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Osteopathy

Our expert osteopaths provide tailored, hands-on treatment to relieve pain, restore movement, and get you back to doing what you love.

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Expert Treatment for Pain & Injury

At Cardiff Pain & Performance, our osteopaths are trained as primary healthcare practitioners, experienced in diagnosing and treating a wide range of musculoskeletal problems.

From low back pain to headaches, we use a combination of manual therapy, movement, and a deep understanding of how pain works to help you get back to doing what you love as quickly as possible.

We Start by Understanding Why You Have Pain

We first have to recognise why you have the issue you do. This means, do you have a structural complaint such as:

  • Disc Prolapse
  • Degeneration
  • Ligament Tear or Strain

If your issue is structural, we’ll diagnose the problem and guide you through a recovery plan to help it heal.

Most injuries recover within six months, but if pain continues beyond that, it’s often due to the nervous system still signalling pain as a form of protection. This is known as chronic pain, and it requires a deeper approach to resolve.

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What does an Osteopath Do?

Osteopathy is a system of hands on care to help the body to get back to health and wellness. A non invasive and drug-free approach, it uses subtle mobilisations and manipulations of the body to calm down the nervous system, relax joints and muscles, all in order to reduce pain and improve overall health.

Our Osteopaths are also trained in P-DTR and Dry Needling Acupuncture.

We are Europe’s leading Clinic in the P-DTR Method, which is a unique approach to resolving chronic pain. This gentle, non invasive and pain free approach allows us to find areas of the body that the Brain is seeing as “threatening” and as a result, increasing Pain signals to the body.

We are then able to reset the link between body and brain to prevent these signals from being sent.

This unique approach, along with our commitment to results, is what has earned Cardiff Pain & Performance its strong local reputation and 5-star reviews.

Common Conditions Treated

From acute muscle strains and disc injuries to sciatica, chronic pain and arthritis, we take time to identify the root cause of your back pain.

Back pain can sometimes appear “for no reason,” but it’s often compensating for an issue elsewhere in the body.

We take a holistic view to find and treat the real source of your discomfort.

Neck pain can result from structural issues such as disc problems, ligament strain or degeneration.

If these injuries have healed but pain remains, the nervous system may still be overreacting. We work to calm this response and restore normal movement and function.

Headaches can stem from neck tension, eye strain, or balance issues.

Using advanced RightEye® technology, we can assess how your eyes and neck interact and uncover hidden causes, often linked to old injuries such as whiplash or concussion.

Sciatica occurs when the sciatic nerve is irritated, causing pain, tingling or numbness down the leg.

We use a range of approaches including Thor Red Light Laser therapy, gentle manual techniques and neurological treatment  to reduce irritation and support the body’s healing process.

Osteopathic Techniques & Treatment Plans

We use a variety of hands-on techniques to help you out of pain and back to full movement. These include gentle joint mobilisations, soft tissue release, and manipulation to improve blood flow, relax muscles and reset the nervous system.

No two patients are treated the same. Every treatment plan is tailored to your individual needs, built from a detailed assessment that includes movement testing, your medical history, and, where needed, advanced tools such as our Force Plate and RightEye® technology.

Our evidence-based approach and focus on lasting results have helped thousands of people return to pain-free, active lives.

Meet Our Team

Gareth Cox

Co-Owner and Osteopath M.Ost P-DTR CFMP

Gareth graduated with a Masters degree in Osteopathy in 2014, and quickly went on to develop his skill set by learning from the worlds best movement and neurology experts.

As a previous high level badminton player, Gareth enjoys keeping an active lifestyle and helping educate people about health and wellness to maintain a pain-free life.

Gareth is also a Functional Medicine Practitioner, helping patients solve complex health issues through bespoke nutrition and lifestyle plans.

He lectures in the P-DTR method around Europe and the UK alongside Clinical work.

