IMT incorporates aspects of many different osteopathic and holistic hands-on therapies. Using extremely gentle, subtle pressures, and working with various rhythms of the body, IMT restores structural integrity of tissues, organs, muscles, vessels, and bone. This sets your body up for optimal functional performance.
One way to understand IMT is to imagine a piano and a musician. Even the best pianist won’t sound her best on a poorly tuned piano, while a terrible musician could sound passable on a great instrument. IMT is the piano tuner: treatment restores the full functional potential of your body.
IMT applies this approach to every body system: muscular, lymphatic, digestive, cardiovascular, renal, neurological, immune, etc. There are thousands of manual techniques that can be used to address biomechanics, dysfunction and discomfort.
Often people ask: how can you feel theses different rhythms? It is not unlike the connoisseur who can taste a glass of wine and tell you what kind of grapes it was made from, where the grapes were grown, the bottler and the year. An IMT therapist has trained his or her perceptual abilities to gain a tremendous amount of information simply by palpating the body.
IMT has been developed by Sharon Giammatteo, PhD, IMTC over the past thirty years.