Body & Mind Osteopathic Clinic

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MY APPROACH TO TREATMENT AS AN OSTEOPATHIC-MASSAGE THERAPIST
Many massage therapists learn various techniques developed by osteopaths. However, simply because you have learned and use a technique does not make the treatment osteopathic, nor make it to be what I understand as osteopathic massage. When I treat I am not picking and choosing which technique to use or in what order. I work from the perspective of using the principles and aims that both massage and osteopathy share. Precisely because I have spent so much time learning technique and theory, learning osteopathic principles and osteopathic techniques for massage therapy, I can now leave behind any recipe approach. I no longer treat a condition with a text-book approach, nor do I follow some prescribed steps of any single technique. With each and every client, and within each treatment session, over a series of treatments, I create manipulations and approaches as I proceed. My only objective is to listen and respond to the needs of the tissue, to the client as they are right now.

This, I believe, is treating osteopathically. This is what I call osteopathic massage therapy. – Vadzim Siniauski

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