Christchurch Osteopathic
& Sports Injury Clinic
Traditional Osteopathy - Modern Sports Electrotherapy - Medical Acupuncture

Welcome to the practice.

All of us, at some time in our lives, will suffer a pain that is either too much in the short term or that we just can't seem to get rid of in the long term.

In these cases, we need expert assistance to get back on track again and therefore many of us choose to visit our Osteopath to get the problem dealt with professionally.

Osteopathy: filling the gap between medicine and surgery

Osteopaths, like doctors, are professionally regulated by law and it is illegal in the UK to call yourself an Osteopath unless registered under the Osteopaths Act (1993).

For those who aren't sure, Osteopaths are specialists in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders associated with bone, joint, ligament, muscle, tendon, nerve, blood vessel, viscera and any of the other connective tissues that compose the human body from head to toe and deep inside.

More specifically, Osteopaths look for the structural and functional causes of musculo-skeletal pain which, by their nature, don't respond so well to drugs and are not yet so irreversible that surgery is the option of choice. On finding and diagnosing these problems, Osteopaths then aim to treat these causes using many of the comprehensive range of osteopathic manipulative techniques that we have been trained in, whether they be the gentler soft-tissue massage techniques or the more direct manipulative ones. In each and every case, you as the osteopathic patient have the final say as to which techniques you prefer to receive.

Can we have osteopathic and medical treatments simultaneously? In the vast majority of cases, yes.

New to Osteopathy?

Osteopath, doctor, chiropractor or physiotherapist, we're all here to help.

Osteopaths tend to use a combined multi-technique approach so if you want to receive only joint manipulations, or only exercises and electrotherapy techniques, you might find that perhaps osteopathy is not for you.

If you have seen a chiropractor before, you will most likely find that our manipulations are gentler and that we use more soft-tissue techniques such as massage and stretch. If you have seen a physiotherapist before, you will probably notice that our soft-tissue techniques are also gentler and that some of us are trained to use laser, ultrasound and interferential electrotherapy too.

Christchurch Osteopathic & Sports Injury Clinic

The main clinic itself is run by Marc DD Jones, Registered Osteopath, and is conveniently situated in the heart of the scenic harbour and Priory town of Christchurch, Dorset.

Mr Jones is able to offer appointments at the following locations:

Treatments available include traditional osteopathy and electrotherapies such as laser, ultrasound, interferential and infra-red heat (some depending on which clinic you visit).

Medical acupuncture, which is based on the sciences of human physiology and neurology rather than the philosophies of Chinese acupuncture, is also available. Mr Jones is trained in the safe use and application of medical acupuncture (or 'dry needling'), which is a clinical course available to medically-trained professionals such as osteopaths.

Appointments are generally available within 24 hours. If we can help, we will.