Arthritic Hands
It’s not often that someone books in with me for hand pain alone (arthritic or otherwise), it tends to be something they mention later. We can absolutely help if your main or only concerns are arthritic hands. The two main forms of arthritis that affect the hands are osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Osteoarthritis […]
Does Osteopathy Help with Osteoarthritis?
What is Osteoarthritis? Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, that people sometimes just call “arthritis”. For simplicity’s sake we will only cover osteoarthritis (or OA for short) in this post. Often people just accept it as a by-product of getting older, but this isn’t really the case. Previously the tagline that’s gone with […]
Osteoarthritis: the most common arthritis explained
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis, which we often refer to as “wear and tear”. More recently, the more optimistic “wear, tear, and repair” has been the explanation of choice. It’s a normal age related change like grey hair or wrinkles. For a lot of people it won’t cause any symptoms, and it […]