The Manual Medicine Known as Osteopathy
Osteopaths can treat anything from back,
foot, and neck pain to pains experienced in peripheral joints
including the ankles, knees, muscle strains, and tendonitis. They
also treat work-related injuries such as repetitive strain
injuries, improper posture injuries and also sports-related
injuries.
Osteopathy is a unique healthcare that believes in "whole body"
healing through manual therapy that is based upon the biomechanical
principals and a wide range of manual manipulations that treat
musculo-skeletal issues and other medical functional disorders of
the human body. The World Health Organization recognizes Osteopathy
as a medical discipline. Osteopathy is practiced all over the
world.
Osteopaths can treat anything from back, foot, and neck pain to
pains experienced in peripheral joints including the ankles, knees,
muscle strains, and tendonitis. They also treat work-related
injuries such as repetitive strain injuries, improper posture
injuries and also sports-related injuries. Those who suffer from
the pain of arthritis can find relief using osteopathic techniques.
Other medical conditions have also found relief in osteopathy
including asthma, chronic fatigue, and gynecological dysfunction.
Many pregnancy-related aches and pains can be relieved using an
osteopath.
Osteopathy was one of the first medical professions to include
biomechanical analysis when accessing how injuries occur and what
secondary effects may exist.
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Doctors of osteopathic medicine believe in the power of the human body to heal and repair itself. They see their role as one of restoring balance in the systems of the body (bone, nerve, tissue, and fluids) so that the body can do what it is made to do and that is to function in harmony amongst the body parts and systems.
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Osteopaths treat patients using massage and stretching
techniques, and also articulation techniques, which are all apart
of manual therapy. Articulation techniques are those in which
joints are mobilized by passive range of motion. Muscle energy
techniques use contraction of muscles and alternately stretching of
muscles to work against resistance. Counter strain techniques
release restriction by placing the joint or muscle in a position of
comfort, and applying a counter stretch in order to antagonists of
the tight muscles. Functional techniques involve gentle
mobilization of joints to discover barriers to normal movement.
Manipulation is used when it is appropriate and safe to do so,
and is only a part of what osteopathic treatments are about. The
manipulations are done with a minimum of force.
A gentle release technique called, "Osteopathy in the Cranial
field" is used on the physically frail and with very young
children.
Visceral techniques are used for internal organs and are a
gentle rhythmical stretching of visceral areas.
Osteopaths encourage patients to take responsibility for their
health by identifying issues in the workplace that may contribute
to pain or discomfort and to reduce or eliminate them by making the
workplace more ergonomically pleasing, and by teaching patients
about proper posture, and how to put less strain on their bodies at
home, and also by teaching relaxation techniques to reduce stress
that can contribute to disease, and by assisting patients to work
with dieticians, occupational therapist and other healthcare
workers where needed.
Osteopaths believe that the patient and doctor work together
towards the goal of good health. The body can heal itself if given
the opportunity through patient education, a healthy diet, and a
healthcare practice that believes in whole-body health
approach.
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