60 minutes of Osteopathic Assessment and Treatment

We begin with a thorough initial assessment tailored to your needs. During this session we’ll review your health history, current concerns, movement patterns, and any relevant medical information, then perform a full-body assessment and provide an individualized treatment plan.

Preparation and practicalities

• Wear comfortable, light clothing to move around in during treatment

• Bring any relevant medical records or imaging if available.

• Expect clear guidance on home care, movement suggestions, and follow-up recommendations.

Follow-up and care plan

After the initial assessment we’ll discuss findings and propose a treatment plan with recommended frequency and length of future sessions based on your goals and response to treatment.

Follow up Session

Available follow up appointment lengths: 30, 45, or 60 minutes.

What the treatment may include

• Myofascial release: gentle, hands-on techniques to reduce fascial restrictions and restore ease of movement.

• Visceral manipulation: focused work to improve mobility and function of internal organs and their influence on surrounding tissues.

• Cranial sacral therapy: subtle cranial and craniosacral techniques to support nervous system regulation and structural balance.

• Neurofunctional movement: guided movement re-education to restore motor control, coordination, and functional patterns.

• Lymphatic drainage: light, rhythmic techniques to support fluid movement and immune function.

Who benefits

• People with chronic pain, post-injury or post-operative restrictions, post concussion syndrome, headaches, digestive complaints, stress-related tension, chronic inflammatory conditisions, poor movement patterns, or swelling/lymphedema concerns.

• Those wanting a holistic approach integrating soft-tissue, visceral, cranial, and nervous-system-focused work.

What to expect

• 30 minutes: focused assessment and a targeted treatment addressing the most pressing issue(s). Best when time is limited or for a specific complaint.

• 45 minutes: balanced assessment and treatment allowing more hands-on time and additional techniques for broader areas of concern.

• 60 minutes: comprehensive full-body treatment, ideal when multiple areas or deeper, slower work (visceral, cranial, or lymphatic sequencing) is beneficial.

Initial Appointment 50 Minutes

Follow up Appointment 35 Minutes

A pediatric session involves a gentle, hands-on assessment for your child. The practitioner assesses for age appropriate movement milestones, tensions and dynamic changes that may be causing discomfort in the child. The therapist uses very light touch to check tension in the head, spine, torso and limbs. Sessions include talking with parents, a physical check, and soothing manual techniques to help your child adapt with their growing bodies. 

What to expect during the Visit

• Intake History: The practitioner asks about your child's birth, sleep habits, and health history to ensure a safe and specialized treatment plan

• Assessment: They watch your child move or rest. They use soft touch to identify any immobile body tissues or restricted areas.

• Soft Treatment: The practitioner uses very light pressure and movements engaging with the child to help relief any immobilities

• Rest and Calm: Most babies and kids stay quiet or fall asleep during the treatment
  

What are common issues that are treated?

For Babies (Newborns to Toddlers)

• Feeding Issues: Strains from birth can cause poor latching, lip and tongue ties, sucking asymmetry or weakness, or turning the head only to one side (torticollis)

• Digestive Discomfort: Structural tension can contribute to infant colic, excessive wind, reflux, and constipation. Occasionally this is seen as high abdominal tone or arching of the back.

• Birth Trauma Strains: Physical stress from deliveries, forceps, or vacuum suction can leave tensions spots in the baby's head, neck and spine. 

• Sleep Disruption: Persistent body discomfort or an overstimulated nervous system can prevent a baby from settling into deep sleep. 

• Postural Preferences: Conditions like flat head syndrome (plagiocephaly) or a preferred neck tilt (torticollis) respond well to soft tissue release.

For Older Children

• Growing Pains: Rapid growth spurts often cause structural asymmetries, aches in the legs, knees, and lower back.

• Postural Strains: Long hours sitting at school desks or looking down at digital screens can strain the neck and shoulders.

• Injury Recovery: Soft tissue care helps heal minor muscle strains, sprains, or imbalances caused by sports and active play.

• Recurrent Infections: Easing tension around the chest and neck can support fluid drainage, helping children manage glue ear or recurrent colds.

• Digestive complaints: lack of appetite, indigestion, or complaints of sore stomachs can be due to tensions in the organs, or the pressures around the abdomen and can be effetely relieved with gentle osteopathic care

Not your traditional Spa Massage. Therapeutic Manual therapy with an osteopathic influence including cranial sacral, visceral manipulation, myofascial release and mobility work.

Combined Massage Therapy and Acupuncture for Autoregulation, Movement, and Strength - Follow up session only 60 minutes

A combined approach using massage therapy and acupuncture targets the nervous system to promote autoregulation, restore efficient movement patterns, increase strength, and release areas that have been neurologically inhibited. By addressing both soft tissue and neurophysiologic drivers of dysfunction or pain, this integrative model supports lasting change rather than temporary symptom relief.

How it works — neurophysiology in plain language

• Peripheral input and central processing: Massage supplies targeted mechanoreceptor input (pressure, shear, stretch) that changes afferent signals from muscles, fascia, and skin. Acupuncture introduces focused sensory stimuli (needle and/or electroacupuncture) that modulate afferent pathways and reflex arcs. Together, they alter how the spinal cord and brain interpret and regulate muscle tone and movement.

• Autoregulation: These interventions encourage the nervous system to regain self-regulation (autoregulation) — the ability of neural circuits to set appropriate baseline tone, reflex gain, and movement strategies without maladaptive compensation.

• Neuroplastic effects: Repeated, well-timed peripheral input promotes synaptic reweighting and cortical remapping, helping to restore inhibited motor units and reorganize motor patterns toward more efficient, coordinated activation.

• Pain modulation and descending control: Both modalities activate endogenous pain inhibitory systems (descending pain modulatory pathways), reducing nociceptive drive that can sustain inhibition and poor movement patterns.

Clinical targets and expected changes

• Release of inhibited muscles: Inhibition from pain, guarding, or altered afferent input often reduces recruitment of specific muscles. Combined treatment reduces nociceptive input and normalizes sensory feedback, allowing those muscles to re-engage.

• Improved motor control and timing: By restoring more accurate sensory information and decreasing protective guarding, the nervous system can retrain precise activation timing across joints and segments.

• Enhanced strength and endurance: As previously inhibited motor units are recruited and movement patterns normalize, functional strength improves more quickly and sustainably than with strengthening alone.

• Better coordination and movement economy: Integration of sensory-motor input improves intermuscular coordination, reducing compensatory strategies that waste energy and increase injury risk.

Typical assessment process

• Functional movement screening: Observation of key tasks (squat, hinge, lunge, gait, reach) to identify dysfunctional patterns, asymmetries, and compensations.

• Neuromuscular testing: Manual muscle testing and electromyographic-informed palpation to locate inhibited or overactive muscles.

• Palpation and refined experience of the therapist are paramount to safety and effectiveness of treatment