Andrea Rippe

About Andrea

Andrea has been practising osteopathy for nearly 15 years. She uses a variety of tools to get results for her patients from spinal manipulation and soft tissue massage for aches, sprains and strains to dry needling and trigger point acupuncture for long-term knots and stiffness, as well as prescribing exercises to help condition, strengthen or lengthen targeted muscles.

She also uses the cranial osteopathy model to help her treat areas of the body that require much lighter touch, such as head, neck or face pain; and conditions that are not amenable to robust interventions, such as post-surgical pain, symptoms that occur after traumas such as road traffic accidents or concussion; or people for whom more invasive treatments are not appropriate such as some hypermobile patients, babies or small children.

Andrea’s primary tools in osteopathy are her love of the diagnostic process, followed by her hands, her love of people, and her extensive experience in selecting the best combination of her skills, and those of her colleagues, for each individual patient.

Andrea has many years’ experience treating expectant mums with pelvic girdle pain, back pain and post-partum pain. She has been listed for several years on the Pelvic Partnership website.

With many years’ experience working with babies and children and a long-time clinic tutor in University College of Osteopathy’s (UCO) children’s clinics, Andrea was a founder of the post-graduate diploma in paediatric osteopathy at UCO. Andrea has had a lifelong interest in providing the best possible care for babies, children and their families and in 2007 gained an MSc Paediatric Osteopathy at the Osteopathic Centre for Children. In the past few years, she has lobbied her profession to set up an accreditation process for osteopaths who wish to treat babies and children with complicated presentations.