OsteopathY

Osteopathy is a likewise form of manual medicine.

A holistic regard to the formation of functional disorders is its most important feature.

150 years of osteopathy history have yielded many new therapeutic approaches, a better understanding of our bodies and the development of functional disorders and illnesses.

Osteopathy is learnable for a trained physiotherapist only in the form of an in-service training, five-year course at an internationally recognized university. (www.iao.be)

An osteopath examines not only joints and musculature, but also organs, tissues, nerves, vessels and a patients cranial system as well.

Respiratory functions, digestion mechanics, blood circulation, and lymphatic action, for example, can be a positive influence and thus support the body’s self-regulation.

An example:

A patient makes a lateral tilt to the right, his or her organs on the right side of the body are compressed, on the left side stretched. On both sides too much movement occurs in various tissue areas. If this is due to an adhesion on the organ or connective tissue in the form of a growth, scarring or increased tension, what will happen will be a change of the lateral-inclination movement in the area of the spine, and it is there where the first discomfort will occur.