Please help me split up with my Osteopath

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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

You need to find the right practicer for you. They all do different methods as do chiropractors. I gave my osteo 2mths of weekly visits, pain was not getting better. I went on vacation, he went on vacation, so didn't go for 4wks and pain gone, but then came back when I did the garden, bugger .

Have now found a woman chiro who does mctimoney chiropractic, one visit and I'm feeling a lot better. She even said she wouldn't keep me going in week after week if she couldn't help me, but would refer me on.

well it was a man
was hugely pg at the time so nto at all sexy

Hmm

I have heard of osteopaths asking lady clients to remove their clothes but so far ALL of these have been male osteopaths

Isn't that a bit STRANGE

i had those cups once. by the same bloke who did them on gwyneth.

now THATS a load of crap, lemme tell you.

(i only went coz dp thought he was a god coz he cured his back)

and then he tried to flog me a 'detox and weightloss' program for a million squid.
what a cock.

why not be an alternative therapies tart for a while? Keep your once a week appt but try everything on offer - you might find something really good

I id Alexnader lessons for ages - did find that it helped with back and neck, Plus I got on well with my teacher.

he DID refer me to an underling tho, to teach me some corestrength exercises... and said underling was a GOD and gave me the deep tissue massage i have craved my whole life which went a lot further to helping my back/neck prob than those sodding stupid expensive cup things...

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"I have heard of osteopaths asking lady clients to remove their clothes but so far ALL of these have been male osteopaths

Isn't that a bit STRANGE"

Is that not simply because most of them are male? Why is it so strange - you strip for a massage for example so why is it odd to strip if they're manipulating your spine? You can wear shorts apparently.

I have been to a male osteo and a female one and on both occasions have had to strip to bra but could keep trousers on. Lovely for them i'm sure

My osteopath is lovely and VERY effective. I certainly couldn't sleep through what she does; it's a bit oo-ouch at times but I do feel immeasurably better afterwards, especially the next day.

Yes I do strip down to underwear so she can see and feel where the problems are. I don't have an amazing body but I'm there to be treated, not photographed by a glamour magazine. If I was uncomfortable with it she'd let me keep more things on, but it makes sense that they can work on your bits easier without layers of clothing.

If yours is doing vague arcane things you need to get yourself a better class of osteopath. They do vary tremendously. I've been to four in all. Funny thing, the least effective (who was into the "cranial bollocks", and did strange things with magnets to my son's ear) was the most expensive, and this one who is brilliant was the cheapest. She's recently gone up to £32 a half hour. I see her on average once a month.

I saw an oesteopath when I was about 18

He bent me into all sorts of posotions and made everything go click crack CRUNCH

And I hobbled out and caught the bus home

There was none of that 'jealousy in your hip' crap. He said I wasn't walking straight, probably because I have flat feet and overly mobile joints, and that combined with coming off a scooter onto tarmac at 30 miles an hour had forced my hip joint out of position, putting huge strain opn my spine.

And true enough, after all the beatings he gave me, I never had pain like that again.

now if you're paying osteo / chiro prices you really want a big 'crack' noise in your bones .. not some airy fairy touching of head nodules don't you

I love my chiroprcacter .. he does twisty things that makes my spine go 'bang' and then feels so much better

I wouldn't pay for head stuff tbh

hehehe Twiglett

you are right

not enough pain and cracking

I got RSI in my wrists. Went to a bonesetter. Alledgedly a sort of osteopath. He forced my ligaments over the bones in my hands (ouch!) then he started on forearms, then my cervical vertebrae in my neck popped out then down my spine in a kind of ripple effect. He 'pushed' the cervical vertebrae back into place. Felt wrong. Then went to see a proper osteo. He did cranial bollocks. Did bugger all. But I did need to fart? Kept clothes on. Saw him for 2 years once a month. Then went to homeopath, the talking helped (not the sugar pills) until she started to spend sessions talking about her divorce and how stressful it was (I became 'busy and skint' after that). Then decided to live with the feeling of bits being popped out of place until 3 yrs ago. Went to see new osteo. Stripped down to knickers. I know. But it WORKED after 6 sessions. And he gave me an explanation for why I had such problems that wasn't a load of hocus pocus. But I did stop him touching my boobs 'Is there pain in your ribs, there' indicating ribs behind boobs...I was very quick to deny it and assure him they were 'a okay thanks!!'

So there you go, be skint, busy, all okay and find another osteo or try something different. Or try getting boobs out and see if that helps. Worked for me.

Hmm thanks Ally

That's helpful

But it's a lot of money to invest on the crazy people before finding someone that MIGHT help

I think I might look into the one-on-one Pilates sessions - that might be more constructive

Your welcome ;)

I do yoga, that has helped my general flexibility and I think its actually strengthened my wrists, and it works out all the 'kinks' in my back and neck. Lot less discomfort now.