What is paediatric osteopathy?
Osteopaths who have undertaken a further two year’s training and study, to specialise in treating babies and children, practise paediatric osteopathy. Just as a qualified doctor would train to be a paediatrician, ensuring a level of expertise appropriate to the patient, so those osteopaths who have undertaken this additional training are qualified to treat babies and children. On training and qualification, paediatric osteopaths receive their Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy (DPO). The treatment of babies and children inevitably needs to be very gentle, and paediatric osteopaths become expert in this, using manipulative techniques that are appropriate to small bodies. High-velocity thrusts, for example, sometimes necessary in adult work to realign the spine, are not used on babies and children.
