Restore Balance and Musculoskeletal well being.

Richard L. Van Buskirk, D.O., Ph.D.
2900 S. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34239
(941) 924-1729

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What is Osteopathic Medicine?

Dr. Van Buskirk In The News
 

EVERYONE WANTS AND DESERVES A HEALTHY BODY that’s able to rise to the daily necessities and challenges of life. Strength, flexibility and balance are the means to achieve that goal. But too often, disease, trauma, pain and lifestyle deficiencies get in the way. The focus of Dr. Richard Van Buskirk’s medical practice is to help the individual restore neural and musculoskeletal health. The result is a healthy life, physically and emotionally.

The sources of an individual’s neural and musculoskeletal problems are determined using skillful neurological, osteopathic and orthopedic diagnosis, coupled with Dr. Van Buskirk’s knowledge of general medicine from years of practice as a board-certified family physician. Using the original non-traumatic osteopathic manipulative method, the Still Technique, and other manipulative methods, Dr. Van Buskirk seeks to restore the balance, flexibility, strength and energy efficiency inherent in the human body. He also uses lifestyle modifications, exercise and stretch prescriptions, medications and injections to restore neural and musculoskeletal health.

Healing the body also involves healing the emotions. Most emotions are generated and stored in the body, even if they are interpreted by the brain. Dr. Van Buskirk explains that balancing and releasing the neural and musculoskeletal systems helps restore emotional balance from trauma, persistent pain and long-term emotional distress. Likewise, any emotional load we bear can limit our body’s ability to heal. Restoring emotional balance aids recovering body health.
 

Dr. Van Buskirk explains that balancing and releasing the neural and musculoskeletal systems helps restore balance from trauma, persistent pain and long-term muculoskeletal distress.

Healing the body improves and stabilizes other disease processes, too. Both musculoskeletal manipulation and exercise are known to improve diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and lung disease. Therefore, restoring neural and musculoskeletal balance is important in healing the whole body.