What is Osteopathy?
How can it help you?
Osteopathic manual therapy is a whole-person approach to healthcare, working with the body, mind, and spirit of each individual. It focuses on the interrelationship between the body’s nerves, vessels, organs and musculoskeletal structures to help optimize its natural healing systems. Osteopathic manual therapy includes evaluation of lifestyle factors that play a role in your health, and hands-on treatment of your body’s structures to optimize your balanced function as a whole person.
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Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT)
During OMT, an osteopathic manual practitioner uses their hands to evaluate and treat the parts of a person to help them to work together as a whole. Through a gentle and relaxing treatment, the osteopathic manual practitioner moves the structures of your body using techniques that include stretching, resistance, and gentle pressure. OMT can be helpful for people of all ages. Some of the benefits that people experience are improved mobility, faster healing, decreased stress and tension, decreased pain, and better sleep. The goal of osteopathic treatment is to consider each person as a unique individual to optimize one’s health.
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Osteopathic manual practitioners may be able to help if you are experiencing problems such as:
Generalized aches and pains
Joint pains including hip and knee pain from osteoarthritis
Arthritic pain
General, acute, & chronic back pain and tension
Headaches & migraines
Frozen shoulder/ shoulder and elbow pain/ tennis elbow
Sleep or energy issues
Sports injuries
Repetitive strain injuries
Post-operative pain
Joint or muscle pain
Digestive problems
Women’s health concerns
Pregnancy-related pain
Pre- and postnatal discomfort
Jaw pain
Sciatica
Fibromyalgia
Muscle spasms & cramps
Minor sports injuries and tensions
Inability to relax
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Please Note: Osteopathic manual practitioners are not medically trained and do not diagnose medical conditions. Any information provided by an osteopathic practitioner is not intended to replace medical advice. Osteopathy is not a replacement for medical diagnosis and treatment.