“Does osteopathic medicine reduce anxiety?”
I'm trying to find ways to reduce my anxiety because it has become so severe. I don't want to take medications at all either. What therapies should I look at to help? Can osteopathic medicine help me?
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Anxiety during these times is unfortunately more common than one might expect. So to start you are not alone. When struggling with anxiety, exercise, meditation, quality diet, and a good therapist is all first line. Osteopathy, may add another dimension through addressing old physical or mental trauma that is imprinted in one’s body as a synergistic approach.
Osteopathic treatment balances the physical tensions and strains around structures related to the autonomic nervous system, which most people know as the balance between the fight/flight vs rest/digest parts of the nervous system. This can improve the baseline nervous system tone, and improve anxiety and sleep.
