Five Very Unexpected Symptoms Related to Your Liver Health

liver diagram

Spring time: does it make you think about blooming flowers, birds singing, and warmer temperatures? As a practitioner, spring is also the time of year patients come with symptoms related to their liver (which, interestingly enough, is also when TCM doctors believe it is working the hardest). The liver’s job is to…

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No, You Probably Didn’t “Sleep Funny”…

digestive tract connective tissue

…and your lower back or neck doesn’t have a problem with your bedding, but it does with the holiday season! This is the time of year where osteopathic manual therapists see the most seized up lower backs and necks. And unlike the general belief, it does not come from “sleeping funny” but…

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Can Osteopathy Help My Baby Sleep Better?

baby sleep problems

Today in the Calgary Osteopathy blog, we are discussing sleep disturbances in babies and how Osteopathy can help. Usually, we consider babies that have a good sleep pattern to be those that can sleep at least five hours in a row without the need to be fed, starting at three months old.…

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Rib Pain Sometimes Caused By Stress And Being “Busy”

rib pain or stomach problems?

People usually think of the stomach as the thing around our belly button that hurts sometimes after some meals, but in the medical field we are talking about the stomach that sits in your left rib cage between the esophagus (the tube going down from the mouth) and the small intestine (that…

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