Are you looking for a holistic approach to your health and well-being? Have you been dealing with a painful condition that traditional healthcare doesn’t seem to be helping the way you’d hoped? You may benefit from osteopathic treatments. At Sports Medicine Experts in Dundas & Ancaster, ON, we offer an integrated team of highly trained practitioners dedicated to helping you get the results you deserve!
Osteopaths understand the human body’s interconnectedness and treat the root cause of your condition. This approach helps provide symptom relief while also helping to prevent or reduce the condition(s) from reoccurring in the future. In addition, osteopathy can help the circulatory, nervous and lymphatic systems.
If you are looking for a safe and highly effective way to find pain relief while helping your mobility and overall health and well-being, call Sports Medicine Experts today and schedule an appointment with one of our osteopaths!
What are the techniques used by osteopathy?
Osteopathy is more than just manual therapy; manual techniques are a cornerstone of the treatments. Some methods are similar to those used by a chiropractor or physiotherapist. But these techniques are used primarily in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and injuries (i.e., back and neck pain, cervicogenic headaches, or knee pain)
Osteopathic care contains over 100 different techniques or procedures. The most commonly used structural approaches are broadly grouped into seven major types:
- High-velocity low amplitude thrust (aka manipulation)
- Soft tissue/massage
- Articulation
- Muscle energy
- Counterstrain
- Myofascial release
- Lymphatic pump
Your highly skilled practitioner at Sports Medicine Experts in Dundas & Ancaster, ON will use whatever treatment approach will benefit your condition and help your overall health and well-being.
What conditions benefit from osteopathic treatments?
More and more research is providing evidence that osteopathic treatment can help a wide range of conditions, including:
- Back and neck pain – decreased intensity of perceived pain
- Knee osteoarthritis – reduced pain and improved function
- Pneumonia – reduced hospitalization time and reduced mortality
- Indirectly for cardiac surgery – decreased perceived pain and improved earlier times and more rapid discharges
Osteopathic treatments have been shown to improve blood oxygenation, blood pressure, and potassium and magnesium values. In addition, the manual osteopathic approach can significantly improve the symptoms of patients with chronic prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain, and irritable bowel syndrome, likely by reducing inflammatory cells systemically (aka throughout the body).
The goal of osteopathy is to help the whole person by alleviating pain and restoring the body’s function. Our team is here to help you in any way we can; call today to learn more about our services!