Last year when starting my yoga practice, I decided to make sure that my back was good and healthy. I had abused it for years drinking, dancing, and LOTS of slouching. I decied to see a chiropractor and an osteopath. Yes there is a difference. A chiropractor works your spine while an osteopath works the muscles that hold your spine together. Ok that’s probably an over simplification.
Well because of where my yoga teacher is based, The Natural Health Service in Glasgow, I was able to contact Asif and his crew of osteopaths. Real nice people, all willing to help and offer advice. So when I saw their website I had to offer my services.
Their old site was straight out of the 90s. – the 1890s!! Seriously my 17 year old neice, who has only skills with Facebook, could have done better. Asif was also in agreement that it needed updated. And so we now have the all new Glasgow Oseopaths website – http://www.glasgow-osteopaths.co.uk.
The site is a nicer, cleaner version of the old site with nearly 100% the same content, also all the URLs are the same, so it just shows you its worth spending 10minutes on how your website looks. You can have the best content on the world, but if someone comes to your site, and thinks it looks cheap and nasty, then you look cheap and nasty. Would you trust a cheap and nasty looking website?
Again this site will not win awards – am no designer – but I grabbed a couple of ideas from places and brought them together. I think it’s nice.
(And what is excellent is that I found a gallery option in WordPress while creating this post. It just gets better – WordPress that is.)
So what’s the difference between them and a physiotherapist then?
Am not sure. Price?
here’s an over simplified differentiation of the differences (I hope)
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!
Great answer, Daniel. Seems you work with big names. Go on…name and shame here…you know you want to!
Hi Colin
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!
Why do I always find mistakes in my comments just after I’ve submitted it, and how do you change them? I’ve read this one 5 times and keep finding things wrong and this is a short one.
Hehehe. Privately email the changes to me and I can do them. You still have my email address?
And am still waiting on your image and copy for the site this post is about. Do you have that?
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