Blog: Questions I Get Asked
I don’t know much about osteopathy. Can you tell me about it? | Monday 30 July 2018 | |
What’s the difference between an osteopath, a chiropractor and a physiotherapist? | Wednesday 22 August 2018 | |
Is what you do "alternative" medicine? | I certainly hope so. I try very hard to be an alternative... | Forthcoming |
Is what you do "scientific"? | Yes.I'd argue that osteopathy more scientific than most of what happens in medicine. That's a big call, so I'd better be prepared to back it up... | Forthcoming |
Why doesn’t my doctor think about my medical problem the way you do? | Most doctors learned a lot of what they know in hospitals, and a lot more of it from people who spend a lot of their time there. That has given them an interesting way of thinking about health and disease... | Forthcoming |
Why don’t more people know about you? | There are a lot of reasons for that; and they are mostly our fault... | Forthcoming |
Do you know that you are doing? (Usually askded more politely: something like "how long have you been practicing?") | I've been doing this since 2002, after studying it full time for five, and I work hard to learn more all the time. But truthfully; I probably don't have a very good idea at all about what I'm doing at all. Let me explain... | Forthcoming |
You treat me really differently to the osteopath I used to see.Why is that? | It isn't just just that I treat you differently to another osteopath. I might treat you completely differently next visit. Let me explain... | Forthcoming |
Do you treat (fill in the type of patient)... | Yes. From the very young to the very old to the very challenged, I treat them. That doesn't mean I "fix" them. But osteopathy can be useful for a really wide range of people, because there are so many different techniques to choose from... | Forthcoming |
Do you treat (fill in the type of condition)... | No. And yes. Sort of. It's complicated... | Forthcoming |
More to come.... |  | |
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John Smartt Osteopath
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Focussing on helping people with challenging conditions; looking for the causes of ill health; thinking about the connections throughout the body;
freeing up constrictions that stop things working well; and working with the complexity of each individual.