Contributed by William Jarrige/Revelstoke Osteopathy Clinic
In Europe, where osteopathy is very popular, osteopaths are essential in the national sport teams and work closely with physiotherapists, chiropractors, massotherapists, doctors and the whole health care team to improve the athletes’ performance, help them to recover quickly and sometimes to prevent them of being injured. Osteopathic practitioners also work with dentists and surgeons to help with the secondary effects related to the tension of the scars left after the surgery, or the headache symptoms following the extraction of a tooth or any dental work.
Why you should have an osteopathic practitioner in your health care team? To answer this question, you need to understand for what osteopathy is for and how it works.
Osteopathic practitioners practice only manual techniques. They consider the body as a whole interconnected system. This is why the osteopathic practitioner uses cranio-sacral techniques, visceral techniques, myo-fascial techniques, muscle energy techniques and so on to address the different systems. Therefore, the osteopathic practitioner can help you with chronic back pain as well as migraines or constipation.
It seems a little bit confusing but when you understand the biomechanics and anatomy, you understand why a trauma on your head can create more tension in your SI joint. Which doesn’t mean that if you have tension in your SI joint because you got a concussion — every patient is different. The osteopathic practitioner will do his best to explain to you his osteopathic treatment plan choice and also to make you feel the tension you have in your body that you are not necessary aware of.
This is why the osteopathic practitioner will assess your body to find which area needs to be treated to restore and improve your autoregulation system. It might take a few treatments, but if you consult your osteopathic practitioner regularly, once or twice a year, then the treatment can be very efficient when you are injured.
Osteopathic practitioners can help everybody, from babies to pregnant women to the elderly. That’s right, osteopathic practitioner also treat babies in their early days by using very gentle techniques such as myofascial and cranio-sacral techniques.
So, are you ready to have an osteopathic practitioner in your health care team now? If you are still hesitating, remember that you can now use your benefits with William and Anouk as both are member of Osteopathy BC, a worldwide recognized organisation, affiliated with most of the private insurance companies. Check with your insurance company to see if your plan covers osteopathy.
If you have more questions about osteopathy, and you want to communicate with William or Anouk about your problems, you can write them an email ([email protected]) or call them 250-814-7635 and they will be happy to answer your questions as much as they can.
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