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MANUAL OSTEOPATHY

Registered Edmonton Practitioner

Manual osteopathy therapy takes a holistic approach to restore your body’s natural healing processes. Looking at the body as a whole, focusing on getting the pelvis/body back into alignment and decreasing any build up of tension on the joints, muscles, and spine which relieves pain, tension, and stress.

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WHAT IS MANUAL OSTEOPATHY?

Manual Osteopathy is a manual therapy that promotes health and healing throughout the body consisting of modalities: osteo-articulations (bone alignment), myo-fascial release, lymphatic drainage, cranial sacral therapy, and visceral manipulations (decreasing organ fascial tension).

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Manual Osteopathy uses hands-on diagnosis/therapy and treatment is done fully clothed.

Benefits of Manual Osteopathy:

  • Reduces Muscular and Skeletal Pain

  • Restores a Greater Range of Motion to the Body

  • Resolving a Frozen Shoulder

  • Manages Lower Back Pain

  • Decreases Hip Pain

  • Improves Hip Mobility

  • Improves Postural Problems

  • Promotes Circulation

  • Improves Body Functions

  • Lowers Stress Levels

  • Reduces Headaches

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TREATMENT PLAN

The treatment plan will be individually tailored to each session to your specific symptoms, issues, and health concerns.

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Manual Osteopathy Treatment may include:  

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  • Osteo-Articulations: improve joint range of motion and skeletal alignment

  • Myo-fascial Release: decrease fascial tension

  • Lymphatic Drainage: improve lymphatic flow

  • Cranio-sacral Therapy: a very gentle technique that uses only 5 grams of pressure that balances the body’s natural rhythm of joints/cerebrospinal fluid and brings back the cranial bones into alignment.

  • Visceral Manipulation: a gentle manual therapy that helps release fascial tension at an organ level.

Insurance Companies that have Manual Osteopathy Therapy billing privileges:

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  • Alberta Blue Cross

  • Canada Benefit Providers

  • Chamber of Commerce Insurance

  • CINUP

  • ClaimSecure

  • ClaimXchange

  • Desjardin Insurance

  • Equitable Life

  • Empire Life

  • Greenshield

  • Group Medical Services (GMS)

  • Group Source

  • Johnston Group

  • Manulife

  • Maximum Benefits

  • Medavie (not Veterans Affairs)

  • NexGenRX

  • Pacific Blue Cross

  • People Corporation

  • Saskatchewan Blue Cross

  • Sunlife

  • The Co-operators

Insurance Companies that have direct billing for Manual Osteopathy Therapy:

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  • Telus Health

  • Beneva Inc.

  • BPA - Benefit Plan Administrators

  • Canadian Construction Workers Union

  • Chambers of Commerce Group Insurance

  • CINUP

  • ClaimSecure

  • Coughlin & Associates Ltd.

  • Cowan

  • D.A. Townley

  • Desjardins Insurance

  • Equitable

  • First Canadian

  • GMS Carrier 49

  • GMS Carrier 50

  • GroupHEALTH

  • GroupSource

  • Industrial Alliance

  • Johnson Inc.

  • Johnson Group Inc.

  • LiUNA Local 183

  • LiUNA Local 506

  • Manion

  • Manulife Financial

  • Maximum Benefit

  • MDM Insurance Services Inc.

  • People Corporation

  • Simply Benefits

  • TELUS AdjudiCare

  • Union Benefits

  • UV Insurance

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