This week is National Falls Awareness week run by Age UK, and they have launched a new campaign – Get Up and Go! 2010 – to remind us all about the importance of keeping fit and active as we get older.
No matter what your age, weight, health problems or abilities, you should strive and do some form of regular physical activity. Here’s our guide to keeping healthy.
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games will soon be here and for the first time in Olympic history, osteopathy is to form part of the host medical services provision. Osteopaths will work alongside sports medicine doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, podiatrists, and sports massage practitioners treating and providing support to elite athletes.
Osteopath Direct is pleased to announce that we are now registered with a number of private medical insurance companies for the provision of osteopathy. The medical insurance schemes are: Simply Health (formerly trading as HSA, BCWA, LHF, HealthSure and Totally Active), Pru Health, WPA, Groupama and Aviva.
Osteopath Direct has opened at the One to One Health Centre and gym on High March in Daventry led by registered Osteopath Luke Dillon.
A new Osteopathic clinic has opened in South East London to provide care to patients in Elephant & Castle, Kennington and the surrounding areas.
NICE – the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) – has published guidelines to improve the early management of persistent non-specific low back pain and one option is a course of manual therapy, including spinal manipulation of up to 9 sessions over up to 12 weeks.