  • M.Ost Osteopathy
  • CFMP - Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner
  • Diploma Medical Acupuncture
  • Diploma Classical Osteopathy
  • Anatomy in Motion® Practitioner
  • P-DTR® Practitioner / Teacher

Luke Smith

Associate Osteopath

Luke received a Masters in Osteopathy (M.Ost) from Swansea University. He aims to identify the root cause of pain, giving hands on treatment alongside lifestyle advice and education. Throughout his sporting career he participated in a variety of sports at high levels and experienced a range of injuries which he has been treated for by a osteopath and has been amazed by the results of treatment. Luke’s own experience as a keen sportsman informs his approach to treatment, rehabilitation and health and wellbeing advice.

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Luke Smith

Associate Osteopath

Luke received a Masters in Osteopathy (M.Ost) from Swansea University. He aims to identify the root cause of pain, giving hands on treatment alongside lifestyle advice and education. Throughout his sporting career he participated in a variety of sports at high levels and experienced a range of injuries which he has been treated for by a osteopath and has been amazed by the results of treatment. Luke’s own experience as a keen sportsman informs his approach to treatment, rehabilitation and health and wellbeing advice.

Benefits of Our Care

  • Improved Joint and Muscle Health
  • Enhanced Range of Motion
  • Improved Posture
  • Drug-Free Pain Relief
  • Improved Quality of Life
  • The Ability to do What you Love
  • An Understanding of your own Body
  • Reduced Risk of Future Injury

Our Holistic Approach

We are trained to look at the body as a whole unit, not a collection of individual areas such as the Neck or Back. We recognise that an issue (past or present) in one area, will often lead to compensations in another over time.

This is when patients are told that nothing is wrong. The scans are normal and there is no reason for the pain they feel.

In these cases, a complex web of compensations has often built up over time, where the back is trying to help the hip, but the hip is adjusting to compensate for the old ankle injury you suffered.

By taking the time to understand your past medical and injury history, we are able to build a story of your individual case, to understand why you have come to be where you are, and then put a roadmap in place to help you get back to 100%

How to Prepare For Your Visit

New patients should fill in the online intake form prior to their visit to the clinic. This will be seen in the confirmation email and text you will receive. This gives us a headstart to understand your case, and saves us asking too many questions at your consultation, which frees up time to help understand your issue.

We recommend wearing comfortable, flexible clothing such as sportswear.

We first will sit down and discuss your complaint before starting our examination.

We look at the way you stand and move, before feeling your muscles and joints. We then test you on our Right Eye and Force Plate Technology to look for any hidden reasons to why you have the issue you do.

Once understood, we can sit down and discuss the root cause of your issue and lay out a roadmap and treatment plan to help you get better.

If all is okay, we begin treatment on the first session and leave you with information resources and access to our members portal.

We pride ourselves on offering our patients a bespoke patient portal. This allows new patients to lifetime access to lifestyle and health advice, rehabilitation exercises and more.

FAQs

Our Osteopaths work to assess you as whole person, considering your medical and injury history to figure out WHY your pain has not gone away.

We then specialise in using Neurological techniques to de-sensitise the Nervous System. 

We treat and help a range of conditions from Back & Neck Pain, Headaches, Sciatica, Joint pain, muscle pain, sports injuries and more.

Our chiropractors and osteopaths work in the same way, using our unique 5 step process to get you back to pain free as fast as possible. Unlike conventional chiropractors and osteopaths, we rely less on Manipulation and Massage to help your Pain.

We are experts in helping understand the source of your Sciatica, which can be due to a multitude of reasons. We then build you an individualised treatment plan based on your unique history. The aim is to eventually build up the strength in the area to prevent reoccurrence.

Back Pain is what we do! As primary healthcare professionals we are trained to diagnose and treat a range of musculoskeletal issues, and back pain is the most common. Very often though, the Back is not necessarily the “bad” guy. Instead it is common that the muscles around the Back are tightening to protect you, and compensate for a past injury elsewhere. Our job is to identify where the real problem is, and fix it.

We ask patients to wear loose comfortable clothing such as active or sports wear to the Clinic. You will not be required to undress, but we will need to move you around, so loose clothing is preferable.

Yes. Most Sports Injuries are an over use based injury, such as a Tendonitis. This means that there is something mechanical going wrong, and one area is being overused, versus an area being underused. The key is to figure out, where did this begin? The story to your injury likely started a long time before you felt any pain.. Taking an in depth injury history will help us isolate the source of your complaint.

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