Manual Therapies

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

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, viscera and fascia network. These distortions cause tension to form 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 aforementioned systems are in perpetual motion. When you breathe, walk and stretch, your deeper layers move in subtle ways. 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 point of tension and the chronic irritation gives way to functional and structural problems throughout the body. 

Manual Osteopathy searches out this pattern, determines the source and treats those related tissues. The treatment is a hands on compression, mobilization and elongation of the soft tissues.

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