Best Osteopath Antioch Near Me

4worldlovers: I enjoy helping patients with problems associated with everyday life - like headache, sinusitis, heart burn, shoulder pain, and more. I have also found that I work well with medical problems that no one else has had success with.

There is personal meaning in treating my patients like family, and am honored to be invited into my patients' lives to help them with their struggles. I have always taken a broad-minded approach to healthcare and find that this is often what brings results.

I find value in Listening to my patients, and in using my Hands to "Listen" to the Body to determine where the Body is trying to heal itself from, and also to note "How Well" the Body is able to do this, and to use this information to help patients progress in their Health.

From this unique osteopathic perspective, by engaging your body's innate self-correcting forces, I help bring about changes that you can build upon in getting well. I use my skills as a Family Physician, and Osteopathic Manipulation Specialist, along with Sleep, Exercise, Diet and Self-Care approaches to help you with your goals. I have been in practice since 1986.

I provide Cranial Manipulation, Balanced Ligamentous Tension Technique, Still Technique and Counter-Strain Manipulation - all non-force manipulation - that is gentle and effective for the newborn, athlete, desk worker, or fragile elder . My goal is a gentle release of the nervous system, organs, bones, and fascial planes which contain the muscles, blood, lymphatic, organs and nervous system elements. When old patterns are released, this can affect the state of balance and function of the entire body, bringing you towards health.

The Study and Mentorship in Osteopathic Medicine covers the wide range of subjects in clinical medicine - and when combined with a rigorous and intensive self-study in osteopathic manipulation, the anatomy of Life, and living in a manner to develop a sense of touch that is required to bring about healing, can bring lasting results.

I do not know of another approach that combines contemporary medical sciences with the refined art of a healing presence and touch that brings such profound healing as this - but it does require a full medical education and the learned ability to "listen" to and touch the patient in an anatomically precise manner.

As traumatic, metabolic and emotional injuries are known to cause muscle, disc and joint pain, I regularly work with patients who have a wide range of musculoskeletal pain from general spinal pain, scoliosis, sciatica or neuritis. For many of these patients who are not experiencing healing, identifying other disruptive influences often helps bring success.

I treat a lot problems associated with stance, gait, and posture, and in determining how your feet and posture are associated with your health. I can readily identify problems in your arch supports, Leg-Foot Orthotics or Leg Length discrepancy pads, and provide instant feedback on your footwear, stance and gait and how these affect your ability to heal.

I have experience in helping frustrated parents with their children who are suffering from Sleep problems, Torticollis, Feeding Issues and Ear Infections. I regularly provide parents much sought-after advice regarding their 'teens with ill-fitting dental appliances, palate expanders, or ALF appliances.

I currently work with several local dentists in the modification / management of new or existing dental appliances. These patients do not only present with musculoskeletal pain, headache, or with TMJ pain, but also with swallowing / chewing disorders or digestive disorders, but not uncommonly, with a full spectrum of musculoskeletal, neurologic, psychiatric, immune, allergic and sleep conditions that could not, intellectually, be considered as "dental" in origin. Listening to your Body is the key: Sometimes one small change can affect your healing a lot.

Visual problems and eye strain can also cause problems in Healing. I provide precise cranial manipulation, and have found that simple and easy office testing of your vision can provide critical feedback on corrective visual solutions that are key to your recovery. We can evaluate not only the refractive indices of your prescription or over-the-counter glasses, contact lenses, or sunglasses, but also evaluate the effects of tint, and work with your work space environment. I have several excellent eye care providers with whom I work.

4worldlovers: Margaret Salmon graduated from Washington School of Medicine, and received an MPH from Harvard University. She has taught at Toronto General Hospital, and has spent years involved in Global Medicine in South America and Africa. Her special interests include Ultrasound-guided Nerve Blocks and innovated Pain Management solutions in Africa. At Vital Pain Management, she is chief in Education and Training.

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Sukanya Holmes received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Rhode Island. Afterwards, she went on to receive her medical degree at New York Medical College. She travelled from the East Coast to the West Coast, where she did her internship at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, then completed her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Washington in Seattle.

She was first Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2002. For 10 years, she was employed and also became a partner at Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. Family issues took her overseas to Paris, where she involved herself in volunteer work. She has been back in 2021 to join Vital Pain Management.

Dr. Janet Burns graduated her medical and osteopathy school training in Ohio, and did her medical internship and residency in Ohio. She is board-certified in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, as well as Family Medicine.

After private practice in Michigan, she has taught Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine for six years, then at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo for seven years. After private practice in California, she joined Vital Pain Management in Walnut Creek to provide pain relief using osteopathic manipulation to help lessen dependence on pain medications.

Dr. Daniels received her medical degree from UC San Francisco, She joined the US Navy, where she did her neurology residency at Walter Reed Army Hospital & the Naval Medical Center, at Bethesda, Washington, D.C. While serving in the US Navy, she served as a General Medical Officer on the light aircraft carrier SS Bonhomme Richard, out of San Diego. After her tour, she returned to UCSF, where she completed a Fellowship in Movement Disorders. She joined the Neurology staff at Kaiser, then did private practice in San Francisco, before joining Vital Pain Management in Walnut Creek and Pleasanton.