London Osteopath

One of the things I hear most: “it’s my knee.”

Sometimes it really is.

But a lot of the time, your knee is just the piggy in the middle

absorbing load that your hip or ankle isn’t managing properly.

So you can stretch, roll, and rest the knee all you want, and it keeps coming back, because the actual problem is somewhere else entirely.

This is the bit I spend most of my time on with patients — finding where the load is actually going wrong, not just treating where it hurts.

Someone came up to my stand last week with a shoulder problem.

Not new — he’s had niggles before that clear up in a week on their own.

This one had been sitting there for three weeks, not budging.

He’d asked AI what to do.

It told him to rest and do some exercises.

Didn’t work.

When I looked, I found the actual issue

his shoulder blade wasn’t moving properly when he lifted his arm on that side.

On the other side, it moved exactly like it should.

That one muscle has around 17 others attaching to it, so when it’s not moving, everything around it gets unhappy.

Trying to build strength on top of that without fixing the
mobility first just builds strength on top of a problem.

Mobility has to come before stability — always.

One of the most common questions we get is “what happens in a follow up appointment?”

Just 5-10 mins just really targeting hip work can have a huge amount of relief for your knee pain

showing us how it’s done.

Mid back discomfort bothering you?

Sometimes the root cause of the issue is actually the shoulder

We can help you figure out where the pain is coming from and then help you find ways to relieve it.

What causes back pain?

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