Amy Shantz – Osteopathic Manual Therapist

Amy partners with people to optimize function, performance and wellbeing. She does this by working with people’s whole being through the physical body in a way that values and works with each person’s uniqueness and experience and the effects on posture and function. Her hands on therapy engages body tissues and structures from the tip of the head to the toe, systems and connections, working towards all moving in health. This includes working with tiny particle sensory receptors all over our body that pick-up information about what we experience and feel. They initiate messages that travel to our brain and affect how our brain makes our body’s tissues, including our muscles, function.

Amy has participated in sports since she was a kid and played 1 year of college volleyball. She’s a certified coach in a few sports and a volleyball referee. After teaching an introductory wellness course at a college overseas, Amy began her career in healthcare as a kinesiologist in 2000. She came to love hands-on therapeutic approaches while becoming a Fascial Stretch Therapist. Amy subsequently completed a massage therapy diploma, and then her post-degree diploma in Osteopathic Manual Practice (DOMP) which consisted of five years of courses and exams plus an advanced course and a research paper and presentation. She has also taken many other continuing education courses and mentorship from a wide variety of medical and allied health professionals.

Help manage and recover from:

• Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA)
• Work, leisure and athletic injuries
• Stiffness and Pain
• Weakness
• Poor circulation, mild lymphedema
• Healing of scars or adhesions of old scars
• Digestive issues
• Breathing difficulties
• Osteoarthritis, SI dysfunction, MS, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue
• Concussion
• Tongue, oral and throat challenges
• Post dental/orthodontic aggravation

Help achieve goals:

• Increase strength
• Improve posture
• Increase range of motion
• Feel better
• Do activities more easily
• Improve breathing and sleep

For a fuller description of what Amy can offer and the types of approaches and techniques that she is trained in click here.