Pain—It’s the warning that something isn’t right.

Whether your pain is the result of an injury, lifting, gardening, playing sport, poor posture or an unknown cause, you need to decide how you want to deal with your pain? Do you want to mask it or resolve it? If you want to get rid of your pain and start feeling better, you need to try the Osteo Doctors at OHG. If Physio or Chiro have not worked for you, then you need to give Osteo a try. Many “impossible” cases respond to Osteo. Our treatment differs from Physio & Chiro because it combines massage and manipulation to help [...]

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Osteo, You’re Making The Right Choice

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Osteo- It’s the difference between Physio & Chiro: The Facts

Our treatment differs from others practitioners because it combines massage and manipulation to help you recover from pain and injury.

We don’t just manipulate your joints, we don’t just massage your muscles, we don’t just give you exercises and we don’t just apply an ultrasound to your back.

We work on your muscles, ligaments, tendons AND your joints. By combining massage, muscle stretching & joint mobilization you will get fast relief from your pain.

This means that Osteo is a more complete treatment option. [click to continue…]

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Pain Relief in Bayside…have you tried Dry needling?

Pain Relief and dry needling, doesn’t make sense does it? Needles and pain makes sense.  But needles and pain relief doesn’t.  Or does it? Well the answer is yes, it does make sense.  Dry needling is a great painless therapy that is related to it’s older cousin Acupuncture. We all know about Acupuncture which dates back to 3500 years ago. But Dry Needling originated back in the late 70′s. They both use very fine needles inserted into the body. That’s where the similarity ends though. Acupuncture is based on a completely different philosophy and diagnostic concept to that of Dry [...]

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Headache Relief…

Are you wondering why you suffer from frequent HEADACHES? Around 1 in 6 people do and the answer could be inside your mouth! Yes, that’s right. The answer could be related to what’s going on with your muscles, joints & ligaments around the jaw and face. Nearly all of us will suffer from headaches at least once during our lifetimes. Headaches affect  your work, energy levels, concentration and how you feel. It’s worth noting though, that most headaches are due to non-life-threatening causes and can be relieved through appropriate treatment. There are many different causes of headaches; put simply- anything [...]

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Back Pain Relief & Yoga

A lot of patients ask me about Yoga. The patients that ask me are the ones that have tried everything. They’ve done the Personal Trainer, the Pilates, the cortisone injection and even had back surgery. They’re desperate to try something to help them and they’re in pain. So when they ask, can Yoga help me, the first thing I say is …”When can you start?” Yoga is fantastic for lower back pain. It’s great for improving flexibility, strength and fitness. That’s right, fitness. You wouldn’t normally think Yoga and then fitness. But you’d be wrong. You can get very fit [...]

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Osteo…It’s never too late.

Mike Doyle is hoping to change his job after 17 years of sweeping the streets of Ramsbottom. Pictures: Julian Brown A street cleaner has fulfilled his dream of becoming a medic – after commuting to London for lectures every weekend for five years. Mike Doyle has spent 17 years clearing pavements in Bury having left school with no qualifications. The determined dad-of-one decided to transform his life after an osteopath cured a boyhood back injury. But as no local college taught the course, Mike endured 400-mile round trips to attend a specialist school for the weekend lectures. He paid for the [...]

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Back Pain after Gardening? You need to warm up.

Do you suffer from a painful back after gardening? This is the typical story, I don’t know what happened, I just got this pain in my back. When did it start? Oh, Monday actually. I didn’t do anything. What did you do on the weekend? Oh, I actually did some gardening. I was digging a trench. How long were you doing that for? About 2 hours on Saturday & Sunday. There’s your answer. You see gardening is the silent back pain cause. Especially common the day after the weekend. The thing is, gardening can cause back pain because it’s so [...]

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Neck Pain Relief? It could be as easy as changing your pillow.

Do you suffer from neck pain? Do you wake up in the morning feeling like you have a knot of muscles in your shoulders? Do you wake up with neck stiffness & headaches that go away after you’ve had a hot shower and your breakfast? If you do, your pain could be caused by your pillow. We ask every patient that complains of neck pain about their pillow. How old is your pillow? How many pillows do you sleep on? What size is your pillow? What’s your pillow made out of? These are important facts to know when assessing a [...]

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Chronic Back Pain, Goldilocks & the 3 Bears.

Do you suffer from chronic back pain? Your answer might be to get a new bed. Just as the famous Goldilocks found out, beds can be too hard, too soft or just right. Is your bed just right? How are you going to know if you have bought the right bed? Should I buy an expensive bed? How long should a bed last? Is my bed causing my back pain? On average we spend 8 hours in bed. Can you imagine what your feet would feel like after wearing old, unsupportive and uncomfortable shoes for 8 hours? Probably a bit [...]

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Sports Injuries

When Repeat Injuries Can’t Dim an Athlete’s Passion Kallista/Getty Images By GINA KOLATA Published: August 16, 2010 When Dr. Michael Joyner, an exercise researcher at the Mayo Clinic, heard I’d gotten a second stress fracture, high on my fibula, less than two years after recovering from my first one, in a metatarsal bone in my foot, he sent me some advice by e-mail. “I would urge you to take a year off of running,” he wrote. “Stop trying to rope-a-dope this. Cycle and do the elliptical and take some swimming lessons.” He added, “I did — took 10 years off [...]

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