Osteopathy is a hands-on healthcare approach that looks at how the body’s structure, movement, and function relate to comfort and wellbeing.

Osteopaths commonly work with muscles, joints, ligaments, fascia, nerves, and surrounding tissues. Treatment may include manual therapy, movement assessment, advice, and simple exercises or self-care strategies — all adapted to your individual needs.
People often see an osteopath for concerns such as:
  • Back and neck pain
  • Headaches
  • Joint or muscle discomfort
  • Sports or work-related injuries
  • Postural strain
  • Pregnancy-related discomfort
  • General aches, stiffness, or reduced mobility
Your osteopath may also consider how nearby joints, muscles, breathing patterns, old injuries, daily habits, stress, or movement patterns may be influencing how your body is coping. The aim is to support better movement, comfort, and function.
Assessment may include looking at posture, movement, joint mobility, muscle tone, and how different areas of the body relate to each other. Treatment is usually hands-on and may include joint movement, soft tissue techniques, stretching, mobilisation, cranial techniques, or other approaches depending on your needs and the practitioner’s style.
Cranial osteopathy
Cranial osteopathy is a gentle style of osteopathic treatment that uses subtle hand contact, often around the head, spine, sacrum, and body as a whole. Although the touch can be very light, the practitioner is still assessing movement, tension, and tissue relationships through the body. This approach may be used with people of different ages and is often chosen when a gentler, non-forceful style of treatment is preferred.
Osteopathy for pregnancy, babies, and children
Pregnancy, birth, and early childhood all involve big changes for the body. Osteopathy offers gentle, hands-on care that can be adapted for pregnant women, new mothers, babies, and children.
During pregnancy and after birth, osteopathy may support comfort and movement as the body adapts to changes in posture, pelvic loading, breathing, ligament flexibility, and the physical demands of caring for a baby.

For babies, osteopathic care offers gentle support for babies who are unsettled, feeding with difficulty, showing reflux-like or colic-like discomfort, having sleep difficulties, or recovering from a difficult or prolonged birth. Our osteopaths are experienced in working with babies and infants and can see your baby from shortly after birth.
For young children, osteopathy may be used after falls, bumps, postural strains, or injuries from active play and development. Treatment is always adapted to the child’s age, comfort, and needs.
Registered ACC providers
Our osteopaths are ACC registered providers. They can lodge a new ACC claim for an injury or work with an existing claim. Click here for more info.

Osteopaths