Osteopathy

After graduating from massage school, I soon realized that I didn’t have the necessary tools to bring about the systemic changes I was looking to give my patients. Although massage is good at soft tissue work, it’s limited in its scope. As I looked further into the possibilities of manual therapy, I came to see

Both utilize therapeutic exercises to help the structure of the body find balance. Physiotherapy utilizes up to 60% hands-on treatments, whereas with Manual Osteopathy, it is usually closer to 90%. With a physiotherapist, generally the exercises are the primary focus. With a Manual Osteopath, the hands-on component is the main focus.

Chiropractic and Osteopathy share many of the same principles. However, how they go about enacting those principles are often quite different. Chiropractors primarily focus on the spine and nervous system, whereas the osteopathic perspective encompasses all the joints in the body, including the sutures of the skull, as well as the muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves,

There are many similarities among the principles of Osteopathy and massage. Namely the importance of the circulation of blood and lymph, and the recognition of structure and function being interrelated. However, these two fields often go about enacting these principles in very different ways. A massage therapist (RMT) tends to apply techniques on the body