If you are familiar with Osteopathy already, you likely relate Osteopathy to the treatment of physical ailments, such as back pain, joint pain, and digestive issues. Physical ailments, like these, are common reasons why we tend to reach out to manual therapists, like Osteopaths, to provide us relief from pain. However, Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy (aka., Osteopathy) can provide us much, much more.

Our mind and body are an interconnected system, therefore, when we are experiencing emotional and psychological distress and/or dysfunction, we will also experience impacts to our system (body): sympathetic and parasympathetic tone (autonomic nervous system), heart rate variability, gut health and gut-brain communication, and structural functions – resulting in immobility, tension, and pain. In turn, if these functions and pathways in our body are not restored, they will continue to contribute to the persistence of dysfunction in our emotional and psychological health.