Manual Therapies

Manual Osteopathy/Rolfing is a group of related techniques that look at the deeper layers of the body.

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The body is a complex machine with many layers. Every day, our body endures stresses, strains, and injuries that can often cause the tissues to tighten and distort the craniosacral system and the viscera and fascia networks. These distortions cause tension around the fascia, brain, spinal cord, and organs, resulting in restrictions in movement, function, and pain. Underneath the pain or diagnosis is a compensatory pattern created in the body where the initial source of dysfunction is often far from where the pain is felt. All these systems, as mentioned earlier, are in perpetual motion. When you breathe, walk and stretch, your deeper layers move subtly. It is so subtle that we rarely think about it.  When you are healthy, all the structures move with an interconnected fluidity, but when a system is no longer freely mobile or is fixed to another structure, the body is forced to compensate. This disharmony creates fixed, abnormal points of tension and the chronic irritation gives way to functional and structural problems throughout the body. 

Manual Osteopathy is a hands-on approach that seeks out these compensatory patterns. It identifies the source of the issue and provides targeted treatment to the related tissues. This treatment involves the direct application of pressure, mobilization, and elongation of the soft tissues.