PAIN-RELIEF-OSTEOPATH-EXERCISE

• back or joint pain for a while,
• have recently had a baby
• or are about to take up or change an exercise regime.

• Be in a position to note how your body will respond to exercise.
• Working with areas requiring stretching or strengthening.
• Facilitating exercise providing your body least strain and most gain.

RECONDITION-REHABILITATION

• Being able to develop and provide a programme for neuromuscular rehabilitation
• Rehabilitating the movement control after joint and muscle injuries
• Providing neuromuscular rehabilitation post-surgery (hip, shoulder, lower back and more)
• Work with cognitions and behaviour in managing conditions associated with emotional stress (painful jaw, chronic neck and shoulder pain, suboccipital pain, tension headaches and lower back pain)
• Treatment of patients with central nervous system damage (stroke, MS, head injuries)
• Develop & provide specific exercise and functional activities to support movement rehabilitation

• Preventative education is provided further too his detailed understanding, using rehabilitation retraining.
• By using appropriate training modalities to encourage/challenge the posture, nervous system and musculoskeletal system he can facilitate your body to become well balanced for daily functional movement and more.
• Rehabilitation sessions are tailor made to your requirements, enabling full recovery of movement, power & control. David provides optimal clinical management integrating your motor & sensory function.

Having completed, a specialised pilate’s teacher training course.

• The knee is the largest joint in the body, and one of the most easily injured.

• Not every pain felt in the shoulder region is actually caused by a problem in the shoulder joint.

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

• Back pain

• Shoulder pain

• Constant muscle spasms

• Tendonitis (inflamed tendons)

• Calf injury

• Tendon damage

a dull ache, throbbing, numbness, tingling, swelling, weakness, cramps and tightness in the affected area.

elbow, wrist, biceps, shoulder (including rotator cuff attachments), leg, knee (patellar), ankle, hip, and Achilles’.

Core stability 

• Core stability-exercises for multifidus and transverse abdominus. N.B. Abdominal Breathing very important.
• After an episode of low back pain, up to 80% of patients suffer further episodes of pain within the following year.
• Research indicates this is partly due to the muscles multifidus and transverse abdominus being inhibited (shutdown) as a reflex response to the original injury. 
• These muscles combine to support and stabilise the lower spine, and having being inhibited by the original injury, they often do not switch back on easily.   

• Multifidus

  is a series of small muscles being part of the deepest layer of muscles running the length of your spine.

• Transverse Abdominus

  is the deepest layer of the corset of muscles that pass around your abdomen attaching to your spine, lower ribs and pelvis. These 'inner unit' muscles contract fractions of a second prior to contraction of other muscles used in normal daily activity, thus providing a stable muscular 'core'. 

• Before working these muscles it is necessary to find your position of neutral spine.
• Lie on your back with your knees bent. Slowly tilt your pelvis so that the upper part moves toward the floor, then tilt your pelvis in the opposite direction with the upper part moving toward the celling.
• This should be a short range of movement, and should not cause discomfort. Select the most comfortable point between the two extremes of movement, this is the neutral position.

• To make active transverses abdominus gently draw your navel toward your lower spine and hold the contraction, continue abdominal breathing while holding the neutral spine position and contracting transverses abdominus. Hold for up to 10 breadth cycles, slowly exhaling whilst holding each contraction.
• To remind you of the simple illustration I give in teaching these exercises, using an imaginary glass on the navel; exercises for transverses abdominus spills the glass on your thighs and exercises for multifidus spills the glass on your chest.
• These exercises are very precise targeting the particular muscles, that David has helped you to identify. The use of larger muscles in the area, is easily done, but not helpful.