Some aspects of treatment may feel like massage work, some may be reminiscent of gentle chiropractic adjustments, while other techniques work on a more subtle, deeper level like cranial osteopathic techniques. Treatment is highly individualized, making it difficult to describe. The main through line may be that good treatments should feel like the body is moved, stretched, softened, challenged or held, and given what it needs most in that moment.

Osteopaths help the body cope with the physical stressors of daily life and stimulate the body’s own healing mechanisms so you can recover from your injury quicker. Beyond initial recovery, it is a work of optimizing the body’s capacity for adaptation, increased mobility, strength and overall health. This is why a lot of people chose to have regular osteopathic treatment as a practice of self care to maintain well being.

People go to osteopaths for support with many aliments :

• Pain felt anywhere in the body, including injuries, chronic pain, headaches

• Neurological issues, like migraine, dizziness, restless leg syndrome, numbness, pins and needles, nerve pain

• Digestive issues like constipation, bloating, work around scar tissue from surgery

• Breathing issues like breathing dysfunctions, asthma, COPD (these last two are example of health conditions that cannot be “cured” by osteopathy, but osteopathic treatment can certainly help with labored breathing, by working on the diaphragm, ribs, and respiratory muscles). Breathing retraining can also be part of treatment

• The physical manifestations of grief, depression, anxiety: Tight chest, difficulty sleeping, digestive issues, etc