Time and time again we receive phone calls and emails asking what Osteopathy is and how it can help. If you’ve made it to the blog on the website you’re already curious, please check out our first blog talking about what Osteopathy is and who it can help. In this post we’re going to talk about how it works, and the focuses we have while working with patients. Osteopathy is built and based on improving the bodies overall health and functioning. The body has self healing and self regulating mechanisms, it wants to and strives to be as healthy [...]

If you have been following me for some time you have seen me either write or speak about this in the past, I don’t want to be redundant, however, it is important to understand this concept. Firstly to define both of these. Understanding that health and performance are on sliding scales and therefore the definition will be different for different populations. For example, health to an 80 year old man may be getting onto the toilet and off of the toilet without pain while health may be the triathlete paying attention to biometrics and saying their resting heart rate [...]

These are not the only thing that are important to having a healthy treatment process, however, these are a few of the things we are going to touch on at the moment. As we’ve chatted about before osteopathic treatment has a goal of getting you to be as healthy as possible. Obviously, treatment itself can only help you get as healthy as you can be with what you are currently working with. So here are a few things you can focus on to improve other aspects of life. As movement is reintroduced to different areas of the body there [...]

Well the fact that you're on this page shows that you either are interested in treatment or are already in the treatment process. The first thing you can do to help yourself in the healing process is to GET TREATMENT. If you haven't had treatment and are curious please check out our other blogs or our socials to get an idea as to what we do with Osteopathy and Massage Therapy. You can also contact us directly to ask any questions you may have in regards to the treatment process. Now if you are already in the treatment process [...]

The Broeckel Clinic began and continues to strive to be an integrated care clinic in which the practitioners are fully invested in Patient Based Care. Patient based care means that we focus on what you need as a patient, not on the symptoms you come in with, not on your insurance, not on anything except you. As a patient you should have patient based or patient centered care. In particular we want to make sure that you are being taken care of to the absolute best of our abilities, as well as making sure that you are improving at [...]

Osteopathy emphasizes the interrelationship between structure and function of the body. Osteopaths are functional anatomists who use manual therapy. They find the health, rather than focus on disease. Osteopathic treatment works to restore proper body mechanics, nerve impulses and the circulation of body fluids. Osteopathy itself is focused on improving the health of the patient in hand, the science and art of treatment is built around the patient becoming a healthier, and better functioning person. Looking at the body as a whole and looking for the cause of the dysfunction or lack of health. This sounds unclear, as we [...]