“To find health is the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease.”

- Andrew Taylor Still, founder of Osteopathy

So what is osteopathy anyway?

Osteopathy is a philosophy, an art, and a hands-on medical practice. It is based on the understanding that only when all of the tissues and cells of the body function together in harmonious motion, can health be realized.

In practice, Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) is a gentle hands-on approach to medicine that works with your body’s structure (soft tissues, muscles, bones, nervous system, etc.) to improve your overall function. In other words, it can help diagnose, treat, and prevent illness or injury.

Using OMT, your Osteopathic Physician (DO) will move your muscles and joints using techniques including stretching, gentle pressure and resistance.

When appropriate, OMT can complement – and even replace – drugs or surgery. In this way, osteopathy offers a profound contribution to medicine.

Who can benefit from Osteopathic Manipulation?

Anyone with structural relationships to their disease process. Especially those with a history of trauma. Also people who are looking to optimize their health and wellbeing.

Here’s a list of commonly treated conditions: 

Gastrointestinal

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Constipation, Nausea, Diarrhea

Genitourinary

  • Urinary incontinence, Prostatitis

Neurologic

  • Head trauma, post concussion syndrome, whiplash injury, migraine, dizziness and vertigo

Respiratory

  • Allergies, Asthma, Bronchitis, Frequent colds

Psychiatric

  • ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD

Somatic

  • Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, Joint or Muscular pain

Pediatric

  • Autism, Breastfeeding difficulty, Cerebral Palsy, Colic, Plagiocephaly, Otitis media

Pregnancy

  • Back pain, Pelvic Pain, Nausea, Edema

Complex conditions

  • Autoimmune illness, Post-infectious syndromes, POTS

“Osteopathy is a science with possibilities as great as the magnitude of the heavens. It is a science dealing with the natural forces of the body. We work as osteopaths with the traditional principle in mind that the tendency in the patient’s body is always towards normal. There is much to discover in the science of osteopathy by working with forces within that manifest the healing processes. These forces within the patient are greater than any blind force that can safely be brought to bear from without.”

- William Garner Sutherland, DO, Founder of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field (OCF)