The best Osteopath in London?

Three years ago I broke my shoulder and ended up with 14 three and a half inch bolts and two metal plates screwed into my bones.

Physiotherapy took 6-9 months and whilst most of my flexibility returned it has never been back to normal. This summer I did a lot of swimming and I noticed that from about July my shoulder was sore. It even hurt putting on my jacket.

On Friday of last week I travelled to Norwich and the upper limbs consultant who had operated on me. He is incredibly well respected with a nationwide reputation. One look at the xray and he confirmed that it clearly showed Avascular Necrosis... That means the blood has not been getting to the extremities of the bones during the healing process. The result is decay and that is what is causing the pain. 

The next step is to replace the shoulder and that final decision will be made in January. Apart from the shock of such news the prospects are grim.

Upon the recommendation of a friend, actually more of an insistence...I had my first encounter with a cranial osteopath.. Mr Lakhani lives and practices in Arnos Grove. Once u have got there by tube you still have to take a taxi.

The treatment was quite unlike anything I have known before. The skull and face massage was like being gently mugged hater a traffic accident. The flesh was scoured and rubbed. He is 95% blind so there was very little light.

After an hour and twenty minutes the transformation was almost unbelievable.. My left arm Rose to the ceiling in a way that it hadnt done for three years.

Bizarre, novel and completely unexpected....I would recommend this man to any one with a pain in the joints or in need of physiology therapy. Quite simply, he is a magician.

It sorted me out perfectly for my meeting with Julia Marozzi and Charlotte Metclaf and we had tea and champagne at Aspinalls before I rounded off the day taking my father to dinner at The Spencer Arms in Putney where we were looked after  Jolyon (Baba) Rebbeck ...