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Welcome!
Simon Clement, Osteopath
"For over twenty years we've offered comprehensive osteopathic treatment for a wide range of joint and muscle symptoms.
Patients on the Mornington Peninsula are assured of professional treatment from our qualified and caring osteopaths. Have a look around the site and learn a little about us, the practice and osteopathy and please get in contact if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you."
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As from 2010 we are delighted to be able to announce that Mornington Osteopathy will be consulting on Mondays and Thursdays at The Sports Injury Clinic in Frankston at 361 Nepean Highway.
TSIC has a well deserved reputation as the place to go for manual therapy treatment in Frankston and will offer our patients access to much better facilities. We will have access to specialist medical practitioners, gym classes and with over 1,000 patients a week passing through the doors we also feel it’s a great way to provide osteopathic treatment to a ever wider range of people.
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Mornington Osteopathy
1/340 Main Street
Mornington 3931
t: 0359758782Frankston
361 Nepean Highway
Frankston 3199
t: 03 9783 9990
No quick fix…
Vertebroplasty, as it’s known, is a procedure that involves an X-ray guided needle insertion into the bone fracture followed by the injection of medical grade cement with the aim being to stabilise the fracture and help the spine heal more quickly with less pain.
The treatment is regularly recommended by doctors and specialists around the world with more than 600 Australians undergoing the procedure every year. Previously scientifically weaker studies led to an interim listing on the Medicare Benefits Scheme.
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder of the Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital who led the study, published the results in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in August. In the same edition, the results were published of a study by an independent research team at the Mayo Clinic in the US which also found the procedure inadequate.
“Our results indicate that there are no benefits of vertebroplasty over six months, but there are some potential risks. These include infection and leakage of bone cement outside of the broken vertebrae,” said Professor Buchbinder.
She believes those risks should not be ignored. “The cement is a permanent medical implant. The procedure might also increase the already high risk of having more spinal fractures, particularly in vertebrae adjacent to the treated area.” Based on these results, Professor Buchbinder also said “I don’t think there is any place for vertebroplasty in routine care.”