Can osteopathy help an 80 year old who suffers from general pain due to ageing?
There is no age limit in osteopathy for helping patients. In fact, osteopaths treat from babies to the elderly, adapting techniques to the patients particular needs. Degenerative processes with age are physiological, modern society has managed to increase our life expectancy thanks to hygienic conditions against infection and nutrition without deficiencies. Our joints lose the cartilage that cover and lubricate them, our discs and meniscus dry up and fissure, our bones lose calcium and become fragile and our range of movement is reduced. The best way to stop this process is by MOVEMENT; because it maintains good circulation, it improves the quality of synovial fluid in joints, maintains muscle and ligament tone and it is also the stimuli that bones need to continue resisting mechanical load. Lack of movement produces atrophy, ischemia, oedema and finally necrosis or tissue death. Our aim is to functionally balance the deteriorated structures the best way possible and bring back a bette