Online Osteopathy
How does it work?
Online osteopathy appointments are quite simple. We use specialist software so we can see each other face to face, discuss your symptoms, carry out any movement tests we think would be beneficial, and then we can share our screen with you and take you through self-massage videos, stretches and exercises.
Before your Initial Appointment, you will receive an email from us with details of how to join the appointment.
Follow the instructions and try to make sure that your laptop, tablet or smartphone is set up and ready to go a few minutes before our start time. We can then talk and discuss your symptoms like we usually would, and use our skills to diagnose and prescribe you some exercises or changes to your daily routine that we think will help
Where does the treatment come in?
It’s true, we can’t physically treat you during an Online osteopathy appointment as we would in a traditional appointment, but we can collect information from you that allows us to assess you in very much the same way.
allowing you to benefit from the best osteopathy treatment at home. During a ‘traditional’ appointment we will spend an amount of time discussing your symptoms.
This is when we as osteopaths are doing the detective work to figure out what may be causing your pain or discomfort and deciding in our heads the best way to treat you. An online osteo assessment is very much the same in this respect.
We can still talk and discuss your symptoms like we usually would, and then we use our skills and clinical reasoning to diagnose what may be causing them.
The main difference comes in the next part of the session. Instead of us examining you on the treatment table, you will be asked to do some movements, stretches and ‘tests’. This is so that we can further see what may be causing your discomfort and decide on the best plan for getting you better.
The ‘treatment’ part of the session will involve us sharing our screen with you and taking you through some exercises or self-massage videos which we will then be sent to you as a bespoke program for you to follow.