About Us
Biography
Allix Devenish, Osteopathic Manual Therapist.
Allix is a classically trained Osteopath from Canada, educated at The University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario) and the Canadian Academy of Osteopathy (Hamilton, Ontario). Practicing for over twelve years in both Kinesiology and Osteopathy, she has gained respect by formulating an incredibly successful treatment protocol granting her an official spot on the Trinidad and Tobago Sports Medicine team at the Pan American Games and Junior Pan American Games in 2015. She has a unique approach to rehabilitation applying Eastern ideology therapeutics with a Western medicine consideration.
Osteopathy
What is Manual Osteopathy?
Manual Osteopathic Practitioners are educated and trained to work exclusively without the use of drugs or surgery by using manual methods for structural assessment and treatment. This is the predominant method of osteopathic education worldwide. An Osteopathic practitioner in this context is different from an Osteopathic physician (DO).
The Osteopathic theory is that imbalances in the human structure contribute to or are directly related to the development and/or maintenance of disease. Anatomy and physiology is the foundation of Osteopathic treatment. Practitioners recognize that the human body is self-regulating and self-healing – and will strive for health if given a chance. The role is to encourage self-healing capacity through manual treatment – to convert the physical into the physiological. We allow nature to do its job of removing any and all obstacles and obstructions that will interfere with the proper nutrition and drainage of the body’s tissue. Understanding and adjusting the anatomical unity of the human structure is our job.