Professional athletes from every sport
Jean-Marie Legé has travelled a great deal to look after athletes at the very highest level.
Jean-Marie Legé, osteopath specialising in the voice and elite athletes
In the famous Paris neighbourhood of Montmartre, Jean-Marie Legé welcomes you to his practice.
Jean-Marie is the watchmaker of elite athletes and singers; his treatment works to improve performance. His consultations are also for people with common ailments. A specialist in the body and the voice: artists and athletes come from all over the world to consult him. When you go to see Jean-Marie Legé, it’s not just an osteopath you’re seeing, but a watchmaker of the body who really keeps up with the latest scientific research. He’s someone who is always searching, always taking an interest.
| Osteopath | since July 1979, with the first cohort of osteopaths in France |
|---|---|
| Patients | dancers, elite athletes, professional singers and musicians, actors; babies, children and adults |
| Singers | ongoing care, and emergency appointments when the voice is lost, after an ENT examination (what to do) |
| Teaching | seminars in France for the next generation of osteopaths; co-founder of the Société d’ostéopathie franco-américaine (Franco-American Society of Osteopathy); an osteopathy course in preparation (his background) |
| Languages | consultations in French; he also sees English-speaking patients |
Modesty is the dust cover of talent.
When you go to see Mr Legé, you meet the biggest names and the greatest artists in his waiting room. But his great discretion and his great reserve mean that he never names anyone, never talks about who he has treated. And yet everyone in the business knows.
[…] He has a real knowledge of the body and was able to relieve long-standing, recurring pain in my pelvis. […]
General, cranial, visceral and biodynamic osteopathy
Jean-Marie Legé’s patients speak of precise, gentle movements, which he explains, and of how closely he listens.
Treating a joint by making it crack amounts to producing a release, rather like peeling off a suction cup. But a manipulation is a change in the axis of one part of the joint, and it is only rarely accompanied by a crack. […] The after-effects of treatment are far more stable when there has been no cracking, but a true manipulation.
Which osteopaths today are able to explain with precision their movements, the anatomy and the science? Because, as he says himself, healing also comes through understanding the body, and what the patient feels is very important: it’s the starting point for working out the correction and the manipulation.
[…] The manipulations are done with great gentleness, far from the image people sometimes have of osteopathy. […]
Ongoing and emergency care for singers
As a child, Jean-Marie Legé learned singing himself at the Notre-Dame de Paris choir school.
The body and the voice, with Adeline Toniutti
Jean-Marie Legé works with Adeline Toniutti at CALYP’s Voice Clinic, where together they support singers and people with vocal difficulties. He is the author of eleven boxed texts in Anatomie du Chant (The Anatomy of Singing), Adeline Toniutti’s book (Marabout, 2024; in Russian in 2026), and developed its diagrams with her. La Bonne Voix (The Right Voice, Leduc, 2025) relates their conversation about speaking.
Adeline is a centrifugal force. I really like her precision when it comes to the areas of the body that are going to be an obstacle or a hindrance to the freedom of the voice, to the freedom of the breath and the sound.
Watch the 2022 voice symposium
At the first International Symposium on the Voice, in Paris on 18 September 2022, Jean-Marie Legé gave the talk “L’ostéopathe, l’horloger du corps” (“the osteopath, watchmaker of the body”), alongside Adeline Toniutti, an ENT surgeon, a phoniatrician and a psychiatrist. He spoke again near Milan in 2023.
International Symposium on the Voice, Paris 2022: the long version
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