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Ortho-Bionomy

Ortho-Bionomy

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

— Deepak Chopra

Ortho-Bionomy® is an incredibly effective, yet gentle way to work with :

  • structural alignment
  • relieving acute and chronic pain and tension patterns
  • relieving restrictions from injuries and surgeries

Ortho-Bionomy® has its roots in Osteopathy and is based on the body’s own inherent ability to correct and heal. Through gentle, yet very precise, positioning, neurological reflexes are accessed that cause the body to self-correct.  Tension patterns are disrupted and released and the structure of the body can re-organize. The body can find more balance and most often pain is relieved and movement is restored.

Benefits of Ortho-Bionomy®

  • helps to break the pain cycle
  • can relieve pain and discomfort
  • helps with recovery from injuries, accidents, and surgeries
  • can reduce muscle tension, optimize structural alignment and increase the range of motion
  • helps to improve circulation and promotes relaxation

Ortho-Bionomy Boulder, CoMy own experience of the power of Ortho-Bionomy®:

I found my way to this work through the profound effect it had on my own body.  I have been dealing with chronic low back pain since my son was born over 10 years ago.   During that time I had phases where I was not able to stand up and was almost non-functional for several weeks at a time.  I have also had phases of minor pain but need to always be careful about which activities I was able to do.  Then, about 1 1/2 years ago, I received my first session of Ortho-Bionomy.  After that one session, I was pain-free for the first time in years.  It literally felt like a miracle to me.
I have received lots and lots of bodywork of different kinds in my almost 20 years as a bodyworker. I had never before received any work that made that much difference in one session in terms of physical pain.  I did not completely stay pain-free; my pain level still goes up and down.  Since that session, though, it has not even come close to the level of pain I experienced on a regular basis before.  And when my back does flare up a bit, it tends to resolve much, much faster. I continue to receive sessions and other major physical issues in my body have shifted. Because of the extent of change, I have experienced in myself and the lasting effect of it I have immense trust in this work.

More about how Ortho-Bionomy® works:

The term Ortho-Bionomy can be translated as:” The correct application of the laws of life”.

The originator of Ortho-Bionomy, Arthur Pauls, DO, talked about self-corrective reflexes in the body. That means that the body has an innate ability to heal and correct itself.  Just like our skin knows how to heal a wound and our bones know how to grow back together, our whole body knows how to organize its structure and find balance through the nervous system.

Ortho-Bionomy Treatment Boulder, CoSometimes, though, the body’s ability to stay in balance is compromised by stress, injuries, accidents, surgeries, improper posture, emotional experience or just overload.  When the body is out of balance it adapts as best as it can, but in the process might develop patterns of stress that add to the imbalance.  Ortho-Bionomy works to re-educate dysfunctional patterns and restore balance and normal functioning.

As an Osteopath, Arthur Pauls understood that the natural range of motion in a joint requires balance in the opposing muscles that move that joint. Muscles on one side of the joint lengthen, while muscles on the other side shorten. Sometimes, after an injury, one muscle group becomes over-shortened and cannot respond to the internal signals from the nervous system trying to achieve balance. Then the opposing muscles remain chronically overstretched and this imbalance becomes a habitual pattern.  Range of motion and comfort is compromised.

Often, in an attempt to avoid pain, the body contracts even further and includes surrounding muscles to prevent movement, so the holding is reinforced. Immobilization may solve the pain problem at the moment, but it also sets up compensatory patterns and holding patterns that become more and more limiting.

Arthur Pauls realized that if you remind the body of what it is doing – if you slightly overstretch the overstretched muscle and slightly shorten the constricted muscle, then the body gets to recognize what it’s doing and the habit of the patterns gets disrupted and often the body will move toward self-correction.

Part of the self-recognition comes from the muscle signals of being stretched and shortened and part comes from the proprioceptors in the nervous system.  Proprioceptive nerves inform the body about its position and regulate positioning and movement.  In this way, Ortho-Bionomy can affect profound change by helping the nervous system re-organize and affect the physical structure of the body.

