Melbourne Osteohealth: Fitzroy

About

Melbourne Osteohealth has highly qualified & experienced osteopaths who understand the mechanics injury and know how to provide relief. We take the time to listen to you and explain what's causing your pain, what can be done to ease it & what can be done to prevent it coming back.

We pride ourselves on being evidence based; we do what we do because research shows it works...so you can rest assured you're in good hands at MOH.

Our Osteos will spend 40 minutes with you to provide you with an individually tailored, evidence based approach to your health & wellbeing. We'll assess your movement & function and systematically test individual joints, muscles, nerves and ligaments; to determine the exact cause/s of your pain. We'll then use gentle 'hands on' techniques to target the actual causes of your pain and provide you with relief.

Techniques include:

Massage & muscle manipulation to relax tight muscles

Articulation to gently increase joint movement

MET to maximise movement with gentle muscle contractions

Gentle joint manipulations to restore movement instantly

Lymphatic techniques to improve circulation & promote healing

Once we've thoroughly assessed your problem, we can also prescribe exercises to help rectify your specific bio-mechanical imbalance and walk you through a tailored program, 1 on 1.

Clinical Pilates

Clinical Pilates at MOH is an intelligent approach to exercise & rehabilitation; it is a personalised program of specific exercises, individually tailored to correct your posture, balance your imbalances and strengthen your weaknesses...all under the direct supervision of a registered osteopath.

We understand that every body is different so we'll thoroughly assess you to work out exactly what's working well and what isn't; ensuring that your individual tailored program reduces your pain, rehabilitates your injuries and helps prevent re-injury....it's that simple.

Clinical Pilates at MOH is real preventative medicine in action; an evidence based approach to your musculoskeletal health...it'll help you strengthen your core, reduce your pain and prevent re-injury.... all while building a stronger, leaner body!

Clinical Pilates is great for a whole range of common problems:

- Low back pain, sciatica & pinched nerves

- Spondyloarthropathy, Spondylolisthesis & arthritis

- Disc bulges and herniations in the back & neck

- Whiplash, neck pain & headaches

- Shoulder injuries like rotator cuff tears, tendonitis & impingement

- Postural problems, thoracic & rib pain

- Pelvic instabilities & pregnancy related pain

- Hip injuries like labral tears, bursitis & arthritis

- Knee injuries including ligament tears, running & sport injuries

- Fracture & trauma rehabilitation

- Foot & ankle pain, including plantar fasciitis

- Pre & post surgical rehabilitation

Running Gait Analysis at MOH

Running is the single most participated in sport on earth, we all do it, on treadmills, tracks, squash courts & footy fields sometimes even for trams! We're all runners and running efficiently is crucial to avoiding injury and maximising endurance.

Running gait analysis identifies mechanical dysfunctions (even those that appear 10km into a run!) so that they can be corrected; reducing pain and the likelihood of hips and knees becoming prematurely arthritic.

MOH analysis involves watching you walk & run on a treadmill; we'll even film it so that we can play it back later, frame by frame. If we find an abnormality in your gait mechanics, we'll examine you further to accurately diagnose or rule out any structural variation or pathology and then we'll get down to the business of correcting your gait.

To correct your gait we can use hands on treatment, corrective exercises, advice on shoes to suit your gait style & even advice on orthotics to limit the impact of your altered mechanics.

So if you get pain during/after running or even walking, call us today.