City Osteopaths

07/12/2025

Sometimes it’s just great to get offsite, to connect, relax and plan 2026!✅

So we all went to Space which is a fantastic location at the top of Mount Victoria, looking out over Evans Bay in Wellington Harbour ☀️

City Osteopaths will be moving into a brand new beautiful clinic at the top of Woodward Street at the end of January, so we’re currently planning the new gym and more! 😃💕

if you have a sore back, achey neck, headaches of any kind, can’t function or exercise as you’d like to, come see one of our incredibly effective team of Reg Osteopaths, Reg Naturopath, Nutritionist, Reg massage therapists, psychotherapist, homeopath, life coach and hyperbaric chamber! 👍🏻

We now have 528 Google reviews with a 4.9 out of 5 average.
Best to get your treatment bookings now before Christmas so you can be sure to feel great for the big day!🎄🎁🌟

Www.cityosteopaths.co.nz for more information and to book.

03/12/2025

Your body is far more extraordinary than you realise.

Inside you are 72 kilometers of nerves—a built-in communication network so advanced it can send signals faster than a race car.
If every nerve fiber were stretched out in a single line, they’d run for 45 miles, connecting every corner of your body in milliseconds.

Your longest nerve, the sciatic nerve, can grow more than 1 meter (3 feet) long, running from your lower spine all the way to your foot like a biological highway.

At the core of this system is the central nervous system—your brain and spinal cord.
The spinal cord alone is 45 cm (18 inches) of pure command center, carrying every thought, reflex, and sensation you experience.

And that’s only one part of the machine.

Your body’s blood vessels—arteries, veins, and capillaries—are even more mind-blowing. If you laid them end to end, they would stretch over 95,000 kilometers (59,000 miles).

That’s enough to wrap around the Earth more than twice.

Holding everything together is your skeleton—206 bones that protect your organs, produce your blood cells, and form the structural framework that lets you move, run, carry, and live.

When you step back and look at it all, one thing becomes clear:

Your body isn’t just alive—
it’s an engineering masterpiece, running thousands of systems in perfect harmony every second.

Osteopaths learn all about this incredible machine over many years of study at medical university and how to help it run optimally. We help you recover from injury, life events, and feel your best.

01/12/2025

Recent five star Google review for Tory🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
‘I have been to City Osteopaths and seen Tory for the past month for a shoulder injury.
After just one appointment I left feeling like I had the right exercises and support to heal quickly and to feel relief from the pain I was in.
The follow up emails detailing the treatment plan and provide other guidance post each appointment was also great to receive.
I would highly recommend Tory and City Osteopaths.’

Thank you Laura! We really appreciate you taking the time to let others know about our wonderful Osteopath Dr Tory Piperno.

25/11/2025

👋🏻City Osteopaths was established on the Terrace in Wellington in 1992, with two treatment rooms, then moved to 155 Featherston Street in 1995 with four treatment rooms. Then in 1998 our director Dr Melanie Young Registered Osteopath, joined the practice and acupuncture, homeopathy and massage therapy were added.

In 2002 our landlord Robert Jones, was renovating the whole building, so we moved to our current clinic space at 166 Featherston Street - opening windows in each room and a large reception space! ✔️

Early on we had seven treatment rooms and three spare rooms that we rented out to a barrister. The barrister didn’t pay their rent so we decided we had better expand and become a 10 treatment room clinic!😃

So, for the past 24 years we have been happily growing and treating thousands of people each year, helping people of all ages out of pain and back to Health 🥰

Now after 25 years, the landlord is wanting our floor back, so in late January 2026, we will be moving to new premises at the top of Woodward Street, at Level four, 93 The Terrace. We will have 10 large treatment rooms and a small gym! 👏🏻🤗

City Osteopaths proudly has over 522 Google reviews with a 4.9/5 average- our patients refer friends, family and colleagues to us as they trust what we do. We provide a consistently high level of care, listening, skilled treatment and individualised recovery plan to help our patients feel good again quickly 🤗💕

