Osteopathy and Seniors
Restore balance, enhance mobility, and promote health to enjoy life
Improving quality of life for seniors
Maintaining mobility, balance, and health becomes crucial as we age. Moving around freely enhances our quality of life and prevents falls and injuries. Osteopathy can be that vital element in helping those over 50 maintain these essential aspects, facilitating independent and active living.
Our bodies go through various changes as we age. Joints may become stiffer, balance might be compromised, and mobility can become more challenging. This is where Osteopathy therapy can change your life.
Osteopathy supports the body’s natural healing processes and promotes a sense of well-being by focusing on the following:
Enhancing joint flexibility
Improving range of motion and
Addressing imbalances in the body
Whether managing chronic pain or reducing discomfort from age-related conditions, you Osteopathy offers a path towards a better quality of life for the elderly and helps optimise health.
How can Osteopathy specifically benefit older adults?
Throughout the natural ageing process, seniors often have to deal with various age-related conditions. Osteopathy offers relief for a wide range of conditions associated with ageing. Here are some of the age-related conditions whose symptoms Osteopathy can help ease:
Arthritis
Osteopathic techniques can help reduce pain and improve joint mobility. By gentle manipulative techniques, especially combined with easy and gentle exercises, help elders suffering from arthritis like osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoporosis
Osteopathy can help manage and prevent osteoporosis-related complications. These complications can include bone fractures and postural issues.
Back and Neck Pain
Once over the 50s elders experience back and neck pain due partly to naturally occurring degenerative changes and lack of movement. Osteopathic treatments can help relieve pain, improve posture, and enhance spinal health.
Muscle Stiffness
Ageing bodies can experience muscle stiffness which could limit mobility and lead to discomfort. Osteopathy employs gentle techniques to release tension, improve local circulation, restore muscle flexibility, and promote movement.
Postural Changes
Changes in posture can occur with age, affecting balance and overall health. Poor posture and balance issues are common in seniors, increasing the risk of falls and injuries. Osteopathy can help by realigning the spine and improving posture. By focusing on correcting imbalances and posture, osteopathic Manual Therapists can improve stability and reduce the risk of falls, helping seniors stay more comfortable and safer.
Age-Related Degenerative Conditions
Osteopathy can help people with age-related conditions like spondylosis or degenerative disc disease. It does this by improving how the joints move, encouraging more self-movement and building strength, leading to a reduction or stabilisation of pain in these conditions.
Reducing Stress and Supporting Mental Health
Tension and stress are common in older adults, mostly when dealing with chronic health conditions or the limitations that come with aging. Osteopathy can help reduce tension and promote relaxation by stimulating the nervous system. This contributes to physical relief and improves mental health.
How we treat you at Royal Sports Clinic
Through osteopathic treatments, seniors can improve their range of motion, strength, and coordination. Techniques such as stretching, joint manipulation, and soft tissue massage are commonly used. This can help you achieve peak performance and address any underlying issues that may have been limiting your abilities.
An osteopathy session typically lasts 60 minutes and is tailored to the your individual needs.
Each consultation is structured in four stages to ensure effective and comprehensive osteopathic treatment.
Treatment Plan
Consultation
Treatment
Follow-up visit
Issues Seniors experience
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Joint Pain & Mobility
Osteopaths encourage your joints to move using gentle techniques to increase the joints range of movement and stretch muscles and tendons which have become tight.
Mobility helps reduce inflammation, pain and stiffness. As we get older joints naturally become stiffer and osteopathy works to limit restrictions to your mobility to help you keep active.
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Arthritis
As there is no cure for arthritis, osteopathy can ease arthritic symptoms such as pain, swelling and stiffness in joints and tissues and muscles around the joint.
Osteopathy can ease the debilitating stiffness and soreness arthritis impacts your daily life with, restoring some joint mobility and helping to prevent deterioration.
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Posture & Back Pain
As you get older your posture changes and can cause great strain on surrounding muscles and joints, most common is the ‘hunching’ in your upper back.
Osteopaths can help improve this deteriorating posture through soft tissue massage techniques that gently stretch muscles and connective tissues.
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Stress & Mental Health
Physical pain affects your daily life. It limits what you’re able to do, where you can go and who you can see. It is frustrating, isolating and can lead to loneliness and even depression.
Your osteopath can indirectly help improve your mental health by focusing on reducing your physical pain and working towards realistic goals to help improve your daily life.
Common conditions for Senior Osteopathy
Lower back pain / sciatica
Neck pain / headaches / migraines
Postural concerns
Hip pain
Degenerative Disc Disease
Shoulder pain
Balance disorders
Osteoporosis
Arthritic symptoms
Chronic pain management
Joint pain
Circulatory Problems
If you are an senior struggling with persistent pain or health conditions we encourage you to consider Osteopathy at Royal Sports Clinic. Make an appointment today for a consultation with one of our expert osteopaths.