Cranial osteopathy
Cranial Osteopathy
Parents often consult our Paediatric (Cranial) Osteopaths following their baby’s birth. There might be a specific problem to assess or just an overall check up, to help give you peace of mind.
Your osteopath will carefully assess your baby for any stresses or strains causing them discomfort. Using a highly developed sense of touch and gentle technique, treatment is safe, gentle and effective. Our osteopaths work alongside local midwives, lactation consultants and tongue-tie practitioners to help find the right treatment for you and your baby.
“When a child isn’t fully themselves, parents know.”
Treatment of children is a specialist area of osteopathic practice. All our osteopaths have undertaken postgraduate training in Paediatric Osteopathy and continue to update our knowledge of paediatric practice as part of our ongoing professional development.
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Felicity Bertin
Felicity is best known locally and amongst the osteopathic profession for her work with mums and babies. She has undertaken extensive postgraduate training in paediatrics with a focus on tongue tie, infant feeding and plagiocephaly, in addition to teaching post-graduate osteopaths, midwives and health visitors about the effects of osteopathy on infants.
She has co-authored two books around weaning children and takes a special interest in cranial osteopathy and primary reflex integration, working closely with families and other healthcare professionals to support mothers and babies to achieve their goals.
She has undertaken extensive postgraduate training in areas including Mummy MOT, Scar Therapy and Diagnostic Ultrasound and continues to support families with a wide range of problems.
Antonietta D’Angelo
Since graduating as an osteopath, Antonietta has continued to add to her professional qualifications with further clinical courses and personal development. She has carried out training with Dr Antonio Stecco, developing her skills and experience in fascial manipulation and has also trained in visceral manipulation.
She has also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatrics at the British School of Osteopathy and trained at the Osteopathic Centre for Children.
She has also completed the Mummy MOT training, specialising in pelvic floor issues and post-partum rehabilitation. Antonietta studied at the Molinari institute of health to broaden her pregnancy and post-partum care knowledge in her role as a Women’s Health Osteopath.
We also offer osteopathy for adults.
Appointment times
Weekdays and weekends – by appointment.
Contact
To book or make further enquiries:
Mobile: 07970 807 625
Email: osteopathy@carmenta-life.co.uk
If you’re unsure whether osteopathy can help, please get in touch or book a ‘free assessment’.
Testimonials
The advice given by Felicity, along with the video exercises, were very helpful and effective. We noticed a huge difference in our son’s neck movement, which positively impacted his feeding, digestion and sleep. Thank you to Felicity for sharing her knowledge and expertise. We will miss our Osteopath appointments!
I can not recommend Felicity and Apple Tree Osteopaths enough. I was the ultimate skeptic as to whether these treatments were effective but when my 3mo was struggling and I was recommended to try osteopathy I was willing to try anything and only one name kept coming up in my research. Felicity really took the time to understand our specific situation and needs, she helped and guided us not only through the osteopathy sessions she was an invaluable resource to give advice on how to navigate NHS pathways I wasn’t even aware of. Under her care my baby has flourished beyond my expectations and I’ll forever be grateful to Felicity, Melissa and Apple Tree Osteopathy. Truly, thank you from us all.
Antonietta was wonderfully professional and extremely gentle working with our baby daughter. Her appointments have helped both her and myself overcome some difficulties after birth. I couldn’t recommend her enough.
I saw Antonietta initially for my baby son as I knew something wasn’t right. Antonietta advice and knowledge was amazing and showed me exactly what it was with him- he had slight favouring of right side. With the exercises this was corrected swiftly. I also saw Antonietta for mummy mot c section, she put me at ease and very much helped me with many different issues I was having that I just thought were “normal” again this was all dealt with or in process. I’ve recommended her to anyone who’s had a baby.