TRUE ROOTS OSTEOPATHY
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Osteopathic Medicine was founded by Andrew Taylor Still M.D. in 1874. Dr. Still was a surgeon. He was a pioneer who went searching for answers about how the body heals. He developed a hands-on healing modality, now osteopathy, and started the first school of osteopathic medicine.
Osteopathy is based on four fundamental principles:
1. The body is a unit in mind, body and spirit.
2. Structure and Function are interrelated.
3. The body has self-regulating, and self-healing capacity.
4. Rational treatment is based on the understanding of these principles.
Osteopathy is unique in that the goal of the practitioner is to find the Health not the disease. Osteopathy has been passed down from teacher to student for generations with hands over hands teaching. Osteopathic physicians are fully licensed physicians in the United States. They attend four years of medical school and then go on to do residency training in any specialty that they choose. Only a very small percentage choose to practice traditional osteopathic medicine.
How does Dr. Hancock practice osteopathic medicine?
Dr. Hancock has an integrated approach to each patient. She has a gentle touch when practicing osteopathic manipulation. Generally, the patient will lay on their back and Dr. Hancock will apply gentle manual manipulation to the body while receiving feedback from the body and the patient to adjust when needed. Generally, people feel very relaxed and sometimes even sleep during a session of manipulation. No two sessions are the same. Dr. Hancock works to align the patient with their deepest level of Health to move through the challenges that they are currently facing. Often people think that Dr. Hancock only works with the musculoskeletal system, but she often is working with any issue that a family doctor might come across to give a wholistic and integrated treatment. She can feel imbalances in any system of the body. It is common for her to feel imbalances in the nervous system, immune system, endocrine/hormonal system, gastroenterology system, cardiovascular system, respiratory systems and emotional system. Sometimes all that is need is a hands on osteopathic treatment and at other times Dr. Hancock will give recommendations on nutritional changes, supplements, proper rest, exercises, stretching, meditation, etc to get patients to their optimal health.

Conditions that benefit from Osteopathy
Concussions
Spinal cord injuries
Traumatic Brain Injury
Memory decline
Migranes
Dysautonmia
POTS
Chronic Fatigue syndrome
Lyme Disease
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinsons Disease
Occipital neuralgia
TMJ
PTSD
Vertigo
Dizziness
Long COVID
Mold illness
SIBO/dysbiosis
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Anxiety
Depression
Insomnia
Chronic stress
Emotional burnout
Post partum depression
Scoliosis
Spinal stenosis
Back pain
Neck pain
Sacral pain
Headaches
Pelvic pain
Joint pain
Shoulder pain
Ankle pain
Elbow pain
Knee pain
Hip pain
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Foot pain
Plantar fascists
Rheumatoid arthritis
Pregnancy related back pain
Pregnancy related pelvic pain
Pregnancy related sacral pain
Post surgical recovery
Postpartum recovery
IBS
IBD
Constipation
Diarrhea
GERD
Bladder irritability
Hormone imbalances
Thyroid disease
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Menstrual irregularities
PCOS
PMS
Dysmenorrhea
Infertility
Pediatric plagiocephally
Pediatric reflux
ADD
Autism
Club foot
Latching difficulty in infants
Pediatric sleep difficulties
Developmental delay
Learning disability
Recurrent Ear infections
Bronchitis/ Pneumonia
Sinus infections
Poor circulation