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Please help me split up with my Osteopath

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morningpaper · 12/04/2007 15:25

I've been seeing her for a bad back.

Well it's feeling a bit better but maybe it would have got better anyway?

I don't really believe in it. She asks me what I am feeling and I don't really KNOW exactly. I can't afford to keep seeing her.

What happens if really it is secretly working and if we split up I fall down ill and have to be wheeled away, a cripple?

Please help

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tinkerbellhadpiles · 12/04/2007 15:27

Just don't go again! They are used to customer churn. I was treated by an osteopath and it seemed to help but I still think it's bollocks

tinkerbellhadpiles · 12/04/2007 15:28

Oh and if you suddenly did become a cripple there are a phone book full of them : )

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morningpaper · 12/04/2007 15:28

I COULD just have a massage every week!

Or join a posh gym!

Or just go to work instead of rolling in late when I only do about 20 minutes a week anyway!

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morningpaper · 12/04/2007 15:30

I've fallen asleep for every session anyway

She says this is reaching a deep exhaustion within me

But really I just have two small children who never sleep

It IS a valid reason for falling asleep when someone makes you lie down in a quiet dark room

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Freckle · 12/04/2007 15:36

I luuurrve osteopaths. I do see treatment as a form of therapy for more than just my back problem. Keep going. At least you have an opportunity to sleep.....

SoupDragon · 12/04/2007 15:49

It does work. My osteopath treated my back over the course of several weeks and it got better but the real clincher was when he sorted out the persistant crick in my neck in under 3 minutes.

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morningpaper · 12/04/2007 15:52

This is sacra-cranial

it is fringe, even for osteopaths

I feel like she has two hats under the table, one with slips of paper with emotions on, and one with parts of the body on, and she pulls out two and matches them up

"Let's see ... You have "Jealousy" in ... "your hip"!"

can't bear it

feel like Dana Scully

then I hand over forty quid

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Carmenere · 12/04/2007 15:53

Why do you have to have regular appointments, just go when you need to. My dp is an osteopath and just sees most patients when they need it, afaik the only ones who go regularly are the ones who live with chronic pain.
And it does work, works on me anyway.

oliveoil · 12/04/2007 15:53

my back was sorted with about 3 sessions, so she may be on the blag

I have deep exhaustion, it's called Life, Children and Illness Syndrome

only cure is running away

Mum2FunkyDude · 12/04/2007 15:55

Spend it on physio instead. Mine did my neck in 2 sessions, my hip in 4. At least she taught me how to manage my injuries at home.

Carmenere · 12/04/2007 15:56

Oh well yes..... dp does that too but he not a hippy emotional type, he has a much more scientific approach. That stuff is all about manipulating the fluid around your scull and the way your skull plates sit in it or summat. I think it can be very effective at relieving tension but I'm not sure it has anything to do with jealousy

SoupDragon · 12/04/2007 15:56

Oh, I have my doubts abut cranial osteopathy. Is she from the "place their hands on you and do b*gger all" school of osteopathy?

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morningpaper · 12/04/2007 16:00

Soupy: maybe

Mum2 I hae had about 2 years of physio, I think that things have eased over time (a year) - still suffer from slight SPD but I think exercise would probably help more

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Lazycow · 12/04/2007 16:01

Never seen an osteopath. I saw a chiropractor - far more satisfactory. Lots of pulling and clicking and all over in 15 mins max.

It deffo worked though as when I drove there pushing my foot down on the gear pedal was agony and I was crying when I got there. On the way home the pain hadn't completely gone but it was much more bearable.

She suggested 4-6 treatments (1 a week) and then 1 follow-up every 3-4 months. I did do the follow-ups for a while but then went abroad for a while so stopped going.

Why not tell her you are moving so won't be able to go back there as it will be impossible to get there or something like that? A lie I know but hey ho!

rebelmum1 · 12/04/2007 16:01

I just not go back if you're uncomfortable with it and can't see the benefit. It's a bit pricey not to be sure. Tell her that you need to check when you're free when you next make your next appointment and that you'll call..

lazymummy · 12/04/2007 16:31

morningpaper - she doesn't happen to be based in islington does she? I went to see a cranial osteopath there a few years ago for a bad neck. I found it very pleasant, and relaxing and rather enjoyed the kind of spiritual, ritualistic side of it ie she would go into a trance and scan my aura at the start of the session, picking out the bad bits and flicking them away (or so it appeared) and then she would burn sage around me and the room at the end of the session to get rid of negative energy. DH thought she was bonkers of course but I loved it, loved all that!

Anyhoo, my neck pain (which apparently was caused by trauma in my uterus) eventually disappeared. I suspect it would have done anyway but I rather enjoyed the sessions and was sad when I didn't need them any more.

Why don't you just tell your osteopath that your back feels 100% better, she is truly a great healer and what a pity that you won't need to come back any more. Then off you pop to the doctor and get some physio and a few hard core pain killers.

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morningpaper · 12/04/2007 16:34

lazymummy

I live in Somerset but sounds similar

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nannyj · 12/04/2007 16:49

Just hand over the £40 to me and i'll take the kids and you can still sleep but i will throw a bit of ironing in too

rebelmum1 · 12/04/2007 17:10

ha ha

puffling · 12/04/2007 19:41

Go to the gym instead, and strengthen your body. If your back feels better then, you'll know there's a tangible reason why. Alternatively, see a sports physio.
I had an ostymiologist (break away group from Osteopathy!) I just stopped going.

Aloha · 12/04/2007 19:49

I think osteopathy is a con! I had severe ovarian cysts which were causing back pain and got a lot of quasi-scientific gubbins from an osteopath about all the awful mechanical things that were wrong with my back and that I was going to hell in a handcart if I didn't come back for X number of sessions to be tweaked about in my bra and knickers. Had the cysts diagnosed by a proper doctor, removed by a proper surgeon and never had so much as a twinge of back pain ever since (except in labour, but that's another story...)
Ditch the osteopath!

OrvilleRedenbacher · 12/04/2007 19:50

yes its the bra nd apants bit i dont like

Aloha · 12/04/2007 19:51

Oh and I could (and did) sleep in the dentists chair when my kids weren't sleeping. Reaching a deep exhaustion my arse! (mumsnet makes me terribly coarse!)

Aloha · 12/04/2007 19:51

Yes, bra and pants a horrible, horrible shock.

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morningpaper · 13/04/2007 08:18

Hmm has anyone who has stripped down to bra and pants seen a FEMALE osteopath?

I keep ALL my clothes on.

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