Airdrie Osteopathic Care & Wellness Centre
128 Main Street North T4B 0R3 Airdrie, AB, Canada

It comes with an even heavier heart that I have to announce that Alberta Health Services has stated that I must remain in isolation until Tuesday, April 27th. I will be back to treating April 28th at 745am!!!!!! Thank you for the many texts, emails, and phone calls in regards to my health - to be transparent - I do NOT have Covid. When you have close contacts and are negative, your isolation is a lot longer!!!!! For every action, there is a reaction. My reaction to this very ...long 19 day isolation has been to focus on my health; physically, emotionally, spiritually, socially, and mentally. My grandma who I was extremely close with passed away 2 days into my isolation - so lots of learning - and lots of love given to my family and I. If there is one thing I have learned - get creative!!!! I have been studying and reviewing Osteopathy (my love) and am excited to start treating next week! Lots of new tips and tricks to try on you all! I hope each and everyone one of you are staying healthy in all facets of your lives - and please reach out if you are not - we are all connected "You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind" If you so desire please feel free to go ahead and reschedule for May/June. I have also temporarily suspended new client bookings until I have all of you wonderful people scheduled back in!!! Please add yourself to the cancellation list (found in the Jane app) this is the list I go by when individuals cancel their appointments. In light and love, Erica Hatch DOMP

I need to get one of these!!!!

It's been a bit like the hunger games and this Tuesday, the odds were not in my favour! Per the Alberta Government, I will be closed for the next 4 weeks as of Saturday December 12, 2020. To help guide in the confusion, regulated professions are allowed to remain open while unregulated professions must close. And sadly, osteopathy is unregulated in Alberta - and all of Canada. If you have an appointment with me over the next few days, I will be having 50minute appointments ...compared to 55min (this is to try and see a few more people!) For everyone else, I will be ready and waiting with itchy, impatient hands to see you all on January 8th (praying hard this date is correct!). Last night I worked until 7pm and my family took me out for dinner to try and cheer me up. We had a great talk about gratitude and how sad it is for everyone. My girls realized our server will also be off - so we left a giant tip!!! and her surprise and authenticity and tears - made us all cry. It was the most real human connection I feel I have had in a while! I miss seeing faces, I miss hugging - just you wait til I can! For however cheesy this is, we are all in this together - so please light up the world with gratitude, kindness, and love - you never know what the power of good can do! In gratitude for all of you this past year, Erica Hatch DOMP

Just an FYI - educational Friday :)

THANK YOU!!!!! MY HEART IS FULL - AND OVERWHELMED!!! I AM FULLY BOOKED UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR!!! if you would like to be added to the cancellation list - send me a message or text! and PLEASE DO!!!! With the covid isolations occurring these days it never hurts to add your name to the list!

What does an osteopathic manual therapist and an engineer have in common? Understanding the laws that governs the engine of the body. An osteopath is only ...a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still (Founder of Osteopathy) Book an appointment with osteopathic manual therapist near you: https://www.aaomt.org/find-a-member #Osteopathy #AAOMT #DiscoverOsteopathy #Help #Therapy #Preventative #Proactive #Healthy #manualTherapy #Try #selfcare #OsteopathicManualTherapy #ATStill

To all my clients with littles and teens! I have figured out what I am doing with mine and have added in the reading week schedule (and a Saturday) in February! I know we don't want them to miss any more school!!!!! #nobeachesthisyear #osteopathy #mentalhealth #physicalhealthmatters #manualtherapy airdrieosteo.janeapp.com

It’s true - I can return to work! just getting organzied - you will receive an email with the link to book this weekend!!!!It’s true - I can return to work! just getting organzied - you will receive an email with the link to book this weekend!!!!

Happy New Year! It did start off with a bang I have to admit but really - 2020 is quite a challenge to live up to! I have had a LOT of emails/texts about Osteopathy. I just wanted to send a quick note to clarify - Osteopathy is NOT allowed to return to work per the government of Alberta orders. ... As of now they are stating January 21, 2021 but I am a realist these days and I just can't see it happening. With the uncertainty, I am not opening booking until I have a date of return to work from the government. I will also be moving to a new system (the Jane app) when the green light is given - no worries! I will be emailing everyone to let you know when I can return to work and when the schedule is posted. I hope everyone is safe, healthy and hanging in there! I myself have been living in the mountains - maybe I will see one of you on the mountain! In gratitude Erica Hatch DOMP

