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20+ years’ experience providing hands-on osteopathic treatment and acupuncture specialising in acute and chronic neuromusculoskeletal injuries and pain management.
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Bondi Junction
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Located just opposite Bondi Junction train station. See Google view here.
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- 10 Facts About Pain & Recovery
- What To Do When Pain Is Chronic
- Complex Pain Conditions (Tough Cases)
- Osteopathy Treatment For Back & Neck Pain
- Acupuncture & Dry Needling in Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Radial Shockwave Therapy in Osteopathy
- Spinal Pain Recovery Times
- Common Myths About Posture & Pain
- Is My ‘Core’ Unstable?
- Osteopathy & Sports Injury Management
- Finding an Osteopath: Bondi Junction
- History of Osteopathy
- Laughter Is Medicine
Finding an Osteopath: Bondi Junction
The definition of pain and why has it changed over time
Does reassurance help or hinder in the treatment of pain?
Reassurance is a frequently advocated as a component of patient care in the treatment of pain and is included in many national practice guidelines for musculoskeletal pain management. Reassurance is usually recommended on the basis of an implicit conceptualisation model that assumes that information presented to patients effectively corrects mistaken beliefs about the nature or […]
Ideomotor Movement in Pain Management
There are numerous approaches to hands-on treatment used by the manual therapy professions. In osteopathy, manual manipulative techniques are often broadly defined by the terms ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’. Direct technique refers to the application of external force to engage a restrictive barrier and includes mobilisation with impulse technique, MET, articulation and soft tissue massage. In […]
Tackling Pain in People Living With HIV/AIDS
Pain management doesn’t end with medication. Education, empowerment and self-care are equally important factors in effective pain management. Pain is very common in people living with HIV, with self-reported pain rates across different settings ranging from 35% up to 91%.1 While there is evidence supporting a relationship between increased pain and decreasing CD4+ T cell […]
The Pleasure of Learning
According Irving Biederman of the University of Southern California and Edward Vessel of New York University, the process of acquiring new knowledge might actually be analgesic. Beiderman and Vessel believe that humans have an innate drive for information–we are ‘infovores‘–and they think that the same brain mechanisms which control pain and reward are responsible. The […]
Placebo: the Meaning Response
Understanding which components of the therapeutic encounter are valuable in producing positive responses to a health care intervention is an important responsibility of every health profession. The ability to produce specific treatment effects that intervene directly with the presenting dysfunction or pathology is the conventional aim of health care practice, and maximising these effects is […]
Sacroiliac joint fusion and the implications for manual therapy diagnosis and treatment
Assessment and treatment for sacroiliac dysfunction is common in manual therapy management for spinal pain and is based on the assumption that small movements occur at the sacroiliac joints (SIJ). SIJ dysfunction is often addressed using manipulation techniques, usually involving the application of manual forces to the joint complex. Considering the fact many of these […]
Myofascial release: an evidence-based treatment approach?
Myofascial Release (MFR) is an extremely popular manual therapy approach used by therapists in many professions treating neuromusculoskeletal problems. It is so popular, in fact, that the most well known MFR educator, John F. Barnes, claims to have instructed over 50,000 therapists worldwide in his approach. With so many therapists using MFR and, according to […]
The father of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field: Sutherland or Swedenborg?
William G. Sutherland’s cranial osteopathic concepts are arguably the most cherished and guarded ideas within osteopathy. No other topic engenders the degree of debate, controversy, defence or criticism that a discussion of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field (OCF) will invariably spark. In fact, a recent study published by myself and three French colleagues resulted in […]