Plate VII
Older adults & balance
Stiff mornings, worn hips and knees, the fear of falling. Slower appointments, a lower table, chair-based exercises and a programme built around staying independent.
Within the week; home visits Tuesday and Thursday
Plate VII, fig. 1What we see
Most of it is routine, some of it is this week, and a few things are not us at all.
Plate VII
Seen: within the week; home visits tuesday and thursday.
First visit from £64. Through the green door on the ground floor, step-free from the lane. You see Karolina or Ruth.
Arthritis in the joint, tendon pain on the outside of the hip, or referred pain from the back.
A first visit; for over-60s with arthritis the Steady programme suits. Sudden inability to bear weight after a fall is an X-ray first.
Worn hips, knees and spines. Not curable, very manageable, and the right exercise does more than anything else.
The Steady programme with Karolina, or a home visit if getting here is the problem. Gentle techniques; no manipulation where bones are fragile.
Thinner bones do not stop you having treatment, but they change what we do. Say so when you book.
Book a first visit and tell us; we use mobilising and soft-tissue work, never manipulation, and the exercises follow bone-health guidance. Sudden severe mid-back pain with osteoporosis is a GP visit for an X-ray first.
Plate VII, fig. 2Treatments on this plate
Price is fixed before you book; length is what you get.
A 45-minute assessment and three follow-ups over six weeks with Karolina: mobility, strength and balance, £220.
Karolina Nowak · next Thu 10:30
£2204 visits over 6 weeks
Book →45 minutes with a GOsC-registered osteopath: what is going on, treatment on the day, and a plan with a number of visits.
Ruth Ashdown · next Tue 08:15
£6445 minutes
Book →A 60-minute osteopathy visit at home within eight miles of Fennbridge, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Karolina Nowak · next Thu 10:30
£11060 minutes at home
Book →Plate VII, fig. 3Who you see
Every osteopath is on the GOsC register; the chiropractor on the GCC's.
Plate VII, fig. 4Before you book
Older adults & balance
Stop here first
Some things are not ours, or not ours first.
Honest about the evidence
- Fifteen minutes of questions: how it started, what makes it better or worse, how you sit, sleep and work, and what you want back - Watching you move, then examining the joints and tissues by hand; the osteopath explains what they feel as they go - Treatment on the day: soft-tissue work, stretching, mobilising and, if it will help and you agree, manipulation (the click) - Two or three things to do at home, and a plan with an honest number of visits and a review point at visit three
Written inside the GOsC and ASA advertising rules, and it says so.
Yes. We do not manipulate, we use gentle mobilising and soft-tissue work, and the exercise plan is exactly what bone health guidance recommends: standing, strength and balance.
Something loose you can move in. For a back or hip we may ask you to strip to underwear or wear shorts; we have shorts and a gown, a towel covers you, and you can keep leggings on if you prefer. Tell us what you are comfortable with.
Only if it is likely to help and you want it. The click is gas releasing in a joint, not bone; it is one technique among many and plenty of people never have it.
Eight miles from the wharf: Fennbridge, Wexbury, the canal villages and the Ridge estates. Further out we will point you to someone nearer.
Many do, because a DSE assessment is something they are supposed to provide. Ask, or give them Daniel's number; we invoice companies directly.
Often, but Sophie screens carefully and does not manipulate where bones are thin or the neck shows warning signs. Many over-60s do better with Karolina's gentler approach, and the triage or Grace will steer you.
Free, at the wharf
In the diary for this plate
Sudden severe back pain?
Phone and Grace answers. Say where it hurts and whether you can do mornings.
01632 960440everything else within 48 hours. No GP referral needed.
Two doors, one green
Green door, Lock Lane (ground floor)
Step-free.
Back & neck Pregnancy & postnatal Babies & children Older adults & balance Second opinion
Green door, then one flight of stairs (rooms 2 and 3)
One flight of stairs; ask for the ground floor if you need it.
Desk & posture Headaches & jaw Sports massage