For more information see: www.cityosteopaths.co.nz

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16/11/2025

Did you know we are open on Saturdays?🤔
Here to help you with painful joints, headaches, injury recovery and rehabilitation 🤗✔️
We have Reg Osteopaths Dr Tory Piperno and Dr Francesca Evans plus awesome massage therapist Nikki working on Saturdays 🌟
So stop putting up with pain that’s reducing the quality of your life and start to feel much better!😃💕
For more information including checking out our over 500 five star Google reviews and to book online:
Www.cityosteopaths.co.nz

09/11/2025

Is your little one 👶 struggling with feeding, tummy discomfort, sleeping or moving symmetrically? 🤔

Then a check up with a skilled paediatric Osteopath such as Venla Karki is a very good plan.

For more information and to book: https://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/osteopathy-babies-and-children/

09/11/2025

City Osteopaths Director (and Registered Osteopath for the past 28 years) Dr Melanie Young, talking about what causes and contributes to bunions and what you can do to fix your own bunions without surgery! 🤗

She emphasises the importance of looking after your feet 🦶🏻 to avoid the risk of balance issues and falls, particularly as you age.

If you are having any trouble with your feet, come and see one of our excellent Osteopaths they are solving lots of long standing foot problems for Wellingtonians! ✔️👍🏻

Here is the link to the bunion self treatment video: https://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/blog/post/112871/how-to-self-treat-your-bunion/ 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

04/11/2025

How do Osteopaths see your body? When you come to see an Osteopath, we listen carefully and take a thorough medical history. We figure out what is going on by assessing your whole body and considering you as a unique person in the context of your life so far. Research shows that this is very important to help people recover and we find that we get great results.

In this video, Registered Osteopath Dr Melanie Young is explaining about the red and blue markings on a mini skeleton and how it is showing the origin and insertion of each muscle in the body.

She talks about why rib injuries can be particularly painful due to the blood supply, drainage and nerve supply getting closely constricted between intercostal muscle layers when you have an injury in this area.

If you’re having trouble moving fully or getting into the exercise routine that you want to be able to do or you’ve had a recent injury, come and see an Osteopath.

At City Osteopaths our osteopathic team have over 500 wonderful Google reviews with a 4.9 out of 5 average rating! Our patients are really happy with our work and the results we achieve to help them live a more enjoyable life. We love helping people out of pain and back to Health.
Www.cityosteopaths.co.nz for more information and to book.

31/10/2025

Is your body sore and not working well?😔
Would you like to be able to move more freely with less pain?🤔
Come see our highly skilled, always five star Google reviewed, Registered Osteopath Francesca Evans! 😃

For more information and to book:
https://www.cityosteopaths.co.nz/francesca-evans/

30/10/2025

If you’re looking for a good walk to do, the eastern suburbs walkway which runs from Tarakena Bay to the Pass of Branda in Seatoun, takes about an hour and is well worth doing ☀️

You can see our beloved pooch Ruby is enjoying herself🐶💕

If you are having trouble with your walking or balance, come and see our wonderful registered Osteopaths who can help you get moving pain-free and safely again 🤗✔️

27/10/2025

Brand new article by our Dr Francesca Evans Registered Osteopath :

Sinus infections and upper respiratory infections are a common but often underestimated cause of facial pain and headaches. When the sinuses become inflamed, either due to a viral, bacterial, or even

25/10/2025

Representing City Osteopaths today: Registered Osteopaths Dr Melanie Young, Sebastian Tucker and Venla Karki 🤗👍🏻

Melanie saw a number of young babies this morning at the Osteopathic Children Foundation, they had issues with their birth, feeding, neck turning, burping, and latching 👶

We have parental permission to share this cute photo of a baby being treated by Venla in a ‘double hander’ - osteopaths working together to help the health of children who normally wouldn’t be able to access our care due to no government funding 😔

So many of the struggles new babies and parents experience can be alleviated gently, safely and quickly with Osteopathic hands-on treatment approaches such as Osteopathy in the cranial field, balanced membrane tension and biodynamic osteopathy.🥰

A number of the parents today expressed the wish that Osteopathic assessment and treatment of babies was part of the Well Child check in New Zealand. We couldn’t agree more! ✅