Whole Person Care
At the Parakletos Osteopathic Clinic you will receive comprehensive, quality care. Every initial encounter involves a full medical history and physical exam. Based on this thorough evaluation, our clinic can provide experienced, specific osteopathic manipulation as well as a variety of other services.
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine is “hands-on” care. Osteopathic physicians are uniquely trained to use their hands to engage ligaments, tendons, muscles, bones, joints, and viscera in a precise manner to generate a therapeutic effect. There are multiple treatment modalities that fall under the category of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, or OMM. At the Parakletos Osteopathic clinic, the NMM/OMM specialists offer individualized treatments that may include any of the OMM techniques below.
- Myofascial/Soft tissue
- Counterstrain
- Muscle Energy
- High Velocity Low Amplitude
- Still/Littlejohn
- Facilitated Positional Release
- Osteopathy in the Cranial Field
- Balanced Ligamentous Tension
- Visceral
- Biodynamic
Other Services
In addition to OMM, some conditions may require other therapeutic modalities that are offered at our clinic. These include:
- Kinesiotaping
- TENS unit
- Triggerpoint injections
- Large joint injections
- Prolotherapy
- Heel lifts
- Topical analgesics
- PEMF
- Skateboarding assessments