Cranial Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Specialists of Maine
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday - 8am to 5pm
Contact: (207) 782-2223
Allow the Full Expression of Health Through Cranial Osteopathy
Andrew Haltof DO, NMM / OMM - Practitioner of biodynamic cranial osteopathy
Meet Andrew Haltof, DO
Osteopathic Medicine was founded on the principle that a person is one whole functional unit - body, mind, and spirit. Structure (anatomy) and function (physiology) are seen as united and inseparable, and the power and the wisdom for healing come from within the patient.
Dr. Haltof graduated from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford Maine in 1993. He did his post-graduate training at Saint Barnabas Hospital in Bronx N.Y.
He is board certified in Neuromusculoskeletal
Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine NMM/OMM, since
1999. He is on the faculty of the Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation and teaches with the "A Still-Sutherland Study Group", as well as a Biodynamic Study Group.
Over the course of the past 20 years, Dr. Haltof's practice has been informed almost exclusively by the biodynamic model of Osteopathy. Dr. Haltof has been in private practice in Brunswick and then Auburn Maine since 1995.
WHAT IS OSTEOPATHY?
Traditional Osteopathic Medicine is a philosophic approach to health, looking inside the patient for the force of healing. As the pioneering approach to true holistic medicine, it views an individual as a triune being, body, mind, and spirit. If we find strain in one part, all other parts must change their point of balance to compensate for that strain. Traditional Osteopathic Medicine addresses healing in all three areas, to facilitate the expression of health.
IS OSTEOPATHY FOR ME?
Everyone benefits in some way from an osteopathic treatment. We see treatment as a means of restoring health, as opposed to fighting with disease. By working with the body's physiology in the removal of obstructions to normal physiologic function and the expression of health, the body's health will overwhelm the disease. In this way, osteopathic medicine truly is preventive medicine.
Our goal is to bring the whole patient, Body, Mind and Spirit, to a state of balance...
... so the inherent forces within the body can begin a therapeutic process. This process will go on generally for days or even weeks. A few days following a treatment are needed for your body to integrate structural changes before we can reevaluate your progress.
Holistic Healing
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
has proven effective for treating many medical conditions, including:
Women's Health
Musculoskeletal Complaints of Pregnancy, Premenstrual Syndrome, Pain associated with Osteoporosis
Pediatrics
Developmental Delays, Sensory Integration Disorder, ADHD, Infants with Colic, Otitis Media, Asthma/Bronchitis, Autism, GERD
Medicine
Pneumonia, Upper Respiratory, Infections, Lymphedema, Hypertension, Anxiety, Insomnia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Neuromusculoskeletal
Headaches, Post Traumatic Headache, Post Concussive Syndrome, TMJ Disorder, Head Trauma, Complications from Stroke, Complications of Parkinson's Disease, Osteoarthritis, Back Pain, Scoliosis, Sciatica, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Myofacial Pain Syndromes
" I am simply trying to teach you what you are; to get you to realize your right to health, and when you see the cures wrought here, after all other means have failed, you can but know that the foundation of my work is laid on nature's rock."
Autobiography of A. T. Still
