thefamilypractice is an Osteopathic and complementary health centre set up by the Hounsfield family in the heart of Bristol.
It successfully combines Osteopathy and Complementary Therapies to give the patient a wholly individual healthcare and treatment strategy. Please feel free to explore our site and learn a bit more about us and what we do...... Welcome.
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Our Bristol practice is made up of Osteopaths and Complementary Therapists
Osteopaths:
Nick Hounsfield Osteopath Bristol
Kate Burns Osteopath Bristol
Juliana Hounsfield Osteopath Bristol
Clare Ballard Osteopath Bristol
Wendy Hounsfield Osteopath Bristol
Jo Hooper Osteopath Bristol
Brian Hounsfield Osteopath Bristol
Gill Jones Osteopath Bristol
Tania Russell Osteopath Bristol
Dougal Cram Osteopath Bristol
Osteopathy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Osteopathy is an approach to healthcare that emphasizes the role of the musculoskeletal system in health and disease. It is practiced in the entire European Union, Israel, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Although 'osteopathy' and 'osteopathic medicine' are often used inter-changeably, some would use 'osteopathic medicine' to describe 'American Osteopathy', practiced by physicians, and use osteopathy to describe the restricted-scope form of practice in other jurisdictions.[1] Osteopathy or osteopathic medicine, has an international organisation, The World Osteopathic Health Organisation (WOHO)[2] that permits membership by both 'restricted scope manual therapist' osteopaths and American osteopathic physicians. Similarly, there is also an international organisation for statutory regulators, universities/medicals schools offering osteopathic education and professional osteopathic associations the Osteopathic International Alliance (OIA).[3] It is contestable that osteopathy/osteopathic medicine are two completely distinct professions; the regulatory framework determines scope of practice in a particular jurisdiction and that is subject to change. In the UK, Australia and New Zealand osteopaths have a 'physicianly' training, are regulated primary healthcare professionals and have never been subordinate to the medical opinion, diagnosing un-triaged patients and treating or referring on as indicated, unlike physiotherapists or nurses etc. Some of these practitioners use the honorific 'Dr'. The distinction between American osteopathic physicians and manual therapy osteopaths may be lessening, with decreased communication between different countries and concurrent evolution of scope of practice.
In most countries, osteopathy has been considered a form of complementary medicine, emphasizing a holistic approach and the skilled use of a range of manual and physical treatment interventions in the prevention and treatment of disease. In practice, this most commonly relates to musculoskeletal problems such as back and neck pain. Osteopathic principles teach that treatment of the musculoskeletal system (bones, muscles and joints) facilitates the recuperative powers of the body.