What Does An Osteopathic Manual Practitioner Do?
Osteopathic Manual Therapy
Manual Osteopathic Therapy is a gentle, hands on, manual therapy that is drug-free and painless. Utilizing joint mobilization, muscle energy techniques and soft tissue therapy, along with cranial sacral osteopathic treatment and visceral manipulation. The combination of these extremely effective techniques results in an increased range of motion, increased fluid flow and decreased pain and inflammation. We see the body as a holistic unit, capable of self regulating and healing.
OSTEO HAVEN offers a broad array of techniques geared to address today’s most common chronic pain and injuries. We know there is no such thing as a "one-size-fits-all" treatment, so we never use "a one-size-fits-all" approach to your therapy.
Manual osteopathic therapy includes cranial osteopathy, manual-mechano therapy, osteo-articular mobilization, muscle energy techniques. soft tissue therapy, balanced ligamentous tension, myo-fascial release, strain/counterstrain, positional facilitated release, lymphatic drainage and visceral manipulation among others.
Osteopathic Tenets
1. The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind, and spirit.
2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and health maintenance.
3. Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.
4. Rational treatment is based upon an understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self-regulation, and the interrelationship of structure and function.