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Osteopathic Treatment for Pregnancy and Birth

At City Osteopaths, all our Osteopaths are Registered with the Osteopathic Council of New Zealand and four of us are trained to assess and treat pregnant women. This includes specific medical history considerations, treatment positioning for comfort and the most helpful, gentle treatment approaches to ease pregnancy pains and prepare for birth. We can usually help reduce or eliminate back pain, neck pain, pelvic pain, headaches, sinus, rib pain and/or reflux during any stage of pregnancy. W...

What to do for a concussion or mild head injury/ traumatic brain injury?

A concussion is a brain injury. It may involve loss of consciousness. However, a concussion most often occurs without a loss of consciousness.Concussions happen when bumps, blows, or jolts to the head or body cause the brain to move around inside the skull. It may also result from a whiplash effect on the head and neck. The brain injury that results can be mild or more severe and can disrupt how the brain normally works by causing bruising and swelling inside the skull which presses on sensitive...

OSTEOPATHIC MANUAL TREATMENT FOR NEWBORN BABIES AT CITY OSTEOPATHS.

The wellbeing of newborn babies is important not only to caring parents, but to the whole of New Zealand, as healthy babies become healthy children and have the best start in life.At City Osteopaths, our practitioners are skilled in supporting families during the initial phases of the baby’s life, enhancing this magical and peaceful pathway.Through an osteopathic consultation focusing on the pregnancy and labour history and a gentle physical examination of the baby, we can help provide an opti...

WHEN CAN A SOOTHER/PACIFIER/DUMMY BE A GOOD THING FOR A NEW BABY?

Parents are often scared away from using a soother with their baby, due to images of seeing a toddler with the plug stoppering their mouth when they are out and about each day. They have concerns it is silencing the child and reducing their speech development, damaging their dentition (how their teeth are aligned) along with getting disapproving looks from some adults around them. Using a soother from a young age may reduce the amount of milk a baby takes in each day and affect the amount of nut...