What is osteopathy?

Osteopathy is an independent, holistic form of medicine in which diagnosis and treatment is carried out using the hands. Osteopathy gets to the bottom of the causes of complaints and treats the person as a whole. Over 140 years ago, the American doctor Andrew Taylor Still developed the principles of osteopathy after intensive research and thus founded a new medicine. Osteopathy is then continually developed further. Our organism consists of countless structures, all of which are directly or indirectly related to one another. From the perspective of osteopathy, such structures can therefore transmit changes, which explains why the complaints often occur in a different place than the cause can be found. Osteopathy is based on the body's own self-healing and self-regulating powers. Illnesses and disorders often arise when the body loses its ability to regulate itself. This is where osteopathy comes in and mobilizes the body's self-healing powers. Every part of the body and every organ needs sufficient freedom of movement to function optimally. The aim of osteopathic treatments is to release blockages and tissue tension and thus restore mobility. Osteopaths always research the causes of complaints and do not limit themselves to treating individual symptoms. It doesn't treat illnesses in the actual sense, but rather their triggers, such as movement disorders. Osteopathy is used in many medical areas. Osteopathy can be completely sufficient as the first and only medical measure. Depending on the symptoms, they can also be used in an interdisciplinary manner alongside other medical treatments. The latter is particularly useful when it comes to serious pathologies, including serious illnesses..

Osteopathy has 3 branches:

1.Craniosacral osteopathy. 

is the work with the nervous system & the primary respiratory rhythm and is part of every osteopathic treatment because our nervous system supplies and controls everything. Due to posture patterns, disruptions in the electromagnetic field and the many external environmental influences, this system is often under stress and this leads to supply disruptions.

During craniosacral therapy, the main focus is on working with the central nervous system (brain & its cranial nerves, as well as the spinal cord area up to the pelvis). This central axis is gently freed from blockages, relaxed and returned to its balance.

The primary respiratory rhythm is a movement that comes from the cerebrospinal fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) and can be felt very minimally through the skull bones, which are not completely fused, and throughout the body. It is an autonomous rhythm that tells us about tensions in the meninges and about balance in the body.?

2. Visceral osteopathy

Visceral osteopathy is the work with the internal organs and soft tissues of the body. The organs are also affected by tension and dysfunction more than we can imagine, as they are also supplied by the nervous system and dysfunctions can be transmitted to the rest of the body through the suspension structures of ligaments, tendons, fascia and muscles. The organ can also be the cause, which then feeds back into the nervous system. Most of the time the body can compensate for long nutritional errors, behavior patterns or tensions that reach the organ, but when this is no longer possible, the problem manifests itself in the form of malfunctioning of the organ. Hormonal disruption, digestive problems or pain and discomfort are the result

We treat for example digestive problems, liver/bile disorders, stomach dysfunctions, diaphragm adhesions, breathing restrictions, heart problems.  Disorders in the urogenital tract, impaired fertility..

3.Parietal osteopathy

Parietal osteopathy deals with the human musculoskeletal system.
Human muscles in particular are particularly affected by tension. We have a sophisticated muscular system, that is also supplied by the nervous system; humans have incredible mobility and range of motion abilities. The muscles serve exactly this range of motion.If they are constantly under stress to compensate for certain malfunctions, they tire and develop trigger points, shorten or are more susceptible to injury. Chronic tension and pain often occur. Here too, it is not only important to relax the muscles through massage but also to uncover and treat the compensation pattern. In this way we can reprogram the body in the long term..