Ben Raikes
Hi, my name is Ben, and I use osteopathy to treat people with pain and dysfunction. I have been treating the people of Brighton and surrounding areas since 2001.
Most of my patients come to me in pain. Most people have back, or neck pain, and many have shoulder and hip pain. They cannot sit, stand, walk or compete in their sports. Treatment aims to relieve and eventually eliminate all pain, enabling people to return to normal activities.
Another group come to me for what I call maintenance treatment. These people are not in pain and want to keep it that way. They usually initially came to me in pain and now have monthly treatments to keep joints mobile, muscles loose, and exercises checked.
Most of the time, I use osteopathy to treat joint and muscle pain. However, pain has many presentations and causes, and as a registered osteopath, I am qualified to diagnose, treat and give advice for muscle and joint pain. Osteopathic qualification and regulation work in much the same way as the regulation of medical doctors, and that means you can be safe in the knowledge that a registered osteopath (see below) is, first of all, a safe clinician.
I also treat many sports people to help them get back to their sports after injury or achieve better results from exercise and stretching. Doctor Google can be beneficial and misleading, and I often find myself correcting advice people have found online.
In my practice, I treat patients ranging in age from 5 years old to patients well into their 90s.
Osteopathy is a hands-on medical system based on the sciences of anatomy and physiology.
Osteopathic techniques vary from massage to manipulations and range from very gentle to quite vigorous. Patients receive a diagnosis, hands-on treatment, and advice on improving their condition through exercise and diet in every osteopathic treatment session.
Osteopathy is regulated by a statute of Parliament, and registered Osteopaths train full-time for four years at university level to gain a BSc in Osteopathic Medicine. Our regulatory body is the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC).
Ben works at Natural Balance Therapies from 3 pm to 8 pm on Tuesdays.
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