<![CDATA[City Osteopaths Wellington | Osteopath Wellington | Chiropractor Wellington | Homoeopath Wellington | Acupuncture Wellington | Natural Medicine Wellington | Alexander Technique Wellington | Wellington Osteopaths | Osteopaths Wellington | Osteopathic Clini - Blog]]>Sat, 22 Dec 2018 20:26:55 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Golfing injury or want to improve your golfing performance? City Osteopaths can help.]]>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:54:18 GMThttp://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/blog/golfing-injury-or-want-to-improve-your-golfing-performance-city-osteopaths-can-helpAthletic performance in golf seems to get little consideration outside of the professional game. You wouldn’t play rugby or cricket without training to improve athletic performance, so why do people do so with golf? All too often the only warm up a golfer will do before they hit the ball, is carrying their clubs to the first tee!

As well as having the correct equipment and the correct technique, the golfer needs their body to have the correct mobility and stability, to create the movement necessary for a successful golf swing.  When a golfer plays without the necessary physical preparation, they invite injury and don’t play to their full potential.

Common golfing injuries include:​

  • Lower back pain
  • Golfers elbow
  • Shoulder / rotator cuff injury
  • Knee pain
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​At City Osteopaths we use NG360°, the Nike Golf Performance System.  This is a scientific process of analysis and training that enables us to enhance athleticism and performance of golfers at all skill levels. This process, coupled with osteopathic principles and techniques, are a potent force for creating success on the golf course.
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We offer a unique and effective approach to treating golfers. This includes:​

  • Providing an accurate diagnosis of any golfing injuries
  • Performing specialist mobility assessment to understand areas of the swing for potential for improvement
  • Providing effective hands on treatment to improve mobility and help injured tissues heal
  • Prescribe a personalised exercise program to help golfers recover from injury, remain injury free and play better golf
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Written by Lewis Jenner M.Ost., FAFS, Reg Osteopath MONZ ​
See Lewis for:
​- Sporting injuries and exercise advice - Foot, ankle, knee and hip injuries
- Shoulder injuries
- Restrictions and mobility problems

Phone 04 4991439 and speak with one of our reception staff to make an appointment.
Our website www.cityosteopaths.co.nz has more information and online booking link.
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]]><![CDATA[City Osteopaths can help with your running injuries]]>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 04:38:14 GMThttp://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/blog/city-osteopaths-can-help-with-your-running-injuries​Summer is around the corner and many Wellingtonians are back on the road, getting the miles under their belts.  Unfortunately, some keen runners are dogged by injuries, that either limit their progress or stop them running completely.   In some unfortunate cases, these running related injuries can affect you when you are simply walking, or going about your daily lives.  
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Common running injuries include:
  • Runners knee
  • Achilles tendonitis
  • Hamstring strains
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Shin splints
  • Iliotibial band Syndrome (ITBS)

A pattern that we often see with our patients is that just as they start running and begin to make progress, then injury strikes.  So, they ease off or even stop running completely and the pain goes away.  Then, when you feel able to run again and increase your mileage, the pain comes back.  Sound familiar?...

At City Osteopaths, we offer a unique and effective approach to resolving running injuries.  This includes:
  • Providing an accurate diagnosis
  • Performing specialist functional movement assessment to understand the root cause of your injury
  • Providing effective hands on treatment to help injured tissues heal
  • Prescribing personalised exercise programs to help patients recover from injury, remain injury free and become better runners.

One unique aspect of our approach at City Osteopaths, that sets us apart from other clinics, is our accurate understanding of human function and running gait mechanics, as they relate to the whole body, not just the legs.  This is the result of specialist training undertaken at the Gray Institute in the USA, with some of the worlds leading specialists in injury prevention and rehabilitation.  We assess your top-to-toe movement, which enables us to get to the root of the problem.

Our goal at City Osteopaths is to:
  • Diagnose and resolve patients running injuries
  • Provide a management plan to help you remain injury free
  • Enable you to become better runners!
 
A wise person once said “When you want to look for a problem, you need to know where to look…”

Come and see us at City Osteopaths, to let us help make you a better runner

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Written by Lewis Jenner M.Ost., FAFS, Reg Osteopath MONZ ​
See Lewis for:
  • - Sporting injuries and exercise advice
- Foot, ankle, knee and hip injuries
- Shoulder injuries
- Restrictions and mobility problems

Phone 04 4991439 and speak with one of our reception staff to make an appointment.
Our website www.cityosteopaths.co.nz has more information and online booking link.

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Lewis Jenner M.Ost., FAFS, Reg Osteopath MONZ 
​​Lewis graduated from the British School of Osteopathy, the biggest and oldest osteopathic school in Europe. Before training to be an osteopath, he had a successful career in engineering. 
 
Lewis is the only osteopath in New Zealand to have completed the prestigious GIFT program, at the Gray Institute (USA), working with some of the world's leading experts in rehabilitation. He is also a certified Nike Golf Performance Specialstandworks with golfers to prevent and rehabilitate injuries and also improve their power, strength, flexibility and balance. 
 
By combining osteopathy with principles from the GIFT program, Lewis can perform functional movement based assessments and treatments, which can be tailored to the patients relevant sport or activity.  Lewis has a particular interest in treating injuries relating to running, golf and racquet sports, although his approach is effective for anybody that moves.
 
Lewis’ philosophy is about helping patients get better, quicker, so that they can overcome pain, feel like themselves again and get back to doing what they love to do. He also educates patients in how to self-manage their complaints using personalised exercise prescription and ergonomic advice
 
Lewis moved to Wellington from the UK, with his Kiwi wife and their two young boys 

See Lewis for:
  • Sporting injuries and exercise advice
  • Foot, ankle, knee and hip injuries
  • Shoulder injuries
  • Restrictions and mobility problems

Call 04 4991439 to speak to one of our experienced reception staff or book through our website link on our home page www.cityosteopaths.co.nz
]]><![CDATA[How to keep mobile and supple as you get older]]>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/blog/how-to-keep-mobile-and-supple-as-you-get-olderPicture
People around fifty years of age or earlier will usually notice their joints getting stiffer and muscles tighter.

