This is one of a set of videos (the majority of which look at bone alignments, how certain muscle and other soft tensions cause certain issues to arise, how our behaviours and posture could give us pain, poor organ and gland function and more).

This specific video, however, gives an overview of Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Osteopathy and Bowen therapy and in essence their different approaches.

Each video is deliberately simplistic and aims to use simple language to help convey concepts and aid understanding at a basic and whole (holistic) body level.

We are all different in our approach but there is strength in having us all available to you to help keep you fit, healthy and functioning as well as possible.

No single therapy has all the answers and many of our clients see a number of different therapists according to their presenting issues. However, more is not better. Always tell a therapist what other inputs you have “in the mix”.

Any one of us may say, with very good reason, “please can you hold on x or y” or “sorry we would not be able to see you until you have finished your course of z because the two sets of input may clash/impact/cancel each other out”. Think here of making a cake where you keep being called to the door, the phone, the kids in the garden whilst other people keep popping into your kitchen to lob random ingredients into the mix

When we say 'muscle' we are using this as a collective term for tendons, ligaments and any other soft tissue fibres or fascia.

That knee issue could be your neck, or your shoulder… That neck issue could be your foot…
Your body in normal use is designed to bend and flex and twist and turn.
It is when that flexibility is compromised, for example by an acute injury or by longheld tensions caused by habitual postures or historic injury which may date back many decades, that we may get presentations in clinic of pain, misalignment and restricted range of movement which can impact nerves, blood, lymphatic and other fluid flow, restricted mobility and more.

These issues may have been layering up over a very long period: with each issue leading on to adaptation, which in turn leads to further adaptation with the passage of time.

None of our videos constitutes medical advice in any way.

Anyone making use of our videos does so entirely at their own risk as no advice is being given herein.

When we see clients in clinic we provide them with customised advice based on actually having assessed them and that advice given is specific to them at that time.

We work entirely within the bounds of our training and qualifications. That training is an ongoing process with formal training courses, conferences, handson dissection, research and more and, whilst it may overlap with other therapies it makes no claim to be any of those other therapies.