Osteopathy

Osteopathy is an independent, holistic form of medicine in which diagnosis and treatment are carried out with the hands. Osteopathy gets to the bottom of the causes of complaints and treats the person as a whole.

More than 140 years ago, the American physician Andrew Taylor Still developed the principles of osteopathy after intensive research and thus founded a new form of medicine. Since then, osteopathy has been constantly developed further.

Our organism consists of countless structures, all of which are directly or indirectly interconnected. An important connection is created by the so-called fasciae. These are thin connective tissue sheaths that surround every structure and together form a large body fascia. Usually, fasciae receive little attention in conventional medicine, but for osteopathy they are of great importance. Fasciae also connect structures that functionally have nothing to do with each other. From the point of view of osteopathy, they can therefore transmit changes, which explains why the complaints often occur in a different place than the cause.
Osteopathy builds on the body’s own self-healing and self-regulating powers. Diseases and disorders often arise because the body loses the ability to self-regulate. This is where osteopathy comes in and mobilizes the body’s self-healing powers.

Every part of the body, every organ needs sufficient freedom of movement to function optimally. The goal of osteopathic treatments is to release blockages and tissue tension and thus restore mobility. Osteopaths always search for the causes of complaints and do not limit themselves to the treatment of individual symptoms. Thus, no diseases in the actual sense are treated, but their triggers, such as movement disorders.
After a detailed anamnesis in the preliminary consultation, diagnosis and treatment are carried out with the hands. During the examination, osteopaths palpate the human tissue layer by layer and thus feel deeper structures such as muscles, fascia, bones, as well as nerves, blood vessels and the internal organs. In this way, movement restrictions and tensions are diagnosed.

Osteopaths take an average of up to one hour for a treatment. However, the exact course of treatment depends on the individual case. It is not uncommon for the reaction to osteopathic treatment to begin some time later. In order to achieve success with certain clinical pictures, several treatments are to be expected.