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    <post_id>69</post_id>
    <post_category_id>26</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Neck pain? Confused by the advice?]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Beyond addressing immediate discomfort, osteopathic treatment emphasizes the interconnectedness of the body's systems. By focusing on the relationship between structure and function, practitioners work to restore balance and facilitate the body's innate ability to heal itself. This holistic perspective ensures that care extends beyond symptom management, targeting the root causes of imbalance to support long-term health and mobility.]]></post_content_short>
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    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/neck-shoulder-pain/neck-pain-confused-by-the-advice/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2026-04-03 02:31:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>68</post_id>
    <post_category_id>26</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Persistent Headaches? Migraines? your osteopath can help]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Persistent headaches and migraines can significantly impact your quality of life, often stemming from complex interactions between muscular tension, spinal alignment, and nervous system function. Osteopathic care offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and treating these debilitating conditions by examining the underlying structural imbalances that may be contributing to your pain. Rather than simply masking symptoms, osteopathic practitioners assess how restrictions in the neck, shoulders, and cranial structures can create patterns of dysfunction that trigger headaches and migraines. Through gentle manual techniques and targeted treatment, osteopathy addresses the root causes of your pain, helping to restore proper function to the musculoskeletal system and reduce the frequency and intensity of headache episodes.]]></post_content_short>
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    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/neck-shoulder-pain/persistent-headaches-migraines-your-osteopath-can-help/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2026-03-30 09:57:00</post_date>
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  <posts>
    <post_id>16</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Neck Mobility Exercises for a Tight Neck]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Extremely useful and easy gentle neck mobility exercises to help restore normal neck movement following common complaints like ‘sleeping
wrong’ (facet sprains).  These exercises are easily performed while sitting at your work desk or even on your couch. Perform
approximately 20 reps in each direction shown (or more if you feel it is helping) will assist in]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/16/phone.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/headaches/neck-mobility-exercises-for-a-tight-neck/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2021-04-08 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>37</post_id>
    <post_category_id>15</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Wake Up With a Sore Neck? Here's How You Can Control It]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[I had a patient come in during the week and present with a sharp pain within the neck itself.The onset was that she woke up with it and
‘slept awkwardly’.  While unfavourable positioning of the neck during sleep may be a common trigger for general neck pain, this
may not always be the primary cause.In her]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/37/neck-pain.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/neck-shoulder-pain/wake-up-with-a-sore-neck-heres-how-you-can-control-it/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2017-05-02 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>39</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Have Tight shoulders & Headaches From the Computer? Let’s Fix That.]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Do You Spend a Lot of Time at The Computer?How about the tight shoulders, traps and headaches that come with it? Let’s fix it. I
	had a patient this week with pain running through the trapezius muscle – which goes from the shoulder up into the neck. She spends a lot of
	time at the computer with
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    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/39/computer.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/headaches/have-tight-shoulders-headaches-from-the-computer-lets-fix-that/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2017-04-18 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>45</post_id>
    <post_category_id>17</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[The Osteoworks Difference]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[“A single part of your body doesn’t fail on its own…” Dr John WhiteOsteoworks When people have pain, they don’t realise that something
can’t fail on its own. For you to have a failed tissue, a muscle soreness or a ligament strain – something else has let that
happen.  For that to have happened, there has to]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/45/connecting.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/osteoworks/the-osteoworks-difference/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2017-03-07 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>51</post_id>
    <post_category_id>15</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Pectoral Minor Stretch & Posture Recharge]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Here’s a Pectoral Minor Stretch that will instantly improve your posture. Building on last week’s desk posture exercise, this pec-minor stretch will further enhance your posture, by helping open your upper-thoracic spine.  By maintaining your pec-minor, not only will this help posture – but will also help prevent shoulder injury. Inquire About Cost and AvailabilityClick]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/51/posture6.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/neck-shoulder-pain/pectoral-minor-stretch-posture-recharge/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2016-10-18 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>50</post_id>
    <post_category_id>15</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Shoulders Rolled Forward? Here's How to Set Them Back]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[A lot of our patients come in with asking how they can train themselves to have better posture.  Here’s an easy exercise using a
thera-band that you can do a few times a day in order to help open up your shoulders. Talk to a Osteopath]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/50/shoulders.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/neck-shoulder-pain/shoulders-rolled-forward-heres-how-to-set-them-back/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2016-10-18 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>65</post_id>
    <post_category_id>7</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Tech Neck | How Looking Down at Our Phone Makes Our Head Over 6 Times Heavier]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[23 Days a Year is Spent Looking at Our Phones “Looking down at our phone can add anywhere between 8-23kg to the existing average head weight
of 5.5kg.”Kenneth Hansraj Chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitative Medicine Phones Don’t Have to be a Pain
in The Neck1View all screens at eye-level. Raise]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/media/website_posts/65/phone.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.osteoworks.com.au/tips-and-advice/flexibility/tech-neck-how-looking-down-at-our-phone-makes-our-head-over-6-times-heavier/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2015-09-25 00:00:00</post_date>
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