Healthy by Nature opened its doors for business for the first time yesterday (January 28, 2015) at its Northwest Calgary location. The new Osteopathic therapy clinic has been in the works for months now, under the watch of owner and Osteopathic manual practitioner Raphaelle Strub, but the new holistic health clinic opened up to its first handful of Osteopathy patients on January 28th.
Osteopathic manual therapist Chloe Sardin says the day was a success and it was business as usual for her. With a week since she left Intrinsi, another Osteopathic therapy clinic in the city, Chloe expressed her happiness at getting back to treating the people who come to her for help with their health issues.
Chloe leaves Intrinsi after nearly four years of service with the growing Osteopath clinic. She joined the “English Osteopaths” (as it was known at the time) in 2011 and saw many changes at the 17th avenue-based healthy clinic. “My goals as an Osteopathic therapist at the time were to continue developing myself as a practitioner, to continue learning and developing skill in the field of biodynamic Osteopathy, and to teach in some capacity. I have done all three of those at Intrinsi, and I wish to continue them at Healthy By Nature.”
Clinic owner Raphaelle Strub joins Calgary’s growing number of European-born Osteopathic therapists, having moved to the city this past summer from Quebec, after practicing Osteopathic manual therapy at a clinic in Montreal for two years. Before that, Raphaelle practiced Osteopathy in and around Lyon, France, where both she and Chloe each studied Osteopathy* for six years, it turns out.
The two Healthy by Nature therapists say they invision bringing a few more practitioners onboard, including a Naturopathic Doctor and another holistic therapist, so that patients can have access to a broader spectrum of treatment options at the clinic. They advise anyone wishing to make an appointment with them to visit their Calgary Osteopathic therapy website and book online, or to give them a call (403) 452-0029.
* When asked why they aren’t simply calling themselves “Osteopaths” as they do in France, the two tell me that they are forbidden from calling themselves such in some provinces of Canada. The terms “Osteopathic Physician” and “Osteopath” were purchased by the medical regulatory college for physicians and surgeons in the United States years ago, and with Canada now following their advice, that regulatory college now requires all practitioners in Canada who practice osteopathy and who are not doctors trained in the entire scope of medicine to refer to themselves as Osteopathic manual practitioners or therapists, instead.
