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Meet the Osteopaths
We are all professionally qualified practitioners who specialise in patient-centred care. We are all registered with the GOsC and members of the BOA.
These regulatory bodies maintain the highest standards in their professions.
Victoria Davies
Victoria Davies, MSc MDip BSc(Hons)Ost, graduated from the London School of Osteopathy in 2005 with a 2:i BSc (Hons) Ost. She has been working at East Barnwell since October 2005 and in July 2006 took the osteopathic practice over from Gaye Dixon.
The practice attracts a wide range of patients from all sectors of the community and has excellent parking and disabled access.
In May 2008, Victoria opened the Saturday clinic at the Cambridge Bodywork Pilates Centre in Cambridge. The centre offers a relaxing, peaceful environment, conveniently close to town. As well as pilates and yoga classes, there are also other therapies on offer. A website for the centre will be up and running soon.
Before training as an Osteopath, Victoria studied and worked in Biochemistry and she also has training in sports injury massage and rehabilitation. This background has enabled Victoria to emphasise the physiological aspects of treatment and tissue repair.
Victoria has a special interest in treating the symptoms of asthma and other breathing difficulties, since good ventilation ensures good oxygenation of the tissues, which is vital to healing – whether you have a running injury or back pain.
Other areas of interest include treating symptoms of migraines and treating babies and children.
Victoria prefers to use the more gentle osteopathic techniques, but these are no less effective in treating all sorts of complaints – in fact she has found that the more acutely painful or chronic a condition, the more gently it needs to be treated in many cases.
However, osteopaths have a wide range of techniques at their disposal that are chosen according to the age and general health of the patient, their symptoms, and how they are on the day of treatment.
All osteopaths have to take part in Continuing Professional Development, and in the near future Victoria plans to gain further training in cranial and animal osteopathy.
Stephen Goddard
Steven Goddard started his training as an Osteopath in 2000, graduating from The British College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2004.
He spent his first post-graduate year in Cardiff before moving to Cambridge in April 2006.
“Anyone who has experienced osteopathy will know that each osteopath has an individual approach to treatment, honed and developed through practise and experience.
During my time in practice I have found it helpful to consider the human body as a complex machine, which we tend to neglect until it shows signs of disrepair. Generally speaking, the more care we take of this machine, the better it performs and the longer it will function smoothly.
Pain is the symptom of dysfunction that generally drives people to seek advice from an osteopath. My approach is to treat these symptoms but also to analyse the cause of the problem and work with the patient towards preventing its occurrence.
We don't think twice about servicing our car every year, but will go for years without ever thinking about our own body which will of course breakdown eventually if never cared for."
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