Osteopathy is based on bone or muscle manipulation.
Osteopathy is a manual therapy based on bone or muscle manipulation.
This technique is appeared in the 19th century in the USA. Its founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, started from the principle that the well-being of the human body is linked to the proper functioning of its locomotor device (skeleton, joints, muscles, tendons, nerves).
In effect, all parts of the body being interconnected through organic tissues which compose it, the body constitutes an inseparable functional unit. As soon as a structure of the body presents a disturbance in its functioning, this affects the functioning of structures located at a distance through these tissue correlations.
– Luke Carrascosa
Osteopathy is a exclusively manual practice which lifts in particular the articular blockages of the body to allow it to function better.
It acts remotely from the musculoskeletal system on the main organs of the human body using pressing, stretching or twisting techniques.
The best results are obtained on so-called “functional” problems, i.e. pain for which the cause cannot be found, but which has sometimes interfered with daily life for a very long time: vertebral, rib and joint pain, tendinitis, muscle pain and trauma, headache, migraine and dizziness…