Christine Johnston: Registered Massage Therapist, (Osteopathy, Current Study)

Christine Johnston is a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) and currently in her 4th year of Osteopathic studies at the Canadian College of Osteopathy in Toronto, Ontario.  She graduated with honours from the Canadian College of Massage & Hydrotherapy in 2007 and has a degree from the University of Guelph.   She is registered with the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario and is a member of the Registered Massage Therapists Association of Ontario and the Ontario Association of Osteopaths.

Christine uses therapeutic massage and osteopathic techniques to provide her clients with the best treatment aimed at providing lasting relief of common musculoskeletal pain and dysfunctions by treating the body as a whole.  She looks forward to meeting every new patient and guiding them on a journey to health and wellbeing.

 

Osteopathy 

“Osteopathy is a natural medicine which aims to restore function in the body by treating the causes of pain and imbalance. To achieve this goal the Osteopathic Manual Practitioner relies on the quality and finesse of his/her palpation and works with the position, mobility and quality of the tissues.”

Osteopathy was founded by Andrew Taylor Still (1874), an American doctor who was disappointed with the ability of Western medicine to heal.  Osteopathy believes that the body has an innate and natural ability to heal itself.  When the blood supply to an area of the body is obstructed, only then does the body begin to compensate.  Compensation leads to pain and disease.

Osteopathic assessment and treatment focuses on removing the obstructions within bones, organs or tissues that are misaligned.  Osteopathic Manual Practitioners assess and treat the whole body with a gentle hands-on approach.  Treatment is aimed at finding and removing the cause of one’s pain not just the symptoms.

Treatment is designed to maintain, improve and restore the normal physiological function of interrelated body structures and systems, enhancing the body’s natural ability to heal itself.  Osteopathy is beneficial for all systems of the body; musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive and nervous systems and people of all ages.  Treatment methods include soft tissue manipulation, osteopathic articular techniques, cranial sacral therapy and visceral manipulation.