Osteopathy

Most of my friends are aware of Hayley, my younger daughter's learning difficulties. She is 5 going on 6 and has been assessed by an educational psychologist that she displays strong signs of dyslexia.

At the beginning of this year, she started her intervention classes at Orton Gillingham as well as speech and language therapy at Speech Inc.

My child was also asked to undergo Occupational Therapy and will start her session at Kidz Paediatrics tomorrow. Recently, I had been advised by a friend to visit an osteopath to see if the treatment will help Hayley focus better and to cope with her dyslexia.

The following links provide some information on osteopathy and craniosacral work:-

http://www.hands-on-london.com/osteopathy.html
http://www.hands-on-london.com/osteopathy_sciatica.html

http://www.milneinstitute.com/forms/A%20CLIENT%20intro.pdf

We have gone for 2 sessions and its quite interesting as to how the treatment is being administered. The patient is asked to rest on a massage table and the therapist monitors the craniosacral rhythm with his hands while supporting the back of the patient's head. He conducts other gentle assessments and corrects the sources of pain and dysfunction using gentle manipulative techniques, for example at points around the patient's ears and temples.

Hayley has an extremely low threshold for pain but she has yet to complain about any discomfort during the therapy, which is good news to me!