The Core Principles of Osteopathy
The Body is a Dynamic Unit of Function: Osteopathy views the body as a whole where all parts are interconnected. An Osteopathic Manual Practitioner (OMP) seeks to understand the relationships between different parts and different systems.
The Body is capable of Self-healing and Self-regulation: The body has an innate ability to heal itself and self-regulate. An OMP’s job is to facilitate the body’s ability to do so by removing the impediments to health.
Structure and Function are Interrelated: Issues that arise in the body’s structure (fascia, muscles, bones) can lead to issues in bodily functioning (pain, reduced mobility, impaired organ functioning) and vice versa.
How Osteopathy Can Help You
Osteopathy offers many benefits in helping people to overcome different health challenges.
When the structure of your body is out of its normal alignment, how the body functions will be influenced. Symptoms are an effect of this disequilibrium. In my search for alleviating your symptoms, I will be looking for the connection between the altered structure and altered function. When I am able to open areas that are restricted, these areas gain better access to resources that will help them to heal.
The longer an area has been obstructed, the longer the therapeutic process will take. I cannot undo permanent damage, but enhancing circulation has benefits in maintenance care of reducing the symptoms from the areas of dis-ease. It takes a few days for the changes made on the treatment table to have an effect on your overall body.
Some of the main benefits of osteopathic care are:
Pain Relief
Relieve pain and discomfort caused from various conditions such as back pain, neck pain, headaches and joint pain.
Range of Motion
Improved joint range of motion and general body mobility.
Better posture
Through improved alignment, the body is better able to load gravity so that force is more evenly distributed, which contributes to body system disharmony.
Maintenance care
Although you may have a condition that is not going away, osteopathic care can help to improve circulation and reduce symptoms to help you better manage day to day living between treatments.
Prevention care
Often times the ground work had been laid for disease or injury to occur. The areas of restriction that OMPs find that you may not have noticed (yet), are that ground work.
Equilibrium
Improve overall health and well being by addressing imbalances in body systems that work together in unity to create equilibrium and balance in the body.
Reduction of stress
By reducing compression and tension in body tissues and reducing nervous system tone, this also promotes relaxation.
Improved organ function
Through enhancing lymphatic and venous system drainage, enhancing arterial blood flow and improving nerve communication, organs are better able to carry out their jobs with normal function.
Why Choose Osteopathic Care
You may choose Osteopathic care for a variety of reasons including recovery from an injury, alleviating aches and pains, preventive or maintenance care, help to reduce stimulation of the stress part of your nervous system, or freeing up restrictions in the body that are reducing the energy you have for the things you really want to do in your day.