Bringing a baby into the world is a big deal. Even when everything goes “perfectly,” birth is still a pretty intense experience - for both mum and baby. It’s a huge transition, physically and neurologically, and sometimes it can leave a few things needing a bit of settling afterwards. Add in medical interventions like forceps, ventouse, or a long labour, and that’s even more for a baby’s system to process. So Where Does Cranial Osteopathy Come In? Cranial Osteopathy is a very gentle, hands-on...

Cranial Osteopathy tends to split opinion a bit. Some people absolutely love it. Others aren’t quite sure what’s going on at all. And that’s fair, because it’s very different from what most people expect when they think of osteopathy. So What Is It? Cranial Osteopathy was developed by one of the earliest students of osteopathy, William Garner Sutherland . It’s a gentle, subtle form of osteopathic treatment that works with very small movements in the body - particularly around the head,...

When most people hear the word osteopathy, they tend to think of one thing: bad backs. And yes, osteopaths do treat a lot of back and neck pain. It’s one of the most common reasons people walk through the door. But interestingly, that’s not really where osteopathy started. The Original Idea: Osteopathy was developed in the late 1800s with a much bigger picture in mind. The original thinking was fairly simple, but quite profound: If the body moves well, blood flows well. If blood flows well,...