Osteopathy

Osteopathy is an incredibly effective form of treatment, focused on identifying the root cause of your injury, maximising the body’s function, restoring movement patterns, enabling the body to function at optimal capacity.

At Living Health Group, our experienced and trusted osteopaths take a holistic approach to your health, looking at the underlying cause of your injury or condition, and focusing on how to prevent this reoccurrence.

We educate you on what has caused this change in the body and create a road map for you to optimal health, enabling you to live your best life yet. Treatment involves tailoring a road map that both client and practitioner can work together with to create the most effective results, enabling you to achieve your health goals.

What do we treat at our Osteopathic clinic in Glen Waverley?

Living Health Group offers professional osteopathic consultations specialising in the treatment of:

• Lower back pain
• Neck pain
• Headaches
• Sciatica
• Sports injuries
• Rehabilitation
• Shoulder pain
• Repetitive strain injuries
• Jaw pain
• Ankle and knee pain

How Does Osteopathic Treatment Work?

Osteopathic treatment is generally very gentle, using a wide array of methods to treat the source of your injury. Hands on treatment includes soft tissue massage, joint mobilisation, stretching, myo-fascial release, dry needling, taping, trigger point therapy and restoring movement patterns through exercise prescription.

Using a range of safe and effective methods, our Glen Waverley osteopaths aim to reduce pain, increase your movement, restore function and work with you to enable you to achieve your health goals.

Who Do We See at Our Osteopathic Clinic?

What to Expect During Osteopathy Treatment?

During your 1st consultation with your Osteopath, your Osteopath will listen to what it is that is bothering you, your injury or pain, and run through your health history. Your osteopath will examine how well you are moving and perform some tests.

From here your Osteopath will explain what exactly is going on with your injury and what the process involves to restore function and movement. If warranted your Osteopath can refer you off for further investigation such as X-rays, ultrasounds or MRI’s.

Treatment is hands on and includes soft tissue massage, joint mobilisation, stretching, myo-fascial release, dry needling, taping, trigger point therapy and restoring movement patterns through exercise prescription.

At the end of your treatment your osteopath will give you a ‘roadmap to good health. This allows for clear understanding of what is going on in the body and what has been the cause. This will give you time frame of how long you expect recovery to be. We will also give you some take home exercises to assist recovery and also some lifestyle recommendations.