I treat patients as complex and dynamic individuals, working together to find the health in the whole. My practice is grounded in a perceptual experience of wholeness; its foundation is finding the inherent health. 

Osteopaths work directly with their hands to diagnose and treat at the same time. We use imaging, lab work, and medication, when indicated, but we do not always start or end there. Learn more about my specific treatment approaches below. 

Osteopathy developed on the American prairie druing the late nineteenth century as a school of thought uniting Western medicine with a holistic understanding. Many mainstream physical therapies and manual medicine approaches derive from osteopathy, but what makes it distinct is its focus on motion throughout the whole rather than solely adjusting specific misalignments.

Osteopathic medicine holds that patients are a unity of mind, body, and spirit. It operates from a fundamental understanding of the body’s capacity for self-regulation and self-healing. Hands-on treatment can be a fulcrum for inherent self-healing mechanisms. The doctor and patient work together to reduce symptoms by identifying causes and treating the body as an interconnected whole. Then, an afflicted part can be engaged and reintegrated into the greater wholeness. This approach allows traditional osteopaths to often accomplish substantial shifts in function with relatively small amounts of force.

Functional medicine aligns with osteopathy and takes a web-like systems biology approach to ask why and how disease occurs. It focuses on identifying underlying causes, looking to the gut-brain axis and the neuro-endocrine-immune system as nodes to modulate function. Measured recommendations utilize interventions such as activity and movement, food plans, laboratory studies, and nutritional supplements. Recommendations may also include mind-body interventions including meditation, guided imagery, self-hypnosis, breathwork, and relaxation exercises.