What is an Osteopath ?
Osteopaths use a variety of treatments to ensure the correct alignment of your back and muscles, easing muscle tension to restore your body's natural self healing abilities. Osteopathy eases pain, reduces swelling and improves mobility.

What do we do ?
We can treat:

• generalised aches and pains

• joint pains including hip and knee pain from osteoarthritis

• arthritic pain

• general, acute & chronic backache, back pain

• uncomplicated mechanical neck pain

• headache arising from the neck (cervicogenic) / migraine prevention

• frozen shoulder

• elbow pain/ tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) arising from associated musculoskeletal conditions of the back and neck

• circulatory problems

• cramp

• digestion problems

• joint pains

• lumbago

• sciatica

• muscle spasms

• neuralgia

• fibromyalgia

• inability to relax

• rheumatic pain

• minor sports injuries and tensions

Who we are ?
The Bognor Osteopathic & Sports Injury Clinic is a centre for the treatment and pain and sports injuries .

Principle Osteopath, Karen A. Smallcorn D.O, and Ben Gottesman BSc Hons. Ost. have been providing healing services since 1991 to patients from inside the West Sussex and Hampshire area as well as further a field.

What is the difference between an Osteopath and a Physiotherapist ?
Physiotherapists help where movement and function are threatened by the ageing process or subsequent to injury or disease.

Osteopaths treat the whole person not just the areas causing symptoms. This is because osteopaths believe the cause often originates in another part of the body.

Osteopathy is well know for its ability to help with aches and pains but is also able to help with a vast number of different conditions in people of all ages, from babies to the elderly.

What is the difference between an Osteopath and a Chiropractor?
The difference between osteopaths and chiropractors stem from a difference in philosophy. Osteopaths take blood circulation carefully into account when assessing patients.

Osteopaths treat muscles, ligaments, tendons and other organs by aiding the body's natural healing ability. Chiropractors focus on the spine and the alignment of vertebrae as the primary means of relieving pain.

Osteopaths also treat a broader range of problems such as disorders to the respiratory or digestive systems. Have a look at our Forms of Treatment page which details more of our treatments.