Manual Osteopathic Therapy
- Is a hands-on, manual modality that can help facilitate healing for a wide range of conditions and relieve chronic health issues. It can help increase mobility and motion, reduce restrictions of movement and tension in joints, muscles and tissues, as well as help with postural imbalance and patterns, headaches, migraines, anxiety and depression, incontinence, constipation, energy and nervous system, respiratory and digestive conditions.
- Starts with a thorough health history and client centered approach to contribute to the most effective treatments.
- Facilitates the body’s natural healing mechanisms rather than focusing on symptoms or a single body part.
- Uses a range of manual techniques to affect the musculoskeletal, nervous, circulatory and lymphatic systems and overall health of the body.
- Specific Techniques: Osteoarticulations/Muscle Energy Techniques, Craniosacral, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Visceral (organs) Manipulation and Myofascial (soft tissue) Remodeling.
- Essential is the movement of fluids and the role of the nervous system in controlling the flow of fluids.
Manual Osteopathic Practitioners follow the Principles of Osteopathy
- Rather than independent systems and parts, the body functions as a single unit/entity.
- The body has an innate healing ability to defend, repair and regenerate itself.
- The body has self regulating, adaptive strategies that are always working to self stabilize and balance.
- Treating the body’s structure optimizes the function, they are reciprocally related. Structural dysfunction in the body can affect the body’s functioning and vice versa.
“Therapy itself is an art and reflects the ability of the practitioner to utilize the combined experience of (him/her/themself) and others in dealing with the intricate clinical problems which are complicated by such intangible elements as human personality, unusual environmental circumstances and many physical and psychic aspects which are, as yet, unknown to factual science.”
Parsons & Marcer, Osteopathy: Models for Diagnosis, Treatment and Practice
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