What to Expect
For your first visit, please complete the online intake form before coming, and please bring a pair of loose shorts and tank top to wear for every treatment. The room will be warm, and there is a snuggly blanket on the table. After a short conversation with respect to your health and goals for the treatment, I will assess via palpation, not only where you feel your discomfort, but also, generally.
Osteopathy involves allowing your tissues to inform the practitioner through palpation, where to treat. In this way, your treatment is guided by the needs of your body, as opposed to me deciding for you what I think might be best.
Most patients find the treatments gentle, and many fall asleep on the table, but some patients are more sensitive. I expect you to tell me if something is uncomfortable, and where you feel the discomfort.
It is likely you will not be lying down for the entire treatment, but rather sitting, standing, or in another position for part of the session, so as to better treat your discomfort in the position that's bothersome.
The treatments are 90 minutes to ensure adequate time to complete a session without feeling rushed.
Some pain issues can be resolved in about three treatments, but the longer an issue has been present, the more systemic it becomes, and the longer it takes to unwind and rebalance your tensegrity.
Your body web expresses the sum total of your life - your motor vehicle accidents, your falls, your wounds, your surgeries, your habitual postures, your habitual activities, your movement and exercise habits, and even your nutritional health and disease states. You go into every incident with your pre-existing body-web shape.
Generally, the older we are, the more impacts we've had to our body-web, taking out more and more slack in our system. Perhaps this is why, frequently the older we are, the shorter our steps when we walk, the less capable we are at reaching into high cupboards, and why we fall into chairs and have trouble getting out of them. We no longer have the range-of-motion to do these activities, and often they hurt, because we have lost too much slack in our tensegrity-web.
It is possible for you to reduce your discomfort and regain your range-of-motion. Treatments to unglue adhered tissue combined with daily mobility exercise are helpful.
I would be honoured to treat you and give you guidance with respect to which mobility exercises would be most beneficial to you.
