Chances are you haven’t given your diaphragm a lot of thought—maybe you never really have until now! To say that the diaphragm is just responsible for breathing is an understatement for two reasons. The first is that breathing is a HUGE process that occurs in our body, it’s essential to life and…
We all have phases of our lives where things pick up; maybe it’s because you’ve welcomed a new baby, or taken up a new role at work, or a family member needs extra support during a difficult time. There’s no denying that life goes through cycles. The problem is that in our…
Why should a manual practitioner care about your happiness? Well, we care about it because your state of mind influences the state of your body more than you might think. Moreover, osteopathy is holistic, which means we consider you–the whole of you–to be a piece of the puzzle in getting you healthy…
Often, patients ask me “why would you move to Canada when you could have stayed in France?” Well, let me tell you: it wasn’t for the cold, snowy, never-ending winters! It was quite shocking at first to truly experience a cold and very long Calgary winter. While it was gloomy and more…
Sarah came to the clinic a while after she had her first baby. She wasn’t feeling like herself anymore, and not just physically: she reported feeling quite “worried” and fearful all the time about her newborn, her husband, and many other things. Sarah thought there was maybe something physically wrong with her…
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…
Today in the Osteopath Calgary blog, I’m going to talk about the three biological stages of stress in the body. A question all of our patients get asked during an Osteopathic treatment is “do you feel stressed?” About 90% of the time, the patient says “no”, or “gosh, it’s nothing compared to…
