What is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a treatment based on the principle of treating the body as a whole. It’s designed to treat musculoskeletal pain, whether muscle, bone, joint or nerve, and it focuses on treating multiple areas of the body for optimal results rather than a single point. This is why Osteopathy is regarded as an ideal treatment for general body maintenance as well.

Our Baden and Waterloo Osteopathy is all about finding areas with tension, swelling, tenderness, or mobility issues and manually restoring health. It is based on an in-depth understanding of the structure and function of the body. This knowledge is applied to all diseases, disorders, and dysfunctions in order to find and address the root cause of the issue. This can include improving your body’s function, increasing mobility, and improving circulation.

Treatment involves some soft tissue massage work, joint mobilizations to increase movement in stiff joints, and muscle energy techniques to stretch tight muscles. Other techniques such as active release, cranial-sacral therapy, and visceral manipulation can be added to the treatment when appropriate.  All techniques are relaxing and not painful; therefore treatment is enjoyable. Osteopathy works on the principle of treating the body as a whole, and therefore multiple areas are worked on which increases positive results.

How Can Osteopathy Help Me?

Osteopath is the ideal treatment for a wide variety of conditions, pains, and general body maintenance. Whether you have a disease, disorder, dysfunction, or are just in pain, our team can detect and treat any bodily tensions. Using non-invasive manual therapy, our Waterloo and Baden Osteopaths will unlock your body’s natural ability for self-correction and health restoration. This can involve following the tissue into specific positions while utilizing internal forces and rhythms through a series of purposeful movements. Some of the most common conditions our Osteopaths treat are listed below.

Osteopathy Treatment Plans

We will always take the time to develop an osteopathy treatment plan that is tailored to your specific needs. We begin with an initial assessment to get a better idea about your current condition, medical history, lifestyle, and body. Our Waterloo and Baden Osteopaths will ask you about your goals and then put together a treatment plan to help you reach them. We tailor all of our osteopathy treatment plans to each unique patient so that we can properly explain your recovery, track your progress, and get your body back in motion.

A typical Osteopathy treatment involves soft tissue massage work, joint mobilization to improve movement and muscle energy techniques to stretch tight muscles. Using manual palpation to assess the mobility, position and vitality of the tissue, restrictions can be determined anywhere in the body. Areas of swelling, tenderness, tension, thermal differences and quality of mobility are evaluated.

Our Baden and Waterloo treatments seek to identify the cause of the tension and uses gentle non-invasive manual therapy to unlock the body’s natural capacity for self-correction; improving function, increasing mobility, enhancing circulation and restoring health. The therapist releases restrictions by locating tensions, following the tissue into specific positions and engaging internal rhythms and forces while continuing to follow the tissue through a series of movements.