Ostéopathie Sandra Lizotte

01/31/2026

L’Ostéopathe! le mécanicien du corps 🥰

“Pianos are the Product of a Factory, so are osteopaths. The osteopathic factories are [labeled] colleges. There are seven between the Pacific and Boston Harbor. Each college has a conscience. Its faculty knows that “Osteopathy is knowledge or it is nothing.” Education implies training. Training should be directed to the end it purports to serve. Man’s engineer should naturally be trained in mechanics- human mechanics. This is what an osteopathic student catches in his brain-bucket at these intellectual fountains. The mental digestion of the student is in high speed for four years. He receives the hunch that the human machine requires a master-mechanic. He is determined to qualify and he does. He is not taught that a drug store is the beacon light to physical salvation, or that life operates except through structure. No chicks are hatched from scrambled eggs. The osteopath is instructed to find and correct the something wrong when life’s harp is out of tune.”

Quote and Image: Webster, George V., “Something Wrong.” 1918. Pages 56-57. [1997.42.689]

01/31/2026

Aide à diminuer les tensions de la chaîne postérieure qui sont responsables pour les douleurs du bas du dos!!!!

🌷🧘🌷🧘‍♀️It helps to Alleviates stiffness in lower back and backaches. It Stretches hamstrings, calves, and inner thighs, and Relieves arthritis pain in hips and knees.

01/18/2026

Décrit tellement bien ce que c’est l’ostéopathie! Un dialogue entre les mains, le corps et toute l’histoire de la personne 🥰

I have always experienced the body less as a machine to be repaired and more as a living landscape to be understood.

When someone lies on my table, I am not only meeting body systems, I am feeling weather patterns. Old storms that never fully cleared. Rivers that altered their course after injury. Soil that has compacted after too many seasons of holding everything together. I feel valleys shaped by years of compensation, ridgelines built through endurance, and places where the ground hardened because it had to.

Pathology, to me, is not a flaw in the terrain; it is evidence of survival.

In traditional medicine, we often separate disease from pathology. Disease is the diagnosis, the name, the category, the thing that shows up on a chart. Pathology is the lived expression of how the body has responded over time. It is what happened in the tissues, the nervous system, the breath, and posture, long before or long after a diagnosis was given.

In my work, I don’t see these as opposing ideas. I see them as layers of the same story.

Inflammation is not the enemy. It is the body lighting a signal fire, saying something here needs care. Pain is not punishment. It is communication, a spoken language we are still learning to listen to. Scar tissue is not a mistake. It is the record of where healing once had to happen quickly, imperfectly, and with great courage.

So many of the conditions we meet on the table are not isolated events. Low back pain does not live only in the lumbar spine. TMJ does not belong solely to the jaw. Chronic fatigue does not exist only in blood work. These patterns ripple outward, shaping posture, breath, sleep, mood, and the way someone moves through the world.

When I place my hands on a body, I am not trying to erase pathology or override a diagnosis. I am listening to how the body adapted around it. I am asking what this body needed to become in order to survive. What strategies it built and what stories live in the fascia, waiting to be met with tenderness and understanding rather than force.

This is where bodywork becomes something more than technique. It becomes a relationship.

Our work is not about fixing the landscape; it is about restoring pathways so circulation can return, sensation can soften, and the nervous system can remember what it feels like to rest. It is about creating enough safety for the body to shift, not because it was told to, but because it finally can.

Pathology is not where the body failed; it is where the body is working the hardest.

This is the heart of the book I am writing. A pathology text that does not separate disease from lived experience, but weaves them together. A way of understanding diagnoses alongside the adaptive patterns they create in real bodies. A way of teaching pathology through the hands of the bodyworker, where clinical understanding and deep listening exist side by side.

12/02/2025

Mind over matter!!!

Your body is listening to every thought you think. When your mind is filled with worry, fear, or tension, your cells react instantly by releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. These chemicals prepare the body for danger, tightening muscles, increasing heart rate, and suppressing healing processes. Over time, this constant biochemical stress can weaken immunity, disrupt digestion, damage sleep, and drain your energy.

But the reverse is just as powerful. When you think calming, hopeful, or peaceful thoughts, your brain shifts into a healing state. It starts producing serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins—natural compounds that reduce inflammation, lower blood pressure, boost immunity, and support cellular repair. Your nervous system relaxes, your breath deepens, and your body returns to balance.

The mind communicates with the body through an unbroken chemical conversation. Every emotion sends signals; every thought becomes a biochemical message. This is why mindset, gratitude, breathwork, and emotional awareness are not just “mental” practices, they are physiological medicine.

Your thoughts can create stress or create healing. They can tear the body down or help rebuild it. When you understand this connection, you realize you’re not powerless, your mind is your most potent pharmacy, and it responds to every thought you choose.

11/28/2025

Un poem écrit par des maîtres!!! 😆

Osteopaths often included poems in their Journals. Here is one example:

Image: 2010.02.1645.183- The Wizard of Oz-teopathy; No Date. poem from unidentified journal or magazine attached to page 41 of the Osteopathy Scrapbook, paper laminated, article titled "The Wizard of Oz-Teopathy", poem on osteopathy; 7 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h). Paper yellowed, glued to the paper, entire paper is laminated.

06/22/2025

Vous comprenez que c’est absolument nécessaire de voir votre mâchoire dans le rétablissement de votre équilibre 🤔

Misaligned jaws have an impact on:

Muscles - A misaligned jaw increases muscle strain throughout your face, head, neck, and shoulders. This increased strain is responsible for a host of symptoms such as headaches, backaches, ear ringing, and vertigo.

Posture - A misaligned jaw will change the posture of your head. This, In turn, will place undue stress on your spine. This strain on your spine impacts your entire posture and can lead to chronic pain, increased muscle strain, and affect your entire body.

Nerves - When your muscles are strained, they can lead to nerve pinching. The nerves in your face do not operate separately from the nerves throughout your entire body. A pinched nerve in your face or jaw can lead to numbness and tingling throughout your entire torso. More importantly, critical nerves that govern balance may also become impacted.

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06/14/2025

One day when A. T. Still was about ten years old. He made a swing of his father’s old plow line. However, he had a headache, and the pain was too much to swing comfortably. So, he dropped the line and rested with his neck against the rope, and soon his headache was gone. As he grew his profession, he improved on this method, creating a device to rest his head on instead of rope. He states that this event “may be said to be my first discovery in the science of Osteopathy.” -Autobiography of Andrew Taylor Still [1982.705.01] Photo: Tension Headaches [2011.36.118]

06/12/2025

Ça se ressemble mais ce n’est pas la même chose!!!

05/28/2025

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-vagus-nerve-could-influence-physical-and-mental-health/

The healing potential of the brain’s most interconnected nerve intrigues researchers

05/28/2025

En ostéopathie nous pouvons aider à réguler et soigner le nerf vague!!! Prenez un rendez-vous maintenant 😉

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-vagus-nerve-could-influence-physical-and-mental-health/

04/29/2025

La complexité à son meilleure mais assurément nous pouvons aider!!!! Il ne faut jamais oublier tout ce qu’il y a dans nos mains sur lequel nous allons agir ☺️ Tout les différents tissus en jeu 🤔

Cranial Nerves: What catches your eye?

Medical Illustration: Peter M Lawrence

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