Osteopathic Manual Treatments
Visceral Manipulation
If you are suffering from acute or chronic pain, muscle aches and stiffness, ongoing stress and tension or simply wish to enhance your physical wellbeing, book an appointment for Manual Osteopathy.
Osteopathy is a drug-free, non-invasive manual therapy which is safe for the whole family.
Manual Osteopathy aims to improve health across all body systems by manipulating and strengthening the muscles and skeletal framework focusing on the joints, muscles, and spine thereby impacting the underling nerves, lymph, blood vessels and nearby connective tissues.
Manual Osteopathy utilizes many hands on modalities including:
Muscle energy techniques work to voluntarily contract muscles against a counter force. It can therapeutically reduce the risk of injury, reduce pain, stretch muscles, improve flexibility and strengthen muscles while improving circulation to local tissues.
Mobilisations assist to realign muscle fibers back into normal form, addressing joint restrictions while increase range of movement. The result is decreased pain.
Cranial osteopathy involves gently manipulating the bones and connective tissues of the brain and cranium, easing restrictions, normalizing fluid flow and supporting fascial continuity from skull to sacrum
Manual osteopathy can directly address the joints, ligaments and tendons which contribute to improved mobility, range of motion issues and decreased nerve pain
Cranial osteopathy uses gentle hand pressure to therapeutically manipulate bones and influence fascia in the cranium.
CranioSacral Therapy employs a system of gentle touch designed to enhance the functioning of the membranes, tissues, fluids, and bones surrounding or associated with the brain and spinal cord
Myofascial release works to relax contracted muscles through applying sustained pressure to fascia, improving blood, oxygen, and lymphatic circulation, and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles.
Visceral manipulation is a modality developed by Jean Pierre Barral, that assists optimal function of digestive and urinary organs and addresses structural imbalances primarily in the pelvic region resulting from direct trauma, spasms or injury. Visceral manipulation also influence the emotional state. Described best in Eastern medicine, each emotion is primarily associated with a corresponding body organ and system.
“When you have adjusted the physical to its normal demands, nature supplies the remainder.”
Interested in learning more about Osteopathic Manual Therapy? Read more about the Benefits of Osteopathy. Contact Us to book your initial consultation or call (619) 712-3448 to book your appointment today.