Osteopathy is a manual (hands on) therapy that assess and treats the body as a whole in order to find the cause of dysfunction leading to pain, immobility and irritability. 

How does it work?

 Osteopathy strives to restore mobility in areas that are restricted or have fully lost their mobility due to scarring or other fixations, possibly caused by trauma or infection.

The treatment involves gently mobilizing muscle, fascia* , joints, organs, bones including those of the cranium and face as well as the fluids found with in them.

 The osteopathic practitioner is trained to perceive minute discrepancies in joint, fascia and organ mobility /positioning. Applying hundreds of techniques acquired over the course of a five year program, the practitioner effectively treats physical dysfunction. The practitioner will treat the patient in many different positions whether sitting, side lying, lying on their back or on their front, the patient is dressed in minimal clothing (shorts, and tank top for women) and the therapist will gently mobilize the intended tissue from these positions. Most the mobilizations are very gentle and very specific to the affected area being worked on.
  Osteopaths do not treat conditions. Rather, they look for the root cause of dysfunction that may manifest as a head ache, neck pain, upper or lower back pain, bowel or mood irritability as well as an endless myriad of other symptoms. As stated by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in his 1908 autobiography:” All diseases are mere effects, the cause being a partial or complete failure of the nerves to properly conduct the fluids of life”.

Osteopathy was introduced by Dr. Still at the latter part of the 19^th century in the United States. The name Osteopathy is derived from a compound of Osteon which is the primary bone cell and Pathos which means suffer. As the bone provides the source of the circulatory system it is from this source and beyond that the osteopath investigates the source of primary dysfunction.