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…
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…
…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…
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…
