At The Lister Practice osteopathic treatment offers safe effective relief from injuries aches and pains .
Osteopathy utilises a patient focused, physical approach to restoring, maintaining and promoting well-being.
Primarily treatment takes the form of manual therapy involving massage, mobilization of soft-tissues and joints, and spinal manipulation for the treatment of musculo-skeletal and related structural problems.
Patients come to see us for help with a wide variety of symptoms involving pain and/or restricted mobility, including, but not limited to:
• Generalised aches and pains
• Joint pains including hip and knee pain
• Neck pain and stiffness
• Headache arising from the neck
• General acute and chronic backache
• Arthritic pain
• Frozen shoulder/shoulder and elbow pain/tennis elbow & golfer's elbow (which we look at in relation to associated musculoskeletal conditions in the back and neck and posture/ergonomics in the workplace etc.
• Postural problems
• Sciatica
• Tight and sore muscles
• Stiff sore back
• Fibromyalgia
• Tension in the neck and shoulders/Inability to relax
• Rheumatic pain
• Minor Sports injuries and tensions
• Dance injuries
(Christine Lister is a qualified teacher of classical ballet and
a registered practitioner with DANCE UK)
• Scoliosis
• Pain and stiffness after a fall
• Muscular aches and pains following joint replacement surgery
• Aches and pains affecting the elbow,wrist & hand.
• Aches and pains in the Foot and Ankle.
Optimising your health
Osteopathy is not just about getting rid of uncomfortable symptoms. Our focus is on
optimising health - looking for the opportunities in each patient's life to promote better health and well-being.
At The Lister Practicewe can help you:
• TO improve your postural awareness
• TO improve how you breath
• HELP you with relaxation techniques
• HELP you maintain better back health by carefully teaching you gentle
back exercises and checking you are doing them correctly.
• HELP guide you toward the best type of exercise for you.
• HELP you toimprove the ergonomics of your work-space, lap-top and computer
set-up.
• HELP you to learn how to manoeuvre more safely and develop self-help strategies.