Osteopathy - Just For Children

 

Hilary Percival & Robin Percival  

Osteopathy - Just for Children was born out of a wish to provide your babies and children with their bodies functioning at their own optimum. Bodies functioning like this may make for happier and healthier children following into adulthood.

 

Hilary wishes that all children could be screened by pædiatric osteopath at birth. Alas there are not enough of us yet! However, so that children don't have to carry their birth strains with them into adulthood, Hilary and her team offers a free check up after birth and before six months of age. About 30% of children and babies receive treatment. We also take this opportunity to check out the mother - it really saddens me when a mother has ached in the lower back since little Joey was born.

 

When osteopaths examine babies, areas of tension are often found in the spine or head which are indications that the baby or child is uncomfortable. A baby may express their discomfort by crying and being unsettled or irritable. In a research study conducted by Clive Hayden into the effects of cranial osteopathic treatment on babies, some parents perceived the following changes in their childs behaviour, reduced colicky crying, improved sleep, less unsettled irritable behaviour and increased quiet happy spells.Hilary set up Saturday morning clinics for children once a month to allow children of school age to come from further a field (Glossop, the Fylde etc.).