Bend Osteopathic Care, PC
An integrative osteopathic medical practice
Address
147 SW Shevlin Hixon Dr, Suite 204
Bend, OR 97702
Email · info@bendosteo.com
Phone · (541) 706-9985
To schedule an appointment
Please call or text (541) 706-9985
We accept most private insurance. We do not accept Oregon Health Plan / Medicaid. Please call to confirm whether your plan (including Medicare) is covered.
Health as a reference point
“Osteopathy is different than other healing arts. Osteopathy does not utilize disease as a reference point, but actively engages what is healthy and vital as the therapeutic organization for healing. Healing emerges from the health in the body not from the disease.”
— Steve Paulus, DO
I provide osteopathic manual medicine to help remove structural barriers to optimal health, and lifestyle-focused family medicine to help prevent and reverse chronic disease. I am also accepting a limited number of individuals and families for primary care when, after we meet, we mutually feel it is a good fit.
For primary care, it helps if you are motivated toward optimal health — or strongly want to stay healthy and prevent chronic disease — and are open to looking at how you eat, move, rest, manage stress, and nurture relationships. If that sounds like you, we are likely a good fit.
I am a double-boarded physician in Family Medicine and Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine. I look for and address causes rather than only treating symptoms. As a traditional osteopathic physician, I first honor and look to your health. Rather than focusing only on what is not healthy, we look to what is already working and help support what your body is trying to do. I use my hands to assess and treat.
How I work with you
I look at how you are doing with your Forks, Feet, Fingers, Sleep, Stress & Love — six habits that strongly shape long-term health — and how those inputs may be affecting how you feel now. We look for safe, gentle habit changes that fit real life.
Food is one of the biggest levers. A diet heavy in highly processed foods often keeps people stuck in damage-control. I focus on whole, minimally processed foods — vegetables, fruits, quality proteins (including meat, fish, eggs, and dairy if you eat them), legumes, whole grains, nuts, and seeds — in a pattern you can sustain. Better-raised and less chemically burdened options help when practical; perfection is not the goal. I did not go into medicine only to manage disease. The goal is prevention and, when possible, reversal. If I am seeing you as a specialist, I am glad to work with your primary care clinician to safely help you rely less on medications when lifestyle support makes that possible.
Using practical functional-medicine principles — without defaulting to expensive out-of-pocket lab panels — we can work through dietary modification, positive stress-management tools, and occasional supplementation when useful. Change is usually more successful when we go slowly, so you do not burn out.
Healing is personal
There are many paths to healing, because there are many causes of imbalance. It can be difficult work — and also an extraordinary journey. We need community, listeners, and connection: to ourselves, to each other, to the world around us, and to our Creator. Previous trauma can shape health in lasting ways. Old survival-based beliefs that once protected us can later keep us stuck. To the best of my ability, I help patients through medication when needed, and also through meditation, prayer, and deep listening — so you can feel more of your wholeness and move toward the balance needed for lasting health.
I would be honored to partner with you. You are the expert of your own body and life. Where it feels practical and safe, simple daily practices — a few minutes with your breath, time outside, a short walk with attention to sensation — can reconnect you to the present moment and to your body. This is not easy work, especially if you are healing from trauma. You deserve support. We cannot do this alone.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” — Hippocrates
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi
Our fulcrum is God: our lever, prayer; prayer which burns with love. With that we can lift the world! — St. Thérèse de Lisieux
To make an appointment
Please call (541) 706-9985
147 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive, Suite 204 · Bend, OR 97702