What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a drug-free holistic whole body approach to healing. Osteopathy was founded in the late 1800s by physician, surgeon and Osteopath Andrew Taylor Still in Kirksville, Missouri. Osteopathy views the body as a whole, not as segments or individual parts. Osteopathy is a manual form of therapy that recognizes the relationship between structure and function of the human body to achieve overall homeostasis and well-being. The Osteopathic approach is that the body has the ability to self-heal and self-regulate, and your Osteopathic Manual Practitioner helps to guide your body to heal using non-invasive manual therapy. It takes the best approaches from various other modalities to provide a full body healing approach utilizing muscle energy techniques, soft tissue techniques, stretching and strengthening exercises, as well as breathing, joint mobilizations and many others. 

Now taking appointments at The Regent Health Centre, 150 Locke Street S. Hamilton and www.stgeorgewellness.ca in St. George, Brant. 

What should you expect on your first appointment?
The initial consultation is to find out about you, Osteopathy is a patient-centered form of health care and this first appointment your Manual Osteopath will go through a comprehensive health history and questionnaire to help find the root cause or contributing factors to your pain or area of concern. 

Next, you will go through a comprehensive hands-on examination which will include a series of tests and assessments including joint range-of-motions, manual muscle testing and movement mechanics, among others, to help assess your posture and mobility.

Once the initial examination and tests are complete, the treatment may include several Osteopathic Manual Techniques, which can include muscle energy, joint mobilization, soft tissue, strain-counterstrain, visceral or craniosacral techniques, and others, it all depends on what you need. Book now to find out more. 

So is Osteopathy only for pain?

No! It's true Osteopathy is amazing for chronic pain, however, as it’s a holistic, whole-body approach to health care, it also uses manual techniques to balance all the systems of the body to provide overall good health and wellbeing, treatments can improve sleep cycles and the nervous, circulatory, and lymphatic symptoms. For those times you just feel something is "Off" Osteopathy can be a great way to realign and reset yourself. Book now