As a Registered Osteopath, I hear this a lot in practice, “Oh it's just getting older” is usually the phrase. However have you stopped to think if that is really the case? It is true that our tissues lose some elasticity with the reduction in collagen as we head beyond fifty, however research has shown it is a case of “use it or lose it” rather than the passing years that determines how mobile we are as we get older. 

Movement is crucial for ‘oiling’ our joints with synovial fluid and improving the blood supply carrying nutrients and oxygen to every one of our nine trillion cells in our body.


Here are the top seven points for keeping mobile as we age:

  1. Develop a daily routine of gentle stretches - this can be a short as five minutes but needs to be done daily. Once you start, be determined to continue each day for the whole week, then add another week till you get to 3 or 4 weeks and then decide if it is helpful to you. Not missing a day means you can never go through being stiff and sore again!​​
  2. Time your stretches for the same time each day, at a time that works for you. People often find either first thing before breakfast, or when first home from work or just before bed are the best times in their busy schedule. I could say that “you wouldn't miss brushing your teeth for a day so think of your mobility exercise like that and don't miss a day!”
  3. Start gently and slowly build up. Some days you may only manage a couple of minutes and do your favourites, but at least you have not missed a day. Over time you might start to enjoy them so much you go to ten minutes or even twenty minutes on the weekend and really feel the benefits. Adding in a weekly class in Pilates or yoga with a qualified and experienced teacher is also very beneficial to support the daily practice and correct any technique issues you may have.
  4. If you are not sure what exercises to start with, ask one of our Reg. Osteopaths, we are experts in anatomy, physiology and suitable exercises. Also if we have treated you, we are pretty clued up about what will be best for your body too!
  5. Walking is usually a good way to get moving and within most people's ability. Try to walk on natural ground, that is surfaces that have some 'interest' to them rather then just flat pavements. Using minimalist footwear can really help improve the amount of proprioceptive feedback your central nervous system gets from your feet and legs which can be very helpful in reducing some forms of back pain.
  6. Ideally get your partner, friends or whole family joining in! If you can encourage each other, this will help you keep going. Also the whole family and your friends benefit, with better posture and mood (think blood to brain and more exercise induced endorphins).
  7. Add some balance exercises in there, this can be as simple as standing on one foot as you brush your teeth. Right foot for the top teeth, left foot for the bottom teeth. Falls are what can really set a person back when they are getting older, its the fall and break a hip which may be the injury never quite recovered from. 
  8. (PS: If you have already fallen then you don't need a doctors referral to come see one of our osteopaths. We can help you fill out the ACC forms in our clinic. We are able get you back on your feet in the nicest possible way then give you some suitable exercises to help prevent recurrence and to improve your overall wellness and mobility). 


Finally, I can report this works, not just from research but from my experience, having just completed nearly five years of daily mobility and strengthening exercises without missing a day. I feel SO good with this daily routine. I found by committing to it and waking a bit earlier I have been able to fit it into each day, while working full-time as an Registered Osteopath and small business owner and being mum to two primary school age children. 


"If you can allocate the small amount of time and make a commitment to yourself to do it daily, I promise you that keeping mobile as you age, IS possible!"

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​Melanie Young
B.A., BSc.(Clin Sc.) B.Osteo Sc. MONZ
Reg Osteopath
​Director City Osteopaths
Wellington
​New Zealand

​Phone 04 4991439

http://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz
]]><![CDATA[City Osteopaths Delicious Raw Vegan/Paleo Chocolate Mousse!]]>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:13:49 GMThttp://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/blog/city-osteopaths-delicious-raw-veganpaleo-chocolate-mousse
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Ever felt ill after eating traditional chocolate mousse? I certainly have. The cream and sugar was all too much for me.

I figured this recipe out recently while trying to make good chocolate ice-cream without the cream, sugar and eggs. The result was so thick and creamy it didn't need freezing and it was found to be delicious straight from the fridge which is always handy!

It's super easy to make and has a good amount of sustaining fats, antioxidants, iron, calcium and magnesium from the cacao and also some protein from the nuts.

I always make a decent amount so its worthwhile but you could halve the recipe if you are worried you might eat it all in one go! (or pop some in the freeze for another day)

If you can buy your ingredients in bulk its much cheaper. If you like to use cashews in your life, ask at Commonsense organics for their price on 2.5 kilos of cashew nuts. You can then store them in the freezer for longer shelf life.

Recipe:
Two cups of cashew nuts (preferably organic)  soaked overnight and rinsed and drained.
One can of quality coconut cream (we use Karo from Moore Wilsons)
One cup of cacao powder (we use Natava brand)
Half a cup of maple syrup (or honey)
Three tablespoons coconut oil melted on a low heat
Half a teaspoon vanilla extract
A good pinch of salt

Method:
Put all the ingredients into a high speed blender, the food processor will also work but you need to blend it for a while till the nuts are all blended in. Test it every couple of minutes till it is smooth. 
Then put into a container and into the fridge to chill. Done!

We love to serve the chocolate mousse with coconut yogurt and berries - in the photo above those are New Zealand blackcurrants. Not grown in China like many frozen berries are!
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Yes, you can see I tested it out in the bottom left hand corner!
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Thanks for reading. Enjoy.

Melanie Young
Reg Osteopath
Director City Osteopaths
www.cityosteopaths.co.nz
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