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…
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…
Osteopaths listen to their patients with all their senses. We look at you, but also through you; we listen with our ears, but also with our instincts; we feel with our hands, but also see with them; it’s a sense that grows with each year we practice. When Sam came to the…
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…
