Osteopathy
What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a holistic healthcare approach that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of a wide range of health issues through the treatment and strengthening of the musculoskeletal system.
By emphasising the interrelationship between the body's structure and function, osteopaths aim to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself.
How Can Osteopathy Help?
Osteopathy involves various hands-on techniques, including stretching, massaging, and mobilising joints, to improve overall health and well-being.
Osteopathy is beneficial for treating conditions such as back pain, headaches, chronic pain, and postural strains, making it a valuable addition to your health regime.
Osteopathy for Golf
Golf is a game to be played for your whole life. Whether you’re young and wanting to get the most out of your body, or older and just wanting to stay fit enough to keep playing for years to come, Osteopathy can help you achieve your golfing goals.
Improved flexibility & movement
Injury prevention & management
Better golf posture & alignment
Optimising performance
Decreased fatigue on the course
Want to know a little more?
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At Links Health & Performance, we understand that every patient is unique, and we take the time to listen to your concerns, answer your questions, and develop personalised care plans tailored to your needs. Our friendly and welcoming osteopaths are here to make your visit as comfortable and stress-free as possible.
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Our Osteopaths are highly trained and skilled with a variety of different techniques to help get you back to feeling your best.
Deep soft tissue massage
Joint mobilisation
Dry needling
Sports performance & rehabilitation taping
Along with many others techniques osteopaths may use
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Dr. Kristopher Sanford, our resident Golfing Osteopath, is a fully qualified ASCA Strength & Conditioning Coach with a focus on creating the best exercise plans for golfers of all skill levels to achieve their goals.
Kristopher believes that the best exercise rehabilitation plan is one that is both enjoyable and sustainable. A plan is only as good as your ability to do it. -
Osteopathy can help with upper back pain, neck pain, lower back pain, sciatica, disc injuries, headaches, muscle and joint strains, just to name a few.
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As golfers, we all know how tough golf can be on your body. Whether it be chronic lower back pain and tightness affecting your swing; an old leg injury or arthritis stopping you walking the course; or a shoulder injury keeping you from creating any power, Osteopathy can help get you back to your best golf.
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Yes. Osteopathy is covered under 'extras' with most private health coverages in Australia. To check your own individual coverage and how much your private health will rebate, check your account online with your insurer.
FAQs
What injuries can Osteopathy help with?
Osteopathy can help with a variety of injuries, with an emphasis on treating both the symptoms, and the root cause.
Neck, back, and shoulder pain
Muscle strains and spasms
Nerve entrapments such as carpal tunnel, sciatica, and trigeminal neuralgia
Headaches, migraine, and jaw pain
Arthritis and other joint conditions
Sporting injuries
What is the difference between Osteo vs Physio vs Chiro?
Osteopathy, physiotherapy, and chiropractic share many similiarities with all being hands on, allied health options to help your body heal and function at it’s best.
Osteopathy is unique as it takes an approach of looking at the whole body as a system and applies treatment to not just help the painful tissue, but also treat the root cause and get the body functioning as optimally as possible. Osteopathy believes that the bodies structure and function are inter-related, and if you can get the body functioning well, it can heal itself.
Can Osteopathy help with ongoing care?
Osteopathy is fantastic for helping you with the management of ongoing, environmental, or chronic conditions. It is an unfortunate reality, that not all injuries will heal perfectly or quickly. At LinksHP, we believe that the more you understand your own injury, the more you can take control of the management.
Talk with one of our Osteopaths today about how long term management can help you take back control of your life.
What does it mean by “treating the root cause?”
Treating the root cause can be best seen as a method of looking deeper and asking “why” something is happening in the body, not just “what”.
Ostepaths will often focus on the ‘why’, to try to get the the bottom, or ‘root cause’ of the issue. This helps us better understand the injury or issue, create a better plan for it’s treatment, and help stop it from reoccurring if possible.
What qualifications does an Osteopath have?
Osteopathy is a 5 year double degree, or degree and Master’s (depending on the university).
Osteopaths are also required to undertake at least 25hrs of professional training each year to stay up to date with the latest research and best clinical practices.
Our Osteopath Dr. Kristopher Sanford studied at RMIT university in Melbourne for 5 years, before moving up to sunny Sydney, where he undertook further study in strength and conditioning with a focus on golf.
How does treatment change for patients of different ages?
Treatment looks different for people of all different ages, sizes, and conditions. Osteopathy utilises a wide variety of treatment options and practitioners will change what techniques they use to best suit the person and the injury.
Osteopathy can modulate it’s treatment intensity from very direct, to gentle when necessary.
Your Osteopath will always ask what style suits you best, and keep an open course of dialogue to explain what treatment choices you have.