What are Osteopathy for Business services?
Our Osteopathy for Business services involve anything that seeks to promote and maintain the health and wellbeing of your workforce. At Hills Osteopaths we offer Osteopathy for Business under that umbrella and provide expert assessment and osteopathy treatment for those experiencing painful musculoskeletal conditions or injuries, plus other alternative healthcare treatments and services for businesses to help keep staff in working order.
We can deliver services either by attendance at our office in Old Castle Hill Road, Castle Hill, by telephone and/or remote video link - or on site by negotiation.
Why Choose Osteopathic Treatment over Occupational Therapy?
The principles of occupational therapy and osteopathy are quite different from one another:
- occupational therapy needs the healing to come from the motivated person him/herself but
- osteopathy assumes that the body is able to heal itself just after minimal interaction.
So on one hand healing can only be achieved when one works hard enough so as to be able to get healed, while the other one assumes that the person does not need much interaction so as to be able to heal itself ...
Generally speaking, at Hills Osteopaths we are more hands-on in the treatment of patients. We’ll seek to manually correct any imbalances in the musculoskeletal system ourself, where possible. Conversely, occupational and physiotherapists tend to do the opposite. Rather than correcting the issue themselves through manual medicines, it’s more common for them to prescribe an exercise regimen that the patient can use to alleviate the problems by their own efforts. This doesn’t make physiotherapy inherently worse, but it’s important to know what you’re getting for your money. One last thing to note is the fact that the hands-on approach that osteopaths take often yields faster results than the regimens prescribed by physiotherapists.