Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg is located in the heart of Heidelberg.
Our osteopaths genuinely care about your health & have over 40 years of combined osteopathic experience.
Call 03 9499 9456 for an appointment or simply book online.
Our osteopaths genuinely care about your health & have over 40 years of combined osteopathic experience.
Call 03 9499 9456 for an appointment or simply book online.
Click here to find out more about what common conditions our osteopaths at Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg treat!
Osteopaths in the heart of Heidelberg.
Why choose Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg?
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Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg: Supporting Your Health!
Where we are in Heidelberg:
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113 Cape Street Heidelberg
Enhance Osteopathy is in the centre of Heidelberg, just one block behind Burgundy St, on the corner of Cape and Cartmell Streets.
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Our osteopaths look after patients from neighbouring suburbs too. If you live near any of the following suburbs we may just be the osteopaths for you: Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Rosanna, Templestowe, Preston, Viewbank, Thornbury, Northcote, Fairfield and further afield from the rest of Melbourne.
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What is Osteopathy?
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Osteopathy was developed in America in the 1870's by Dr Andrew Taylor Still and it is now widely recognised with osteopaths working in many countries throughout the world.
Osteopathy is a manual medicine & our osteopathic practitioners at Enhance Osteopathy in Heidelberg use hands-on techniques to try to help you heal.
Osteopaths study at university for five years in courses such as anatomy, physiology, pathology and other biomedical sciences.
Overall osteopathy is based on the idea that if the body's tissues are in the right anatomical position they will be better able to heal themselves. It is a biomechanical model of health care.
An osteopath looks at the whole body. All the strains & stresses you have experienced over a life time may contribute to your pain today. If you are not moving well and you are close to Heidelberg in the northern suburbs of Melbourne you may need an osteopath help to get better.
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What can I see an osteopath for?
Being an osteopath means seeing people for a very wide range of conditions. Primarily people seek out an osteopath when they want a musculoskeletal injury or dysfunction worked out, but your average osteopath can help with much more than just a sore back or sporting injuries. An normal osteopathic treatment will encompass much more than looking at just your muscles & joints.
Yes an osteopath is highly skilled in treating injuries, especially headaches, neck pain, back pain, including sciatica, and sports injuries, however we also use an osteopathic treatment to give an osteo's perspective on things like help with breathing, functional movement and long term health problems.
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As an osteopath you learn to work on all tissues in the body, not just muscles and joints. We have techniques for your:
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Our osteopathic clinic is also particularly well known for cranial osteopathy. We have two very experienced cranial osteopaths for treatment of all your head related injuries.
Being an osteopath means caring for the whole person and this includes taking emotions into account too. This is why you will find the osteopaths at Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg very considerate and compassionate at all times during your treatment.
If, after reading our "what do osteopaths treat" pages (which detail common conditions that osteopaths treat) you still have questions, feel free to call and ask one of our osteopaths to have a chat. I'm sure we'll be able to figure out if osteopathy can help you.
Paediatric Osteopaths:
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Yes, our osteopaths treat babies! At Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg we also love treating kids. Many of our patients use osteo for their kids. As children are not just little adults you really needs an osteopath who has trained in paediactric osteopathy.
A registered osteopath can treat children of any age, from newborn babies through to older children, however it is best to go with an osteopath who has done post graduate courses in paediatric osteopathy. As you can imagine the treatment process for babies is very different to adults so if you have any questions about the treatment and care of your little one you can arrange a chat with an osteopath at our Heidelberg clinic who will be happy to answer all your queries.
You can read more about paediatric osteopathy for children and babies here.
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What will my first osteopathic treatment involve?
When you come for your first osteopathic treatment at Enhance Osteopathy's Heidelberg clinic your osteopath will take a very thorough health history. Because osteopaths look at the whole body we want to know your full medical history. This will include many details you may not have thought to be relevant to an osteo consult! For example, your osteopath will want details of all your surgical, medical and injury history...over a lifetime. Your osteopath will also ask about any medications or natural supplements you take.
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Your osteopath will also ask very detailed questions about your pain. For example if you have had a sports injury your osteopath will want to know how it happened, when it happened, if you have ever had this type of pain before, how often it has occurred and how bad the pain is out of ten.
Your osteopath will also ask about the quality of your pain and this is something many people have never thought about before seeing an osteo.
So what do we mean by quality of pain? Your osteopath will ask if it is:
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This will help the osteopath determine what particular tissue in your body is causing your pain. The more details we can get the better our list of potential diagnoses will be.
Your osteopath will then ask a series of screening questions about your general health. These cover all the systems of the body, such as your gastrointestinal and nervous systems. You may be amazed to discover how much these systems can refer to other areas of the body or impact the health of your musculoskeletal system in general. These questions are also designed to keep your osteopathic treatment as safe as possible and alert your osteopath to any problems that may require referral to a GP or medical specialist.
Finally your osteopath will take you through a series of tests to narrow down the diagnosis. This may involve
- orthopaedic movement based tests
- neurological testing
- respiratory exams etc. and
- range of movement or strength testing.
Osteopaths use hands on techniques to treat their patients. This may include massage of soft tissues, resisted stretches, mobilisation of joints, work on the connective tissues and ligaments or visceral (organ) techniques or cranial osteopathy. If at any time you have questions during the treatment our osteopaths at Enhance Osteopathy Heidelberg will be happy to explain the process.
So there it is in a nutshell! If you would like to see one of our Heidelberg osteos simply click online bookings and get your journey to better health started today!
Our Osteopaths at 113 Cape St, Heidelberg: Click to find out more about our experienced and dedicated osteopaths.
