Athletic 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

​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.

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

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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​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.  

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

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.

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

​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

​This short video is very relevant considering the high rate of back pain, 60-80% of the general population will suffer back pain at some time in their lives. The incidence is highest in the 45-54 years old age group. 

Would you like to know more about the causes of back pain?

Things that contribute to the likelyhood of back pain are: 
Poor health and nutrition
Increasing Age
Marked scoliosis
Reduced fitness
Loss of hamstring flexibility
Smoking
Psychological problems including Tension, Stress, Anxiety, Fear, Resentment and Depression
Drug abuse
Headaches
Neck pain
Leg discomfort
Stomach pains
Obesity
Poor quality of sleep
Excessive sitting
Pregnancy and caring for small children

For LBP in children (incidence 20-50%)
Too much TV
Competitive sports
Loss of hamstring flexibility
Birth strains and congenital anomalies which are problems a baby may be born with
Failure to receive appropriate treatment in growing years.

There are often many causes for the pain in your back and Osteopaths are even better trained than most medical doctors to figure out what has gone wrong, give you advice and treat appropriately so that most of the time your pain goes away quickly and you can avoid long term back pain, injections or surgery.

Osteopaths study for five years full-time at university to become very much a doctor of the musculoskeletal system. We study anatomy in great detail, along with physiology which is about how the body functions. We are trained to take a medical history, perform physical and osteopathic examination, appropriate orthopaedic and neurological tests and refer for x-rays to help us come up with a list of possible causes for your problem. Its always preferable when the cause of your pain is something we can treat and that is the case most of the time. When the cause is something else, we refer appropriately.