Phone: 0362345510
Walking 30 mins a day is the best exercise for your body.
Walking is great to help with chronic pain and low back pain. Dress warm and use correct footwear.
Join us for a walk and feel the benefits.
Please call to register and have an assessment to see if this is the correct exercise for you.
This week Osteopaths around Australia are reminding consumers of health care that Osteopaths are highly trained in the Sports medicine area and musculoskeletal fields. With pre-season training over, most winter sports are underway and keeping injury free and fit is the goal to successful team sport, along with having fun and doing your best. Winning is about participating with your mates, enjoying fitness and health.
Pamela Dennis is a qualified sports trainer and has sports first- aid qualifications. Trained at the advanced level with 9 years plus in Dry Needling for sporting injuries of the musculoskeletal system. Prevention of chronic pain with early intervention of correct care and rehabilitation are a focus to her practice. Dry needling information go to www.gemtinfo.com.au or make an appointment to discuss the risks, benefits and evidence of this for your condition.
Call (03) 6234 5510 for an appointment.
Lucy Hodgson has joined the team at North Hobart Osteopathy for 2018.
Lucy has 13 years clinical experience as an Osteopath, from Melbourne, Australia. Having a strong family network of health care providers, Lucy works with a contemporary view and evidence informed practice.
Lucy’s young family have taken this great opportunity to move to Hobart. She aims to learn about a Osteopathic practice in a semi-rural setting, pain and pain management and discuss client centred rehabilitation principles. Lucy will also observe and consider Dry Needling and how it can be integrated into her clinical work in the future.
Working Wednesday’s 9:30 – 5pm and Friday mornings this year. If you are looking for a new, vibrant and experienced Osteopath on these days, Call (03) 6234-5510 to book an appointment with Lucy.
Is it time to move forward.
Let us help with planning your way forward to better health, living well with a complex individually tailored approach.
Are you ready to challenge some fixed beliefs that are holding you back. Are you living the same day/week/year over and over. Let us help you change. This will require a team base that focusses on what is important for you to start this new path.
Call 6234 5510 to arrange an appointment with Dr Pam Dennis (Osteopath) or Dr Lucy Hodgson (Osteopath).
Chronic Persistent Pelvic Pain.
Pamela attending a workshop delivered by Hobart ObsGyne at the RHH on the 24/2/18.
This information was aligned with the her studies in chronic persistent pain over the past few years and she was able to connect with Hobart’s like minded clinicians who are involved with team managing women and young women who have pelvic pain. Pamela can assist with the biomechanical, musculoskeletal and pain managment components of pelvic pain in these teams.
It is valuable for our clients to be in supportive health care group that are aligned in the contemporary knowledge working with the new paradigms like the BPS model. Osteopathy has used this approach for over 20 years described in Osteopathic texts, (Greenman, 2000). Osteopaths can help in this framework.
There are fabulous resources for women who have pelvic pain from conditions like painful periods, endometriosis and other sources of persistent pelvic pain. Working alongside your upskilled GP, Physiotherapists who work in Women’s health, Psychologists, Gynacologists, Pain Specialists, Incontence Nurses and other health care providers like Osteopaths who are trained and upskilled in contemporary pain management, women have more opportunities to ‘stop the silence’ of this area, pelvic pain.
If you are interested in more information contact the above practice, Pam Dennis, Osteopath Grad Cert in Pain and Pain management.
Or Contact: Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia Ltd: contact@pelvicpain.org.au
Resources are available:
Working in Allied health care for 30 years (areas prior to Osteopathy, aged care nursing 16 years, massage therapist and qualified veterinary nurse 5 years).
9 years of Dry Needling for sports medicine and complex myofascial muscle pain, advanced Level 3 GEMt.
Osteopath graduated in 1999 with 18 years experience in pain and pain management. Utilising a bio-psycho-social model of patient care, working collaboratively with the clients and other health professionals to design a patient centred and promotes self efficacy to your health managment.
Consultation by Appointment.
Contacts: (03) 6234 5510, or Mobile 0417 515 554.
Pamela completed her postgraduate Diploma in Pain and Pain Management with second class honors. Pam is also a clinical leader in a group with the Osteopathy Australia Association for Pain and Pain Management in persistent pain. This is an area of health care of significant importance with complex care needs and ageing poplulations in Australia. Come and make an appointment with Pam to discuss a plan for your health needs. (03) 6234 5510.
Capsaicin – is a hot peppery cream that is used in pain management. The initial burning feel of this topically applied cream may be off putting but with regular use 3-4 times a day for a month – 6 weeks could provide several months of relief from arthritis joint pain, neurological burning pain, post herpetic neuralgia type pain. The capsaicin molecules bind to the nerve receptors that transmits pain to the brain to be interpreted as pain. By blocking the receptors (which reverses over time) temporary relief may be achieved.
I have had a number of patients that have relief from the short term use of this cream which is available at chemists over the counter. Zostrix is a product available OTC but speak to your pharmacist.
It is important to read all warnings and instruction brochure that comes with this product and use with the help of a health practitioner’s advise.
