And am still waiting on your image and copy for the site this post is about. Do you have that?

I’m sure you’ll understand that I can’t name names (patient confidentiality), and there is nothing to shame (well he did end at the best lol).

But if you fancy doing a setting up an internet guessing game maybe something like an internet “Where’s Wally” I might forgot to say no!

osteopaths treat the bones, muscles, ligaments, and joints. We can therefore treat an part of the body directly. We are also looking how these different areas connect together. this helps us find predisposing and maintaining factors i.e. trying to find the real cause of your problem and make sure it doesn’t come back. What I mean by this is you may have pain in your knee that is caused by twisting and torsion in your calf as a result of your flat foot. treating the knee may make your knee pian go away, but if the foot problem isn’t addressed your knee pain will keep coming back. (still with me?)

A chiropractor would probably look at your knee, X-ray your back and tell you that your knee pain is caused by a joint in your back out of place. This is because Chiropractors generally look at spinal joints and the way this would affect the nervous sytem, and nothing else. (still there?)

A physio (now this is a hard one). The best way I can show you the difference is to discribe a patient I used to treat and let you work it out for yourself. I used to treat a footballer who suffered with recurrent groin and hamsting stains. The club physio kept getting him pain free, and back to training. within a couple of “proper” matches he’d be out again with the same problem as before.

This had happened 3 times in one season. (nearly the whole season wasted). The player was frustrated. when I saw him for the first time I looked at his whole body and found most of his problems were due to overtight muscles in his hip/buttock area and his low back.

I treated those and I haven’t heard of any problems since (on TV, radio or press. Yes he is that well known)

This is a very general reply, and the best way to find out for yourself is to try the 3 therapies. Most offer a free assessment, just make sure they don’t sign you up for life!