Osteopathy is a manual therapy complementary to traditional medicine. This method does not require the use of natural medicines and makes use of a causal approach and not symptomatic ; study the individual as a whole and not content to resolve the symptom, but it goes to search for the cause that can find its location in another area than the pain.
is effective for the prevention, assessment and treatment of disorders affecting the ' neuro-musculo-skeletal apparatus , but not only, as the osteopath also uses visceral techniques, cranio- sacral and fascial.
The term "osteopathy" was coined by its founder, American surgeon Dr Andrew Taylor Still , that at the end of the nineteenth century discovered the relationship between the functional balance of all the structures the body and health.
The principles of osteopathy:
- Units of the body: the individual is seen as a whole as a system composed of muscle, skeletal structures, internal organs, which find their link in the nerve centers of the spine. Each constituent part of the person (mind included) is dependent on others, and the proper functioning of each ensures that the entire structure: therefore, the well-being.
- Relationship between structure and function: Dr. Still concluded that osteopathy could be summed up in one sentence "structure governs function." The perfection of each function is linked to the perfection of structure, if this balance is disrupted you are facing a osteopathic dysfunction, characterized by a body area that has lost the proper mobility. The body will react to this imbalance by creating areas compensation adjustments and body are not conducive to the general welfare of the organism.
- Self-Healing: in osteopathy is not the therapist heals, but its role is to remove "obstacles" to the routes of the body in order to allow the organization to use its phenomena Self-regulation, to achieve healing. Osteopathy aims to restore the harmony of the skeletal structure of support in order to allow the body to be able to find their own balance and well-being.
Applications:
- lombalgie (acute e croniche);
- cefalee;
- cervicalgie;
- dolori articolari e muscolo-tendinei (pubalgia, periartrite scapolo-omerale, gomito del tennista e del golfista, articolazione temporo-mandibolare ecc);
- alterazioni posturali;
- disordini funzionali dell'apparato gastro-enterico (ernia iatale, reflusso gastro-esofageo, stipsi, ecc);
- disfunzioni post-traumatiche (colpo di frusta, distorsioni, ecc);
- disturbi del sistema nervoso periferico (tunnel carpale, sciatalgia, brachialgia, ecc).
- osteopatia e neonati
- osteopatia e gravidanza
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