Symptoms that can be addressed include:

  • low back pain/neck pain/upper back pain
  • joint pain and restricted motion
  • scoliosis
  • sciatica
  • whiplash and head injuries
  • rotator cuff injuries
  • TMJ
  • Rheumatoid and osteoarthritis
  • broken bones
  • sports injuries
  • tennis elbow/tendonitis
  • sprained ankles and wrists
  • foot pain/plantar fasciitis/bunions
  • carpal tunnel syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • frozen shoulder
  • issues after surgeries/scar tissue/restricted movement

What does an Ortho-Bionomy® session look like?

If I focus on only Ortho-Bionomy, you do not need to remove any clothes other than for comfort.  You will mostly be lying on a bodywork table and I use gentle positioning and movement of your body to work with specific symptoms. We might also practice some movements sitting or standing and I might give you exercises to do at home.


boulder, co ortho-bionomyBoulder workout: Ortho-Bionomy

Aimee Heckel / Writer
Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer

Ines Manteuffel works with Matt Goodhart during an Ortho-Bionomy session at Renewal Healing Arts. Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle, non-invasive, osteopathically-based form of body therapy for chronic stress, injuries, and pains or problems associated with postural and structural imbalances.
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For more information on Ortho-Bionomy® here are links to some articles and a video:

View video of Gary Lee Williams with Carol Alt

A Wholesome You, Ortho-Bionomy self-care article by Rosa Rodruige

The Development of Ortho-Bionomy by Louann Overmeyer

Dancing in the Stillpoint

Massage Magazine Article by Luanne Overmyer (2008)

Yoga Journal Article (2004)

 

Ortho-Bionomy® is a registered trademark of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International, Inc, and is used with permission.

 

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I was really pleased with the results of my 5-month old daughter having six sessions with Ines. Before we came in, my daughter, Cailyn, held her head to the right side much more often than the left and seemed to have a sensitive spot at the back of her head. At times she had a hard time calming down or going to sleep. After Ines helped to release some tension, we noticed her movements were much more symmetrical, the extra sensitivity at the back of her head was gone and there was a dramatic diff… Read more
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I started seeing Ines for massage therapy, but quickly found that she offers much, much more. I’ve continued working with her during a time of stressful life changes because her unique ability to combine massage with other powerful therapeutic techniques provides such a deeply nourishing experience. Ines is a healer with remarkable skill, insight and genuine warmth… her approach is empowering! This work integrates support for mind, body and spirit… helps me connect to my inner strengths…… Read more
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Before we started working with Ines, my son was experiencing some pronounced anxiety, hyperactivity, inability to follow classroom expectations and sensory processing challenges. Through cranio sacral therapy, Ines was able to significantly help reduce my son’s challenging behaviors. He was noticeably calmer, better focused and less anxious in the days following a session with Ines. We even saw improvements in his fine motor skills and a significant decrease in his emotional meltdowns. Our … Read more
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I am a creative and ambitious person with a tendency to work too hard, fill my calendar with too much, and drink way too much coffee to get through it all. Overall I have a healthy lifestyle, but my stressful (and fun) lifestyle is hard on my nervous system. When I saw Ines, I was looking for an enjoyable massage that might relax some knots I carry in my calves and shoulders. What I received was far more than I could have imagined. I received the enjoyable massage for sure, but Ines also introdu… Read more
Myka M.
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I got into a car accident in which I suffered impact from significant whiplash. I worked extensively with both a neuromuscular massage therapist and a chiropractor. After one year of care, I noticed that I had sustained injury. This is when I began to work with Ines. I specifically sought out working with Ines because of her combined expertise in massage, craniosacral therapy, and trauma re-negotiation. I knew that the combination of these three modalities, given from an expert practitioner, cou… Read more
Blythe
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Last spring I experienced severe low back pain for the first time in my life, where I could not sleep, I could not sit or work.  I went to see Ines for Ortho-Bionomy sessions to find relief.  I was expecting that fire must be fought with fire – that only deep pressure would make a difference to pain this intense.  When Ines started to work with subtle movements I thought I got roped into some Boulder BS, that this surely wouldn’t effect any change.  To my surprise I found that after 2 sessions m… Read more

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