Janet Rooney, MOMSc
Manual Osteopathic Practitioner
At OsteoRhythm, we offer personalized manual osteopathic treatments to alleviate pain, enchance mobility, and improve your overall well-being. Discover the power of holistic healing.
Osteopathy is a gentle, hands-on manual therapy that seeks to remove obstructions or imbalances in the body. The goal of osteopathic treatment is to establish an environment in the body where it is able to self heal and self regulate. My goal is to find and treat the areas of restriction that are holding back the body’s ability to do this.
Whole Body Treatment
At your appointment, I will be motion testing your body, looking for asymmetries and motion restrictions. Osteopathy views the body as a whole from top to bottom, but also takes into consideration tissue layers from superficial to deep. There is often a pattern that develops with areas of restricted mobility and compensations for those areas of reduced motion. Therefore what is happening in one part of your body may be the result of what is happening somewhere else. There may also be compensations between layers of tissue. I may be treating fascia, muscles, ligaments and/or bones, depending on what is needed.
Individualized Treatment
Everyone’s body has a different history and different daily influences, so your treatment will be tailored to your specific presentation of restrictions. Following nerve and blood pathways from your symptoms to their origin, treatment is directed at finding the cause and understanding the relationships that exist between the altered structures and the altered functions in your body. Treatment aims to restore proper distribution of forces through the body so that all the parts can work together in a connected and integrated way, as a whole dynamic body.
Improve Mobility and Function
By freeing up restrictions in the body, this allows for enhanced drainage of lymph and venous pathways, optimization of the healing capacities of arterial blood (bringing nutrients, oxygen and hormones) to the areas of restriction, and improving nervous system communication and balance. All of this helps to increase the resources available to your body to self heal and better self regulate after the treatment. The better your body moves and the more coordinated the different parts of your body, the better the internal workings of your body function. Better sleep and less pain are also great goals in the therapeutic process.
Feel the difference, Live the difference
About Me:
Janet Rooney,
Osteopathic Manual Practitioner BA, BHSc, MOMSc
With carefully crafted care, I will endeavour to find how your specific life influences have impacted how your body moves and functions. Aligning structure, improving fluid flow and enhancing harmony between parts of your body will help restore your vitality and support long-term well-being. I am committed to helping your body achieve better balance and move with more coordinated rhythm.
Rhythm
The body exists harmoniously in a rhythmic flow. Restrictions that occur in the body abate rhythm, disrupt coordination between structures, and restrict symmetry and range in mobility. We have rhythm in our gait cycle, rhythm in our circulation, our breath cycles, our autonomic nervous system tone, our sleep-wake cycles, and within each joint. Rhythm also matters in treatment as how a practitioner handles the body can influence how the body’s nervous system responds to and accepts treatment.
A smooth coordinated rhythm between all parts and systems allows for a body equilibrium that sets the stage for enhanced vitality.
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Common Questions
In your appointment, I will be motion testing different parts of the body and using palpation to assess body tissues. You will mostly be laying still, but I will ask you to take deep breaths and to gently engage certain muscles throughout the treatment. What I am doing may feel like stretching, compressing, or rocking/oscillating. At no point should the treatment be painful, although sometimes it can feel like a very deep stretch. Please let me know if you experience pain and I can adapt what I am doing. As I work through the body, I will be moving you into different positions, depending on what your body can do.
Immediately after treatment, you should take it easy. No strenuous activity. Your body needs time to process the changes made. It takes about 1-3 days for your body to integrate the treatment and adapt to the changes made. The treatment may stimulate parts of your body that have been under-performing or not keeping up on their part of things. These parts may get “cranky” and cause you to experience some muscle soreness for a few days. This is normal.
Good ways to take care of yourself after a treatment include:
Light walk, bike or swim to get general range of motion activity and circulation going
Hydrate – give your cells water!
Heat or warm bath, especially if you experience sore muscles
Sleep – be mindful of your body’s needs
When you are new to my care, the usual schedule of appointments that you can expect will be:
Once a week for 3-4 weeks
Once every other week for the next 2 months
Once every 3-4 weeks
Once every season for maintenance, if you choose to do so
Often people with recent injuries or pain improve in 3-8 sessions. For people with pain that has been an issue for a long time or people with chronic illness, it takes longer to bring about improvement. There may be initial improvement within 6-12 sessions with progressive improvements happening over a longer period of time.