AB Osteopathy

AB Osteopathy A.B. Osteopathy is a family oriented clinic. The clinic offers a wide variety of treatments includin

Osteopathy is a manual form of health care that treats the body as a whole. Osteopathy works on the physical body to allow it to return to good health. From newborns to elderly, including athletes and pregnant women, everyone can benefit from osteopathy.

03/09/2026

There is no One way to do tummy time.

25/08/2026

Simples exercises for headaches and neck tension.

You will need:
✨1 theraband

Those exercises are designed to enhance the movements of your neck, strengthen neck and back muscles, and improve posture.

1- chin retraction🐔
2- head rotation 🙂‍↔️
3- rowing 🚣‍♀️

Disclaimer: there are many types of headaches. Check with your health provider is those are right for you.

15/08/2026

If slouching is making your upper back, neck and shoulders uncomfortable, you can do these 3 exercises:

1- Cat - Cow 🐮
2- Puppy stretch 🐶
3- Foam roller: rib cage and shoulder girdle release ↔️

Disclaimer: check with your practitioner if this is the right fit for you.

13/08/2026

The narrative around women’s postpartum health needs to change.

And yes, even if your kids have grown up. 🕰️

Too often still, I hear women dismissing symptoms that affect their quality of life, their relationships, their social life, their ability to jump on the trampoline with their kids as « normal because they had children. »🤰

“Bowel or bladder leaking, abnormal bleeding/spotting, lower back, painful periods, pelvic pain, incontinence, severe constipation, pain during in*******se, urgency to go to the toilet etc.”

⚠️What they describe might be common, but it is NOT normal.

Please, please, please don’t settle without first consulting your physician and a pelvic floor and women’s health specialist.

A proper assessment and professional guidance can turn things around.

Tell your friends 🗣️

08/07/2026

I will be back on Tuesday August 4th.
You can book online on. www.abosteopathy.net
I look forward to seeing you then.

28/06/2026

What can help your sciatica?

2 ways to release the piriformis (the buttock muscle that sits closely to the sciatic nerve):

-🎾using a massage ball (choose the intensity that feels right for you. More intensity doesn’t mean better outcome)
-🪑stretching using the figure 4. This can be done sitting (on the floor or a chair) or even lying down (not shown on that video). Use the breath to relax into the stretch.

🚨Disclaimer: the piriformis is commonly involved in sciatica but it is NOT the cause of ALL sciatica presentations.
Check with your health practitioner if those exercises are the right fit for you.

26/06/2026

Relationship between the head 👶and the tongue 👅of your baby:

Part 4- Benefits of supporting your baby’s tongue movements

26/06/2026

Relationship between the head 👶and the tongue 👅of your baby:

Part 3- Treating baby’s head and upper neck to help their tongue movements

❌ there is no « clicking »
✅ gentle hand for gentle decompression of the skull and freeing of the soft tissues around the head and the neck.

25/06/2026

Relationship between the head 👶and the tongue 👅of your baby:

Part 2- how compressive forces to baby’s skull (during pregnancy and birth) affect nerve exists.

One of those nerves is the hypoglossal nerve, which is motor to the tongue. It commands how the tongue moves: curls, lifts, drops, spreads, points.

It exists the skull through a tiny channel (the hypoglossal canal), at the base of the skull (occiput).

What happens to the occiput (which is in 4 seperate pieces at birth that haven’t fused yet) can irritate the hypoglossal nerve and interfere with the message to the tongue and how the tongue moves.

pregnancyandbirth

24/06/2026

Relationship between the head 👶and the tongue 👅of your baby:

Part 1 - what happens to your baby’s head during pregnancy and birth

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