Nedlands Osteopathy & Acupuncture

About Nedlands Osteopathy & Acupuncture

The combination of Osteopathy and Acupuncture is an extremely successful combination for not only musculoskeletal conditions but covers a wide variety of body systems. This clinic is run as a family business from a long line of health care professionals. At Nedlands Osteopathy & Acupuncture, we bring more than 40 years of combined clinical experience to the public.

Nutrition
“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food” – Hippocrates

Nutrition is the most powerfully effective and underrated form of medicine on this planet. What you eat will directly affect your thoughts, emotion, immune system and general well-being. Your nutritional status is directly reflected in every cell of your body, and in turn it will directly affect your overall health and emotional status.I have never met a patient who could not benefit in some way from nutritional medicine.

Osteopathy
The underlying premise of Osteopathy is that the body functions as a whole unit – so all the individual components of the body need to function to their full capacity in order for the whole body to function optimally.

Acupuncture
Many people ask me what is acupuncture for and what can it treat? The simple answer is acupuncture is for the treatment of people, and people have many different conditions.

Dr Benjamin O’Brien
Benjamin O’Brien comes from a long line of practitioner’s of both western and natural medicine.

Ben completed a double degree in both acupuncture and nutritional medicine and is also qualified in both An Mo Tui Na (Chinese massage) and western Remedial massage. Part of Ben’s acupuncture training involved completing an internship in China at Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University in Nanning, Guangxi.

Ben has personal experience in the healing capacity of acupuncture and continues to be inspired by what Chinese medicine offers to millions of people around the world. Ben’s other great passion involves using food as medicine for the incredible health benefits seen in both the short and long term for his patients and himself when the correct foods are regularly consumed.

Ben is currently still studying at RMIT where he is completing a master’s degree in Chinese Herbal Medicine. He strongly believes in the vast healing power of plant medicine and the lack of side effects often seen with the use of many modern western pharmaceutical medications.