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Upgrade Your Health and Fitness Career with Osteopathy Training
As a health and fitness professional, you already have a strong foundation in improving your clients’ physical well-being. But if you’re looking to expand your skills, deepen your impact, and elevate your career in healthcare, osteopathy offers the perfect next step.
Osteopathy enhances your fitness background by adding a comprehensive, hands-on approach to diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal and functional issues. While health and fitness focuses on strength, conditioning, and movement, osteopathy enables you to address the root causes of pain, injury, and mobility limitations. As an osteopathic manual practitioner (OMP), you’ll use advanced diagnostic skills and structural manipulation to treat a wide range of conditions, from chronic pain to postural imbalances.
Osteopathy also provides greater clinical autonomy. Unlike the fitness industry, where your role often revolves around general training and exercise programming, osteopathic practitioners make their own diagnoses and treatment plans. This allows you to create personalized, more effective interventions based on your own clinical reasoning and a holistic understanding of the body.
Another advantage is the longevity of an osteopathic career. Health and fitness professionals often face physical burnout from the demands of long hours, intensive workouts, and high-stress client expectations. Osteopathy, however, utilizes biomechanically efficient techniques focused on leverage and subtle manipulation, which reduces physical strain. Many osteopaths maintain long careers, working well into their 70s and 80s.
From a financial perspective, osteopathy offers higher earning potential. While tuition for both fitness and osteopathy programs are comparable, osteopathic manual practitioners typically earn more due to their advanced skills, clinical independence, and ability to treat a broader range of conditions. Osteopaths also have the opportunity to run their own practices, giving them more control over their income and work-life balance.
In summary, osteopathy provides a unique career upgrade for health and fitness professionals. It offers a deeper skill set, greater autonomy, higher earning potential, and a sustainable, intellectually rewarding career path. If you’re ready to make a more significant impact on your clients’ health and take your career to the next level, osteopathy is the ideal choice.
Rewarding career for Health Fitness
Your Health Fitness background is perfect for pursuing osteopathy! With your previous education you get DIRECT ENTRY into our program, and bypass our PREP course.
Our program will take your skills and knowledge and level them up so you can assess and treat osteopathically, with confidence, precision and expertise! CAO Graduates are well known for being highly trained! This is why they get full insurance billing privileges through OSTCAN and often have full practices within 6 months!
The CAO trains in Principles-based osteopathy which is high level (not entry level) osteopathy. You will be able to help patients in ways other modalities can’t. Our grads make their own schedules and earn well because of their high level of skill.
The CAO’s Admissions process is very personal! Unlike universities or colleges you won’t have to speak to a series of people and departments to get the information you need. Instead, we have personal consultations with every applicant, and guide them through the process every step of the way!
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Learn about:
- Our programs & schedules
- Insurance billing
- Financial aid & payment plans
- Lab training and Collective Mechanics™
- Clinical training & our Charity Clinics
- Campuses in Hamilton or Calgary
- 3-year fast track or 4-year regular program
Why study at CAO?
- 22 years teaching osteopathy
- Financial Aid / Payment Plans available
- 4200 program curated by PhD’s in curriculum development
- 1500 hours of hands-on training is supervised and in-person
- Only school teaching the Collective Mechanics™ approach to treatment
- Fully insured classrooms and teaching clinics
- Extensive faculty of working osteopaths, PhD’s and MD’s
- Charity Community Clinic serving the public and training senior students
- Connected with leading Osteopathic Medical Schools in the USA
- Study in Hamilton or Calgary - Exchange between campuses
- Full insurance billing for Graduates - with membership in OSTCAN
- 3 year and 4 year program options
- Direct entry for KIN, RMT, Health Science and Health Care
- PREP pathway for Non-health applicants and adult learners