What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a healthcare practice using a patient-centered approach that focuses on the patient’s health rather than disease. Osteopaths use manual palpation to identify and evaluate movement in all structural and functional aspects of the patient, identifying alterations of function and movement that impede health. A manual treatment plan is then determined, and interventions are performed with the goal of reducing these alterations and assisting in healing and pain relief.
Why Choose Osteopathy?
Osteopathic manual practitioners assess and treat your body as a whole; seeking to identify areas of dysfunction. The theory being that abnormal functioning (dysfunction) in one area of the body can cause symptoms to present elsewhere. Using a wide variety of hands-on (manual) techniques the osteopathic manual practitioner eases these restrictions to allow normal functioning to resume. Osteopathic clients include newborns to the elderly, athletes and weekend warriors, adults and children, manual workers and office professionals. Osteopathic manual practitioners treat a wide variety of complaints, including but not limited to:
- Acute and chronic pain
- Spinal, pelvic and joint pain
- Muscle/soft tissue pain
- Breathing difficulties
- Digestive and pelvic health problems
- Headaches and TMJ dysfunctions
- Sport injuries
- Head injuries such as concussions
- Pregnancy and postpartum pain