Devonshire Osteopaths want osteopathy to be available to a wider public. From October 2009 we now offer a weekly clinic at the Sundial Centre (11 Shipton Street, London, E2 7RU; tel: 020 7021 4137; http://www.peabody.org.uk/living/community-centres/sundial-centre.aspx). The Sundial Centre is a project funded jointly by Peabody, London Catalyst and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and provides an integrated mix of health, day care, social and ... Read More »
Information suggests 30% of patients coming to osteopaths have neck symptoms. Devonshire Osteopaths will be helping in a research project beginning in February 2010 looking at the treatment of neck symptoms in osteopathic practice. The National Council for Osteopathic Research (NCOR), in collaboration with practising osteopaths, is launching a project to examine this area and we shall be providing anonymised information from our practice Read More »
Since January 2009 Devonshire Osteopaths has provided a free weekly osteopathic clinic at Toynbee Hall (28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS; tel: 020 7247 6943: http:www.toynbeehall.org.uk). Toynbee Hall is a well-known local community centre established in the nineteenth century and has practical innovative programmes to meet the needs of local people in E1 and the surrounding area. Our clinic supports the work of the Link Age Plus project at... Read More »
Devonshire Osteopaths supported BackCare Awareness Week (Oct 11-18th), organized by BackCare, the national charity for healthy backs (www.backcare.org.uk/). We set up stalls in Leadenhall Market, EC3 and Devonshire Square, EC2, to provide information and raise awareness about healthy backs. Read More »
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)(1) has published guidelines(2) to improve the early management of persistent non-specific low back pain. This covers people who have been in pain longer than six weeks, but less than one year, where the pain may be linked to structures in the back such as joints, muscles and ligaments and not to other specific pathologies.
The focus is on helping people with persistent non-specifi... Read More »
