Welcome to the Wanaka Osteopathic Clinic
We have been working alongside Wanaka’s very active community for many years. This experience means we can treat your sporting injuries, digestive issues, migraines, work-related injuries, even old stubborn injuries and provide significant and lasting results. You don’t need to have specific areas of pain to get results from treatment, as osteopathy looks at the whole body to improve overall health.
At the Wanaka Osteopathic Clinic, you are in good hands. Osteopaths are medically trained to make an accurate diagnosis of your presenting condition and to use a range of hands-on techniques. We choose those that are most suitable to enabling specific problems to resolve and adapting these for each person.
This means we have treatment to suit everyone, whether you are a tradie, a multisporter, a keen skiier, a golfer, a busy mum a retiree, or just new to the world.
OUR VIEW
Osteopaths view the body as a whole and we treat the whole body. All parts are important and interconnected. We don’t separate out a problem or disease but look at how these are being created within the whole person. We can then look at how we can support the body to improve health in these systems.
PROGRESSIVE
The Wanaka Osteopathic Clinic are constantly researching and developing the ways in which we treat. This is how we can provide such effective treatment for the distinct population of Wanaka.
EXPERIENCE IN THE COMMUNITY
We have been serving the Wanaka community for a long time so we have a good understanding of your conditions.
YOUR WELLBEING
Osteopaths are looking at your overall well-being as well as any specific problems you may have. For example you may have sprained your ankle but you also have a cold and you are under stress, so we will look to support your immune system and your nervous system as well as treating your ankle. This means your overall well-being improves making you more resilient.
PRACTITIONERS
HEALTH AS THE GOAL AND THE MEANS
Osteopaths use the health of the body to guide healing in areas needed, promoting greater health. Disease is not the main focus. We consider the function of the person as a whole, where some systems are struggling and disease has ensued. By identifying and improving health and circulation across systems, the overall health improves and the person becomes more resilient.
HANDS-ON TREATMENT
Osteopaths spend many years learning about human anatomy and physiology. We learn to understand the skeletal system in great detail and are taught to use our hands to feel through the different layers (skin, fascia, muscle) to the skeletal system. This takes many years and allows us to scan your structure for restriction to movement, right down to the skeleton. Once a structural diagnosis is made, a technique can be used to restore movement in restricted parts.
WHAT ABOUT THE ORGAN SYSTEMS?
Osteopaths are taught to diagnose and treat to improve the health of organ systems, this is called Visceral Osteopathy. Our organs are our viscera and they all work together to keep us healthy. When some organ systems are struggling it affects the health and function of the whole body.
HOMEOSTASIS AND IT'S ROLE IN MAINTAINING OUR HEALTH
Our bodies are constantly trying to maintain a balance, this balance is called homeostasis. Think of a seesaw or scales, where there are shifts in one system and this creates a shift in another system and so on, until a functional balance is achieved. Ill health can occur when this balance cannot be achieved due to barriers to health; either physical (within the structures), emotional, or chemical stress factors. It is the role of the osteopath to find and resolve the barriers to homeostasis and therefore good health.
Make An Appointment
We are available for bookings 24 hours a day. Call us now on 03 443 OSTE or enter you details below and we will call you back. Our office hours are Tues to Friday. 03 443 OSTE (6783)