A patient of mine–let’s call him “Doug”–was walking his dog a while ago when an appetizing squirrel suddenly ran in front of them and his dog decided it was dinner time. The dog pulled hard on the leash, causing Doug to lose balance on a patch of ice and fall quite harshly…
Today’s article is about the significant link between your lower back and your intestines, and how back pain can actually be caused by poor gut health in many cases. As Osteopathic therapists, we are often asked how Osteopathy is different from Chiropractic, and here is an example to illustrate it: Paul came…
…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…
Today in the Calgary Osteopathy blog, we are discussing sleep disturbances in babies and how Osteopathy can help. Usually, we consider babies that have a good sleep pattern to be those that can sleep at least five hours in a row without the need to be fed, starting at three months old.…
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 is…
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…
Today in the Osteopath Calgary blog, Lavina, an expecting mother and a patient of ours, shares her experience with Osteopathic treatment during pregnancy: “At my first appointment, I was in the middle of my third pregnancy and was experiencing lots of pain in my lower back making it difficult to walk, my…
