Manual Osteopathy

Why Choose MO?

Osteopathy considers the body as a tensegrity structure wherein an injury to a single party of the body will create symptoms dispersed throughout the body in which the body creates compensatory behaviours to cope and mask. An injury may be considered as physical, mental/emotional, environmental or genetic trauma. 

Picture this: A ball covered in mud is thrown at a wall. You see the impact the ball has made at the wall - obvious mechanism of injury, obvious location of injury.. but after hitting the wall the ball bounces off to its resting point.

Manual Osteopathy considers the injury and then asks the body where the resting point of this injury is - and treats both.

Picture this: You’ve had a rough day out playing - let’s say mountain biking, you got big air, you lost control, adrenaline kicks in, you're aware you are not making the landing and hit a surface with your body, breaking a rib.  You have a mechanism of injury, you have force tensegrity (how much impact was absorbed by the body) and now we can also add in a sympathetic tone - the fight of flight of the nervous system “Something’s wrong, I’m not ok”.  The nervous, fascial and lymphatic system love to hold sympathetic tone, will store our flight and flight until its given opportunity to recognize the trauma is over. “The Body Keeps Score - Bessel Van de Kolk”.  Long after, years after, the body may still be holding “nervous energy” of an event you may have even forgotten about. Manual Osteopathy will address the physical injury and can use physical techniques to release and address the flight and flight held.

A Manual Osteopath assesses the body as a whole unit, governing the lymphatic, circulatory, fascia, nervous and musculoskeletal systems in its complexity. Exacting assessment tools gives the therapist an overall view of dysfunction of the fascial, fluid and skeletal systems that may betray physical symptoms.