Eric Sanderson

DO(P.Q.), DOMP (ON.), MSc, Osteopathic Manual Practitioner & Functional Medicine

Eric Sanderson has an osteopathic manual practice located in downtown Toronto. His word of mouth based practice developed and grew from producing results with difficult cases was not dependent depend on marketing campaigns. He has consistently focused on providing clients with a wide variety of manual osteopathic techniques to address a variety of health issues. As a healthcare provider, Eric has been practicing since 1998. Since 2006, he has been teaching seminars on joint normalization and cranial technique.

The goal of Eric’s varied technical scope and background is to address problems that originate in the connective tissue (fascia), or have a neurological origin, or a combination of issues involving both systems.

He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1998 with an Honours Bachelor of Science, majoring in Human Biology, and minoring in Physiology and English. He also has an M.Sc. in Anatomical Sciences from Queens University.

Eric began his pursuit to study osteopathy and graduated from the Canadian College of Osteopathy with a Diploma in Manual Osteopathy (DOMP) in October 2005. He produced a thesis entitled “The Dural Connection: A Qualitative Investigation to Enlighten The Current Understanding of the Dura, the Meninges, and their Significance to Osteopathy”.

Eric then went on to graduate from the Académie Sutherland Ostéopathie du Québec à Montreal in September 2007, with a Diploma in Osteopathy (Diplome en Ostéopathie), for which he completed his second thesis, entitled “Osteopathic Treatment of the Dura Mater to Enhance Ocular Convergence” which was presented in front of an international jury of Osteopaths.

In 2014, Eric completed a post-graduate program in Traditional Osteopathic Studies in Biodynamic Osteopathy, under Dr. James Jealous DO, in Ashland Oregon.

Eric has also completed a post-graduate program focused on Evolutionary Medicine in the Osteopathic Field (EVOST) in Belgium under the direction of Jean-Paul Hoppner and Max Girardin.

Since 2008 Eric has also pursued studies in Functional Neurology and functional biochemistry.

He is also the founder and principal professor of the Ontario Academy of Progressive Osteopathy in Toronto (progressiveosteopathy.ca), where he teaches young aspiring healers the art of osteopathy from an interdisciplinary perspective with the assistance of world-renown specialists/professors in the field of Osteopathy.

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