Osteopaths understand that everything in the body is connected. This even goes beyond muscles, joints, and soft tissues, to encompass your mental health, diet and more. Sometimes what seems like a simple case is actually a lot more interconnected with…
The IT band is a band of tissue that runs down the side of the thigh. Some people will treat it like a muscle, but it is more like a tendon. As such, it can’t contract itself, but its tension…
Stoma- means body and gnath- means jaw, so the stomatognathic system is simply the relationship between the jaw and rest of the body. The relationship is surprisingly deep and might answer some of your questions about lingering jaw pain headaches…
What Is Lower Cross Syndrome? Lower Cross Syndrome is a muscular imbalance around the thighs, pelvis, and lower back. It mirrors the pattern of Upper Cross Syndrome, which may develop in conjunction with it. In Lower Cross Syndrome, some muscles…
Upper Cross Syndrome describes a common muscular imbalance that develops around the shoulders and neck. Much like Lower Cross Syndrome in the pelvis and lower back, it forms a cross-shaped pattern of tight and weak muscles. The result is a…
When people hear the word “arthritis,” they often think of the wear-and-tear type that develops later in life. But rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is different. It is an autoimmune condition, which means the body’s own immune system attacks its joints, leading…
We've all heard of IBS, but what is it really? It can't be diagnosed by imaging, blood tests, or other investigations, although the tests do help to rule out other potential diagnoses. Symptoms include two extremes in quick succession. Constipation…
The knee cap (patella) is an unusual feat of physics. It's a bone sitting suspended within a tendon, sliding over the main knee joint. Its presence makes the quadriceps muscles hugely more efficient, as long as it moves well itself…
"Referred pain" is when the body doesn't feel pain exactly where it should. One well known example of this is when someone has a heart attack and has no chest pain, only arm or jaw pain. This can happen with…
The official names for high and low arches are pes cavus and pes planus respectively. The image below shows the basic impact of these changes on where the foot contacts the ground. It also shows the impact on the foot…