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The beautiful combination of Osteopathy and Pilates to support women with leaking and pelvic floor issues
Pelvic floor health is essential for women, particularly during and after pregnancy. It affects women's overall health and well-being, from daily functions to sexual pleasure. However, many women face pelvic pain, prolapse, incontinence, and other issues that make it...
I’ve had a csection so why do I get pelvic floor issues?
Why do I leak? Why do I have painful s*x or why am I getting feelings of a prolapse? https://vimeo.com/817554377 I had a csection.... So Why do I have painful s*x or leak when I sneeze?? Watch this video by Jo Day our specialist Women's Health Osteopath. She will let...
Can Osteopathy help dementia? A patient story.
How osteopathy can treat dementia patients and slow the progression of the disease by involving the patient’s family, using home exercises to increase flexibility and breathing, and addressing external factors like stress.
What is pelvic floor Osteopathy, and how can it help you?
Pelvic Floor Myths
Leak when you sneeze or jump?
This is called Stress Incontinence, and you don't need to live with it. What is it? What can be done about it? This is when day to day, in normal circumstances, you are able to hold your wee, and don't leak. But then with extra pressure or stress somewhere in your...
C- Section Recovery Guide
Welcome to our Cesarean Section recovery guide, with top tips on how to help your healing, support yourself or your partner, and get out of pain.
Tailbone Pain Postnatal (coccyx pain) is common BUT NOT NORMAL… Don’t live with it!
Coccyx pain is really common postnatally, after birth and sometimes for a long time after birth. Although this is not a normal part of the postnatal period, and you really don't have to live with it. Often called coccydynia (which just means coccyx pain), this can...
Nutrition for Optimal Postnatal Healing – Guest Blog from Michele Kingston
How do you heal the body with nutrition after having a baby? Guest blog written by Michele Kingston from TNM Clinic, St. Albans. Hello, I am Michele Kingston, I am a registered nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner. Nutritional and functional...
Antenatal Education – Guest Blog by Midwife team – PBB Events
Antenatal Education - Starts from the moment you find out you are pregnant. Guest Blog written by Emma Trollope from PBB Events. Hi! My name is Emma Trollope, I am a midwife and have been working within the NHS for the past 13 years. With my mum (who is also a...
Encouraging Optimal Foetal Positioning By Grace Lillywhite
Encouraging Optimal Foetal Position - GUEST BLOG, written by Grace Lillywhite, Founder of Centred Mums Pilates and Wellbeing Grace Lillywhite How daily movement can guide your baby into the perfect place for birth. The position of your baby in the womb can have a huge...
What chair do I get?
OK so we all know that working from home can really take a toll on your body. With increasing amounts of neck, shoulder pain, headaches and jaw ache coming in to the clinic... I have been asked by many patients WHAT CHAIR DO I BUY???? So in terms of chairs, it's...
It’s all about the big toe!!
Jo has started her own podcast in all things Osteopathy for fellow osteopath, health pros and patients. Giving knowledge of various issues, ramblings of life as an Osteopath and chats with other health pros and osteopaths too. Find All.Things.Osteo podcast on various...
When is a calorie not a calorie…..
When is a calorie not a calorie....?? So there's a huge load of info out there on calories and the obesity epidemic. More recently the research has been looking at how obesity might actually be an infectious disease rather than a lifestyle based disease. For years we...
New podcast: ALL THINGS OSTEO
Check out Jo's brand new podcast: All.Things.Osteo https://anchor.fm/All.Things.Osteo Aiming to bring Osteopathy and all things bodies, health, biomechanics, women's health and more.... to anyone who fancies a listen. Spread the the word, share the love, and subscribe...
Available to book now: Our lovely new pilates teacher, Joanna.
Joanna our new pilates teacher here at Herts Osteopathy.
Available for one-to-ones and group classes.
New classes running over August and the Autumn term. Book Online 🙂
Fix Your Gait
We can #FixYourGait
How your biomechanics, and essentially, your foot and big toe, are SUPER IMPORTANT to everything! #prehab #rehab
SCIATICA is NOT a diagnosis, it is a symptom
So I have felt compelled to write a short blog post on this overused term "sciatica" and how frustrating it is when patients have been told this is what they have. As a patient it gives you no information other than telling you that your sciatic nerve is inflamed (at...