DURING THE SESSION
Diagnosis
Explanation
Explanation
Each session begins with hearing your story. The most valuable information for making the right diagnosis is your experience: where the discomfort is, how it occurred, what causes and relieves the pain, etc. The examination then allows me to confirm that your problem is of musculoskeletal origin and that osteopathy can help.
Explanation
Explanation
Explanation
The body creates pain when it thinks there is danger. Often it does, but sometimes the body can misinterpret and cause pain when there is no danger. Depending on the case, a different approach will help you best.
Relief
Explanation
Prevention
Often pain prevents us or makes us afraid to move. Osteopathy, through painless techniques, relieves both new (acute) and persistent (chronic) pain. Feeling less pain helps us regain confidence in our bodies, allowing us to find (again) the pleasure of movement.
Prevention
Explanation
Prevention
My goal is not only to relieve your pain, but to help you prevent future pain. By developing a plan specific to your case, we can not only prevent pain, but avoid future consultations. Instead of depending on an osteopath, you can be self-sufficient.
Methods in osteopathy
Cranial osteopathy
Cranial osteopathy is a specific approach within the osteopathic concept. It acts on the structure and spinal fluid surrounding and enveloping the central nervous system, affecting the whole body and initiating the body's inherent ability to heal itself. Fascial connections throughout the body are adjacent to the sheaths surrounding the central nervous system, including the dura mater and other structures. Practitioners of cranial osteopathy use a manual approach to achieve these goals within the practice of osteopathic medicine.
Visceral osteopathy
Visceral manipulation combines the interrelationship between the structure and function of the internal organs as a site for treatment of the musculoskeletal system. Integral organ health and the network of supporting structures can be manipulated to promote improvement in organ function. Organ mobility as a component of muscle freedom of movement can also be enhanced through this procedure. Internal organ manipulation can be used beneficially in the treatment of internal organ dysfunction, structural musculoskeletal dysfunction, and many other disease conditions.
Myofascial release
Your body's fascial support system has a tensile strength of about 45,000 feet per square inch, making it roughly equivalent to that of mild steel. This procedure is designed to treat primarily the myofascial structures that are distributed throughout your body. When we consider that the fascial system of your body provides support and responds to stresses and strains, it is critical that it not be restricted. When using direct myofascial release therapy (MRT), a restrictive barrier is triggered in the myofascial tissues. The tissue is loaded with a constant force until release occurs. With indirect MRT treatment, dysfunctional tissues are directed along the path of least resistance until free movement is achieved so that your body can work freely and without difficulty.
Lymphatic therapy
Through the movement of lymph fluid, your body carries extracellular materials, such as waste and nutrients, to exchange them. This manual procedure is designed to promote the circulation of lymph fluid and can be used to treat a variety of ailments. Many techniques of this genre involve increasing breathing and chest wall and abdominal excursions. The lymphatic system, unlike the arterial system, is a low-pressure system that flows in response to negative intrathoracic pressure within the chest cavity during the respiratory cycle. Lymphatic stasis, or poor lymph movement, results in the accumulation of these fluids and the buildup of waste in the body and lack of proper nutrient distribution.
Muscle energy technique
Often muscles and joints are restricted in movement due to muscle spasm. In chronic cases, this can lead to fibrosis, which is the body's inadequate response to lack of movement by creating denser collagen fibers, causing the joints to become fixed. Using this gentle technique the patient can be directed to use their muscles from a specific position and in a specific direction against a counter force applied by the doctor. Properly applied Muscle Energy will restore movement, reduce changes in muscle tissue and reverse the asymmetry of somatic dysfunction by normalizing joint ranges of motion and breaking down fibrous tissue.
Counterstrain
The Contrast Technique is a very gentle passive procedure specifically designed to address severe pain points in tendons and muscles. Many severe pain points are due to mixed signals coming from unbalanced gamma amplification from Golgi tendon organs at the site of these soft tissue structures. In this treatment procedure, the patient moves passively from the restricted movement barrier to a position that is most comfortable. At this point, the corresponding gamma gain distortion in the affected muscle fibers is restored to normal, thereby relieving the painful stimuli.
Osteoarticular technique
HVAL is what is usually thought of when you turn the joint and hear a slight "popping" sound. It's a set of very gentle articulation techniques that help increase limited range of motion as well as relieve muscle hypertonia. The osteoarticular technique is HVLA with even less force to achieve similar goals.
Somato-emotional release
Our bodies are a map of our life experience. Physical and emotional traumas can leave traces in our fascia. Somato-emotional release is based on the fact that body tissues are extremely complex. So complex that they are capable of recording significant traumatic events in a person's life by recording these patterns in muscle memory. Gentle fascial and cranial ligament unwinding techniques can be used to release these imprints that often block healing. Full health is achieved with the restoration of full movement of the physical body and the release of emotional distortions that impede the free flow and healing ability of the body.