R.S.I., Tenosynovitis, Tendonitis, "Tennis" and "Golfers Elbow" and Similar Problems

This growing area of problems has actually always been an affliction for humans, but our modern lifestyles are applying extra demands on the uses of our forearms and upper backs, increasingly in both quantity and in different fashions and duration of motion. The design of our body has evolved slowly, but our lifestyle change is gathering pace. Osteopathic manipulation is ideally suited to consistently resolve these problems, osteopaths have been doing so over many decades as the names of these conditions have changed. The manipulative hand skills an osteopath can employ quickly and simply ease the pain, restriction and disability of this type of problem without the potential risk factors of more interventionist treatment, but with the same speed as these when these higher risk treatments are successful.

Osteopaths are most ideally suited profession in their knowledge to back up their treatments with ergonomic lifestyle and positioning advice for individuals, groups or companies.

Osteopathy has outperformed Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (the commonest treatment for this type of problem) and other conventional treatments in a 1994 trial (Journal.AM.Ost.Am, 1994; 94:647-63) for "repetitive strain injury", and has repeatedly drastically cut lost work hours when used in corporate situation where the range of musculo-skeletal/mechanical disorders needed to be treated.

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