Definition - Osteopathy - History
Osteopathy is a preventive and curative "manual medicine", whose main therapeutic goal is to restore mobility and body functions by treating the causes of pain, symptoms and functional disorders. For this, the osteopath uses the quality and finesse of his palpation to detect the position, mobility and quality of the tissues.
The objective of the professional practice of osteopathy is to restore movement of the structures of the body (bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, tendons, organs, viscera, cranial sutures, etc.) which are in restriction, which allows a liberation of blood and lymphatic circulation and promotes metabolic exchanges between all the systems of your body. This also allows for better interrelations and regulations between the different systems of the human body. To do this, the patient is always treated as a whole.
Osteopathic techniques are countless and different from one person to another. The osteopath will adapt to each person and will take a unique approach each time.
We cannot improvise as osteopaths. The osteopath relies on in-depth knowledge of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, human pathologies in addition to knowing and mastering hundreds of osteopathic techniques. It looks for the cause of your problem instead of focusing only on the symptoms. The detailed questionnaire, observation and a developed sense of palpation constitute his main […]
Read MoreIt was in the United States , after 10 years of research, that Andrew Taylor Still set out on June 22, 1874 the principles and applications of osteopathy. Dr. Still, physician and surgeon, was the first to treat patients as a whole by looking for the causes of their dysfunctions rather than just treating the […]
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