EDIT 12/31/2020: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158849139969096&id=663614095 -----... This is brilliant! Written by a restaurant owner: As I walk into the grocery store with 30 other people at the same time, I think about my restaurant which allows parties of 6 total, and meticulously spaces out reservations by 10 minutes ensuring guests that aren’t from the same party do not arrive at the same time. As I take a cart, that has had just the handle sanitized, I think about my restaurant which invested thousands of dollars (so far) on ink and paper to print disposable menus to ensure no two guests touch the same menu. As I walk over to the produce aisle with 15-20 other people around me, I’m reminded of the strict no mingling / no walking around the restaurant other than to use the washroom or enter/exit policy we have in place and the 6ft distance between tables which has cut our capacity in half. As I watch the woman next to me pick up apples with her hand, check them over closely and then put them back on the open pile and repeats this until she finds the perfect apples the same thing that all other people that day who want an apple will then do and then put those apples into their mouths, I think about the two step sanitation process in place at my restaurant for all cutlery and dishes and glassware in between every single guest, and the sanitation of every surface guests touch (tables, chairs, salt and pepper shakers, etc). As I watch the man in the next aisle over ignore or not notice the directional arrows on the ground, I think about my restaurant and the constant redirecting our staff does of guests - by locking certain doors, blocking areas off and the work my team does to simply not allow guests to walk where they are not supposed to. As I walk down the cereal aisle, I see a person with their mask off so they can talk on the phone, and I’m reminded of my restaurant where our masking policy has lost us so much business. As I check out at the cashier, I use my debit card to pay and see the plastic film covering the terminal. It was not sanitized after the person before me used it. I am reminded of the sanitizer used on the debit terminals in between each guest every time at my restaurant. As I stand at a crowded exit trying to leave, I’m reminded of the detailed contact tracing in place at my restaurant that records the name, phone number, table number, arrival and exit time, as well as the server and section the guest sat in that is in place at my restaurant not one of those pieces of information was taken from any customer here. As I get into my car and watch all these people leave the store, I wonder which person will visit my establishment after contracting covid at this grocery store, and I wonder why on earth my restaurant will be blamed as the source. Restaurants are being targeted as the source of Covid infections because we are one of the ONLY industries required to provide contact tracing. Someone with Covid could have gone to Costco, Home Depot, Walmart, the Mall food court....any grocery store, etc. Yet it’s the restaurant that took their detailed information that will be forced to close and deemed responsible for the infection. You want to blame restaurants for the spread after thousands of dollars investing in equipment, training and stricter policies than ANYWHERE ELSE?! PROVE IT #saverestaurants

If everyone could please sign!!!

I need to get one of these!!!!

What does an osteopathic manual therapist and an engineer have in common? Understanding the laws that governs the engine of the body. An osteopath is only ...a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still (Founder of Osteopathy) Book an appointment with osteopathic manual therapist near you: https://www.aaomt.org/find-a-member #Osteopathy #AAOMT #DiscoverOsteopathy #Help #Therapy #Preventative #Proactive #Healthy #manualTherapy #Try #selfcare #OsteopathicManualTherapy #ATStill

The reno happened this weekend!!!!!!! A great big thank you to Derek Hatch for the painting and all other stuff you do and a big thank you to Liz Brousseau for her talent!!!!! She has most definitely turned me into MORE of a thrifter!!!!! I am so happy how it turned out - just a few final tweaks and my new happy place is done!

There’s a new girl at the clinic :)))))

was so honoured and excited to see this on my page!

Do you have a child with an ear infection? Osteopathic Manual therapy in conjunction with conventional medicine has proven to help decrease the duration of the ...acute ear infection (acute otitis media) and prevent reoccurrences. https://jaoa.org/article.aspx Give osteopathic manual therapy a try! Book an appointment with osteopathic manual therapist near you: https://www.aaomt.org/find-a-member #EarInfection #AcuteOtitisMedia #Childhood #Pediatrics #AAOMT #Osteopathy #OsteopathichManualTherapy #Study #therapy #complementaryTherapy #Research

Back to school! Is your child having issues paying attention and hyperactive? Recently diagnosed by a doctor or psychologist to have Attention Deficit Hyperacti...ve Disorder? Consider osteopathic manual therapy for your child. Osteopathic manipulative therapy can potentially increase performances of selective and sustained attention in children with ADHD. https://jaoa.org/article.aspx Book an appointment with osteopathic manual therapist near you: https://www.aaomt.org/find-a-member #Osteopathy #ADHD #AttentionDeficit #Hyperactive #Focus #OMT #school #therapy #child #Therapy #Research #JAOA #AAOMT #manualTherapy

This is such a cool photo / I had to share! And of course - everything IS connected!!!!

I just had a cancellation for this Wednesday afternoon! message me or go to www.airdrieosteo.com/booknow!

Got this message this afternoon!!!!! Makes me so happy to hear this - and I love my growth in following my intuition and hands! #loveosteo

Super exciting news!!!! After a week on the beach and some soul searching, I have decided to step back from nursing a bit - which means my schedule is open for MORE osteo - AND I am accepting new clients again!!!!!! So please spread the word and come see what osteopathy can do to help you!!! http://www.airdrieosteo.com/book-now/

Fall schedule is posted! Updated email sent out yesterday (check your junk folders as we all know my info loves to land there!!) So excited to see what the fall brings us all!!! And it better be good!!! LOL http://www.airdrieosteo.com/book-now

I seriously love what I do! I hop out of bed excited for the days! And when I get texts like this it - seriously makes me more excited than almost anything else!!!!

Happy Tuesday "Monday"!!!

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were sti...ll. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed. ~Kitty (Catherine) O'Meara (March 2020)