Seth’s approach to care
Motion is essential to life and represents the free expression of health as it is reflected in our physical, emotional, and energetic body. Motion must be present in both our physical form and within the smallest recesses inside us; the spaces between organs, lungs, vessels, neural sheaths, membranes, and fascial connections that provide interconnectedness throughout our bodies. When free motion of any structure is lost or inhibited, whether by infection, injury or prolonged states of emotional overwhelm, we begin the process of compensation. From this point, we are vulnerable to dysfunction, decline and disease processes. My approach allows for the restoration of motion in the body so that we may be properly animated and ambulated, and freed of the burden we are otherwise forced to carry when we cannot release the poor health weighing upon our shoulders.
Personal history
I spent nearly a decade of my life working as an Osteopathic Physician Aide, directly under the supervision and guidance of 4 different Osteopathic Physicians. In this position, I developed an understanding of the impact of pain, injury, illness and the difficulties of restoring health when the condition cannot fully be remedied by Medical intervention and treatment.
At the age of 30, my life was permanently altered by a serious motor vehicle accident. Suffering multiple structural injuries to my head, neck and spine, I underwent four reconstructive surgeries, hundreds of hours of rehabilitation, and spent many months learning to walk and regain enough function to live with quite significant disabilities. After almost a year in a body-brace, I underwent additional surgery and was told I would not return to a “normal” life ever. Devastated, but refusing to accept this, I applied the knowledge I had gained while working with the Doctors I had assisted before being injured. I developed a myriad of self care evaluation and interventions and fought my way through disabling pain, fatigue, worry, anxiety and depression. After 6 years of struggle, I had recovered enough of my health to attend school so that I could help others.
This experience added a unique perspective that reflects into my approach and the tools I utilize in helping others suffering with challenging or declining health concerns. By personally experiencing how time effects muscle tone, posture, metabolism, chemistry, attitude, spirit and ultimately, self-esteem, I acquired knowledge that I could not have been taught in any college or with any degree. I’ve learned how to reverse the effects of injury and time upon physical health and human spirit.
Bringing this knowledge to the clients I see provides a cutting edge in restoring health, hope and independence, teaching self-reliance and self-awareness techniques to individuals facing some of the most complex and intractable cases imaginable.
My reputation propels a constant influx of new clients and the turnover of satisfied clients. For this, I’m known as the “Magician of Marin”, to which I respond “The magic is all yours. Learning and using the tricks I will teach you makes you the Magician. I am simply a good mechanic doing my job.”
Credentials and experience
I graduated from the Canadian College of Osteopathy in 2008 and earned my Diploma in Osteopathic Manual Practice in 2011 from the College D’ Etudes Osteopathiques located in Montreal, QC.
Skills utilized in my approach to care
Strain-Counter Strain, Facilitated Positional Release, Muscle Energy Technique, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Visceral Normalization, Mechanical Link, Bio-Dynamic Principles and Direction of Energy.
Articles and books written
The effects of Osteopathic Manual Treatment on symptoms of Pudendal Nerve Entrapment. A Chronological Quasi-Experimental study. June 2011. Honorable mention – Montreal Osteopathic International Jury.