Care + Recovery For Your Whole Body.

OSTEOPATHy + ATHLETIC THERAPY

Are you currently suffering from pain, stiffness, and lack of mobility, joint and muscle aches, fatigue, headaches or post-concussion symptoms, weakness, menstrual distress, or digestive upset? Have you been to other types of treatments that are unsuccessful or reached a plateau in your current recovery?

 

Vancouver Osteopathic Manual Therapy

 

OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE THERAPY

Osteopathic manipulative treatment is a structural treatment using techniques that mobilise your joints and release restrictions in your fascia, muscles and ligaments. Osteopathic Practitioners use many gentle techniques and are a safe choice for all ages and stages – from newborns to the elderly. These techniques reduce pain, help with alignment and mobility and decompress blood vessels and nerves.

 

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

Osteopathic Practitioners have learned to palpate a craniosacral rhythmic motion of approximately eight to twelve cycles per minute. This movement is present throughout life and can be felt anywhere in the body. It is believed to be caused by the production and re-absorption of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and other fluids in the brain and spinal cord. Craniosacral therapy can have a profound calming effect on the nervous system.

 

VISCERAL MANIPULATION

There are basically two motions: mobility and motility. Mobility is an organ’s ability to move in response to the body in motion, such as during walking or in response to the movement of the diaphragm during respiration. Motility is an inherent motion of the organ and is a memory of the spiralling movements that occur during embryological development. Visceral Manipulation can improve organ function and digestion.

 

PREGNANCY & CHILDREN

Osteopathic treatment during pregnancy is safe and gentle. It can help dissipate the pain and discomfort of postural changes that occur in the second and third trimester with the increasing weight of your developing child.

Osteopathy can really help infants and children. Children are not nearly as resilient to injury as we think, and strains and structural tensions early in life become incorporated into the growing body. “As the twig is bent so it grows.”