Osteopathy

Your first Osteopathy appointment

Your first osteopathy treatment at Oakwood Clinic will normally be 45 minutes, during which your osteopath will spend time at the beginning of the session taking down key information about your health and lifestyle.

Your posture and movements will be checked, and your osteopath will do some assessment tests to gain a clear picture of the cause of your problem. This may include hands-on tests on or around painful areas to check for tense muscles or stiff joints.

Your osteopath will assess you to make a full diagnosis and treatment plan tailored to your needs to help get you back to your best as quickly as possible, and will then explain the findings to help you understand your condition.

Follow-up treatments are normally 30 minutes – though some patients request treatments lengths of up to 60 minutes – and include a brief reassessment, followed by a full osteopathic treatment session and manual therapy.

Your osteopath may also give you stretches or exercises to continue with during the week. These are recommended for your individual needs to help you maintain the benefits of your treatment, and help you recover as quickly as possible.

Enfield Osteopathy (based in Southgate, N14) for local treatment

We’ve been serving the local community for over 20 years, and our highly-trained local Enfield osteopaths have wide-ranging treatment skills. We’re an Enfield osteopathic clinic, based in Oakwood, Southgate N14 in the Enfield Southgate consituency, and well situated so its not a long journey from anywhere across the town.

We’re based in Oakwood, North London osteopathy clinic and we’re easily reachable from Barnet, Winchmore Hill, Palmers Green, Cockfosters, and other nearby areas.

Our osteopaths have decades of experience, and are experts in treating common issues such as back pain, neck pain, joint pain and arthritis, leg pain, sciatica and trapped nerves, and many other conditions. If you give us a call, we can advise you based on your specific condition and how we could help with our osteopathic treatment.

Osteopathy Home Visits (Enfield, Southgate, Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill)

If you need or would prefer to have osteopathy treatment within the safety and comfort of your own home, we can arrange for one of our highly-trained osteopaths to visit you, as long as you live within easy travelling from the Clinic.

You will receive a high-quality face-to-face assessment and treatment similar to our osteopathy services at the Clinic. Osteopathy home visit costs vary as compared with Clinic visits — contact us for more details.

Cranial Osteopathy

Cranial Osteopathy can be effective for babies and children with sleep problems, feeding problems including poor latching on and regurgitating feed, restlessness, colic, respiratory problems such as cough and runny nose, wry neck, baby turning on one side all the time, flattened areas of the head, ear infections.

Our cranial osteopathy treatments in Enfield (N14, Southgate) can also help adults with a wide range of problems including long-term or chronic pain, headaches and migraines, pain that has been resistant to other treatments, stress relief, helping the body to recover from bereavement, shock or trauma, accidents, and whiplash.

Cranial osteopathy is a very gentle treatment. Using a very light touch the therapist senses areas of tension and dysfunction, and by gently holding the area the body begins to release this stored tension.

You can read more about the treatment on our Cranial Osteopathy page here.