How Effective is Osteopathic Treatment?

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Osteopathy is well known as an effective treatment method for a range of pains, injuries and symptoms. In fact it was one of the earliest complimentary therapies to be legally acknowledged by the government (through the Osteopathic Act in 1993). The British Medical Association (BMA) has also officially recognised the effectiveness of osteopathic treatment. This acts to show that osteopathy is a legitimate form of treatment for your pain or symptoms which can be extremely effective.

How Long Until You Feel Better After Osteopathic Treatment

The effectiveness of your personal osteopathic treatment will depend on your specific problem (pain, injury or symptom etc.) and your state of health. Osteopathic treatment is highly tailored for your injury and your body so you will have a unique experience of how quickly (and how effectively) you respond to each of your osteopathy visits.

If you are really lucky you will walk away from an osteopathic clinic pain free. However, this is rare and very much depends on the problem that you walked into the osteopathic clinic with! The earlier you visit an osteopath for treatment, the more likely it is that they will be able to treat you and therefore the more likely it is that you will be pain free in a shorter length of time.

At the end of the day, your personal anatomy (body structure) and physiology (body function) will dictate how well you respond to osteopathic treatment as well as the type of problem that you have. Obviously more serious problems will require more treatment to cure, however small problems that you have had for a long time could equally take a long time to respond. This is because, by delaying treatment, you will have allowed your soft tissue to build up around the injury (or misalignment etc.). This build up of (wrongly placed) soft tissue will require a longer treatment regime so that your osteopath can move the built up soft tissue out of the way and restructure it in order to re-balance your body as well as treating your injury (or misalignment etc.).

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