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.

Biography

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.