How can your Osteopath help your child?

Osteopathy is a holistic approach to the body that considers the interconnectedness of the body's muscles, joints and systems. Typically adults are the ones getting treated, but at Ascot Vale Osteopathy, we treat children f...

Chronic pain: How pain catastrophising and fear of avoidance

Chronic pain syndrome is a complex multifactorial disease that affects 1 in 5 Australians over the age of 45. It is the third largest disease burden (surpassed by cancer and cardiovascular disease), and costs approximately ...

What is pain and how do you get rid of it?

Pain is an unpleasant, subjective experience which is associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Physiologically, pain is critical for survival, but when pain starts to affect our quality of life, we ask, “how do I get rid of this feeling?”. W...

Pain!

Pain has been a huge topic for discussion for a long time now. Nearly everyone feels it (I say ‘nearly’ because there is actually a very small minority of people with a special condition that does not allow them to feel pain), and it varies in charact...

Managing Your Lifestyle & Running Load

  The body’s aim is to remain balanced. The official term for this is allostasis: the ability we have to maintain stability through an ever changing environment. It is not just the external environment we need to ...

Why Does Your Osteopath Make You Walk Strangely? The Role of

Have you ever wondered why your osteopath asks you to walk back and forth while carefully observing your every step? We promise it’s not just for entertainment purposes or to make you feel self-conscious. Gait analysis is...

The Perfect Bra for Your Recovery

When you have had an injury or are recovering from breast surgery, it's likely that you will experience limited movement and mobility. Working with an Osteopath is the first step to improving movement and reducing pain, but this is often part of a longer-...

Love your knees!

The knee joint is the largest joint in the human body and is also quite a complex one, as it is actually made up of 2 joints. There are 3 bones that form these two joints. They are the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone) and the patella (knee cap). The ...

Protect Your Shoulders

Let’s talk about one of the most functional, but prone to injury areas in the human body, the shoulder complex.

 Shoulder Anatomy

The shoulder is comprised of three bo...

What pain relief is right for you?

Pain has been a huge topic of discussion for a long time now. Nearly everyone feels it, and it varies in character and severity depending on what part of the body is implicated. None of us like being in pain, so the first thing we do is to look for a solu...