by Vanessa Fisher | Jan 27, 2019 | Babies and Children, Osteopathy Blog, Pregnancy
It is pretty common knowledge that pregnancy places the female body under huge stresses and change, but not many people will be familiar with a condition it can cause called abdominal separation or Diastasis Recti Abdominis or, in fact, that women outside of pregnancy...
by Vanessa Fisher | Jan 27, 2019 | Babies and Children, Osteopathy Blog, Pregnancy
I stumbled across an interesting article published back in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA). It talks about the use of osteopathic treatment, performed on hospitalised premature twins with breastfeeding...
by Vanessa Fisher | Jan 26, 2019 | Babies and Children
Positional Plagiocephaly, more commonly known as Flat Head Syndrome and Torticollis (neck stiffness on one side), have become more prevalent since campaigns (like the one introduced in Australia in 1991) started encouraging parents to position their children in a...
by Vanessa Fisher | Jan 22, 2019 | Babies and Children
I treat a lot of babies and children in the practice and a condition that I see from time to time is tongue tie, or ankyloglossia, to give it its medical name. Although the name tongue tie conjures up visions of a tongue which is wildly disfigured, this condition is...
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