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Osteopathy is for everyone!

The reason that I became interested in ‘Strain and Counterstrain’ is quite simple. I picked up a chronic low back injury playing rugby whilst I was at University and consulted Doctors, Orthopaedic Specialists and Physiotherapists, all to no avail.

As a Doctor of Medicine I had learnt that rest, followed by physiotherapy, together with analgesics, was the best treatment. Osteopathy was considered a form of complementary therapy and yet it succeeded in treating my problem where other therapies had failed.

This compelled me to try to find other ways to treat musculoskeletal injuries more quickly and efficiently. I found that osteopathic methods were far removed from anything else that I had learned, and so I trained to become a fully qualified medical osteopath at the London College of Osteopathic Medicine. Having done this course I found that even though it produced great results in a far shorter time, it was still only effective in about seventy five per cent of the conditions presented.

I was then lucky enough to meet and subsequently to have been taught the technique of ‘Strain and Counterstrain’ by a great Medical Osteopath, Dr Douglas Longden. He adapted the techniques of Dr Larry Jones’ Strain – Counterstrain to suit himself, and passed that knowledge on to me. I can truly say that it has changed my approach to musculo-skeletal medicine and my understanding of injuries, whether they are picked up in everyday life, or on the sports fields of the world.