If you have flu-like symptoms and are concerned that you may have swine flu the advice is to stay at home and contact your GP, who will be able to assess you. Swine flu has diminished in the UK.   However, it remains important that you know how to protect yourself, your family and others.  For [...]

Currently, access to osteopathy on the NHS is limited. Primary Care Trusts have been slow to implement the recommendations by NICE (The National Institute for Clinical Excellence) that osteopathic care be considered as one treatment option for low back pain and as such the British Osteopathic Association has referred to availability of Osteopathy on the NHS in England as a post code lottery.

To find out if NHS treatment is available in your area speak to your GP.

How’s your health? The NHS has just made it a little bit easier to find out.   Following on from the great success of BabyLife and TeenLife Check the NHS has recently launched MidLifeCheck.   It’s a free confidential and easy to use online service for anyone over 40 that helps you get answers to important health [...]

Osteopath Direct has opened at the One to One Health Centre and gym on High March in Daventry led by registered Osteopath Luke Dillon.

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.