Reading please contact us now to see if we can help.

All UK Osteopaths must be registered with the General Osteopathic Council.

Osteopathic techniques are divided into three main categories:

Structural Osteopathy Techniques

Functional Techniques: functional technique involves evaluating a restricted segment of the body for mobility, assessing the direction it is restricted in, and finding the pathway of ease where resistance does not occur.
Strain/Counterstrain: it’s similar to functional technique in that it involves placing a dysfunctional or painful joint in a position of greatest comfort or ease. The difference is it uses common tender points associated with joint dysfunctions.
Osteoarticular Adjustments: osteoarticular adjustment is a technique used to restore mobility (not just position) and tissue quality within a restricted vertebral or peripheral joint. Sometimes a popping noise can be heard. The noise is caused by pressure being released in the joint as it begins to moves again.
Myofascial Release: the term, “myofascial”, means muscle and fascia combined. Fascia is a continuous sheet of connective tissue from our head to our toes. Myofascial release treats the fascial system by normalizing tensions within the fascial planes, thereby improving all tissue mobility and vascularization.
Gentle Joint Mobilisation: all joints have a physiological range of motion but stiff joints can become blocked in some movements and this can cause compensations and pain. Joint mobilisation gently guides it in all the directions it was designed to move in.
Muscle Energy Technique: this is a direct technique guiding the mechanical dysfunction along the path of correction using active patient resistance.

Structural Osteopath in Reading

Cranial Osteopathy Techniques

The brain is held in place by ligaments that secure it inside surface of the skull. A cranial osteopath will influence the ligaments using small, gentle cranial holds at special points on the skull. Cranial osteopathy is well known for its usefulness on babies after childbirth but it can also be used on any patient to relieve tension and stress in the head and elsewhere in the body. For more information contact our Reading Osteopaths about a Reading cranial osteopath.

Visceral Osteopathy Techniques

All viscera should function properly without any restrictions or adhesions to other structures. Restrictions and adhesions can be caused by infections, inflammatory conditions and surgeries. It is possible with osteopathic manipulation to bring about an improvement in function by restoring a proper motion. Contact us if looking for a visceral osteopath in Reading.

We’re Happy To Help

Our fantastic team of Reading Osteopaths are dedicated to educating our patients about Osteopathy and Chiropractic and the long term benefit that care can make to you and your family, whatever your age and whatever your condition. If you would like to find out whether osteopathic care would benefit you then please phone our Berkshire clinic. If one of our Reading Osteopaths is not free to speak to you, we’ll take your details and phone you back as soon as possible.