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 Pam came into osteopathy after a previous career in health care. She worked as an ambulance paramedic until back injury led to her being medically retired. She was then able to take the opportunity go back to college and learn a more holistic way of caring for people.
Pam qualified from the British School of Osteopathy in 2000, and has worked in the UK and run her own practice in Greece. She was the only osteopath on the island where she lived for 5 years.
Pam has completed several postgraduate Cranial courses with the Sutherland Cranial College. She also uses Western style acupuncture in conjunction with her osteopathy.
She is currently studying a Biodynamic approach to Cranial Osteopathy, an approach which aims to help the patient from the basis of their health, and self healing properties.
Pam has always been interested in the mind - body connection alongside the more basic structural and mechanical. Osteopathy treats the body, and in doing so can have a profound effect on the mind and spirit too. She believes it is impossible to treat one part of a person without also affecting the other parts.
Over time the body can develop protective postures and patterns of movement; for example being weighed down, depressed, angry or afraid. This can lead to muscle tension, joint stiffness and restriction. Different parts of the body hold the emotion in different people.
It is also true that the body’s habitual posture can become so fixed that it contributes to maintaining the emotional state, therefore release of some of the musculo skeletal tension can lead to emotional easing and release, and clients often report these changes.
The bodywork she does combines cranial techniques, which work to enhance the body’s own self-healing capacity, allowing energy to flow, and also more structural methods including soft tissue massage and articulation techniques. This works on the joints, muscles, circulation, and nervous system; also affecting the digestive system and breathing.
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