Osteopathy

 

What is Osteopathy

Osteopathy is a client-centred discipline that is based on understanding the relationship between structure and function in order to enhance the body’s inherent ability to heal. It relies on skilled manual therapeutic techniques to assess and treat the client, assisting the natural self-healing properties of the human body.

​Osteopathic Manual Practitioners recognize a person as an integrated whole. When all of the body’s components are in balance, a person is complete and in optimal health. Osteopathic Manual Practitioners work to maintain, improve and restore the normal physiological function of interrelated body structures and systems, assisting the body’s natural ability to heal itself.

Using various assessment tools and perspectives, osteopaths work to identify and release restrictions, and restore mobility of tissues to decrease pain. This improves circulatory perfusion and promotes proper function and healing in people of all ages.

How does our osteopath, Neil Melanson, approach treatment?

He uses a whole-person model in treatment to positively affect the body, spirit and mind. This includes the refined structure-functional techniques of traditional osteopathy, Myofascial Release and Somatic Experiencing, and through traditional practices of mindfulness, meditation and perceptual studies. The effect of healing is not only contained in the body, but of all the space which reverberates from that change.

What conditions can osteopathy treat?

  • Muscluloskeletal injuries and pain: back, upper extremity, and lower extremity injuries and pain

  • Chronic pain syndromes

  • Head and neck pain including concussions, whiplash, TMJ and headaches

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

  • Reflux and constipation

  • Physical symptoms related to stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other mental health concerns

    Treatment will consist of a thorough assessment, followed by setting individualized goals, and then skilled one on one treatment sessions.

Neil’s uses a variety of treatment techniques for a holistic treatment including:

BIODYNAMIC CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY

OSTEOPATHIC ARTICULAR TECHNIQUES

MYOFACIAL RELEASE & UNWINDING

VISCERAL MANIPULATION

MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUES

SOMATIC EXPERIENCING TRAUMA THERAPY

For more information about osteopathy in Canada please visit: www.osteopathyontario.org. The Ontario Association of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners requires the highest standard of education and professional training in Ontario, which is 4200 Hrs of supervised clinical practice. Check your extended health benefits insurance policy to see your coverage for Osteopathy.