Carolina Vaccari D.O

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After graduation Carolina worked at Fisionet Centre in Rome, with a multidisciplinary team working with orthopaedic problems and sports injuries predominantly. It was at this centre where she gained vital experience and knowledge in injuries prevention and rehabilitation. In addition to the above Carolina has also collaborated with yoga teachers at the Joy centre in Rome, designing workshops and seminars combining Yoga with Osteopathy.

Carolina gained more experience in the Sport environment working as Gymnastics Instructor at the S.S.D. Minnie Gym in Rome for more than 10 years, which gave her the opportunity to start treating athletes aged between 6 and 18 years old. Carolina has been able to combine her competence in sport activities with her job as an osteopath, giving patients from all ages specific exercises aimed to boost the effect of the osteopathic treatment.

Her interest in treating young athletes brought her to undertake a postgraduate training in Paediatric Osteopathy at the University College of Osteopathy (UCO), where she had the opportunity to improve her knowledge and skills in Paediatrics and see a variety of paediatric patients from babies to adolescents. She also stood out as the best student of her course.

In her spare time, Carolina enjoys travelling and has volunteered as an osteopath in South America in 2015 and 2017, working with International osteopaths and improving her social and cultural sensibility.

Due to her studies, her working and volunteering experiences, Carolina combines all three aspects (Structural, Visceral, Cranial) of osteopathy and this combination allows her to approach the patient from a global and holistic point of view.

“I love working as an osteopath and taking this unique viewpoint allows me to adapt and tailor treatment plans to the individual needs of each patient.”

Carolina’s osteopathic approach is not limited to dealing with musculoskeletal conditions, such as lower back or neck pain, but it is also aimed at contributing to managing chronic conditions such as chronic fatigue or chronic headaches, migraines and digestive conditions.

Her osteopathic approach varies from joint manipulations to gentle and soft techniques in order to adapt the treatment to the patient’s need which might be different from one person to another, even if the complaint is apparently the same. She works with patients of all ages, from infants to the elderly.

Carolina firmly believes osteopathic treatment being a continuous collaboration between the osteopath and the patient. For this reason she usually likes to combine osteopathic treatments with exercises and lifestyle changes to perform, adapt and follow at home in order to make the osteopathic treatment itself more effective and significantly improve its results.

Carolina has attended many CPD lectures and courses during and after her osteopathic studies and these include:

• “Osteopathy in Paediatrics & Neonatology” – Post-graduate course, Italy
• First Aid Training – Italy

Whilst Carolina is fluent in her native language of Italian, she is also fluent in English and Spanish as well.

*Visceral osteopathic technique or manipulation is a gentle manual therapy aimed at assessing and treating the relationship between the bodies organs (such as the liver and bladder) and other structures such as the ligaments, fascia and muscles that connect to those particular organs.

Carolina is qualified to provide Sports Massage and Deep Tissue Massage.