Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a recognized and accomplished system of sanitary prevention, that is based on the manual contact for the diagnosis and for the treatment.
It respects the relationship among the body, the mind and the spirit both in health than in illness: it sets the emphasis on the structural and functional integrity of the body and on the intrinsic tendency of the body to auto-healing.
The osteopathic treatment is considered as an influence to facilitate and to encourage this process of auto-regulation.
The pains accused by the patients result from a mutual relationship between the muscle-skeletal components and those visceral of an illness or of an effort.
Osteopathy is based on three fundamental principles:
- the biological, dynamical and ecological unity of the body
- the relationship between structures and functions
- the concept of auto-healing
Unity of the body: the individual is seen in his unity as a system composed by muscles, skeletal structures, inside organs that find their connection in the nervous centers of the vertebral column. Every constituent part of the person (included psyche) is dependent from the others, and the correct function of each one assures the one of the whole structure; therefore, the comfort.
Relationship between structure and function: The perfection of every function is tied up to the perfection of the carrying structure, if such balance is altered, there is an osteopathic dysfunction, characterized by a zone of the body where the correct mobility has been lost. The organism will react to such unbalance creating some compensation zones and body adaptations not propitious to the general comfort of the organism.
Auto-healing: in the osteopathy, it is not the therapist that recovers, but his role is to eliminate the "obstacles" to the ways of communication of the body with the purpose to allow the organism, exploiting its phenomena of self-regulation, to recover. Osteopathy aims to restablish the harmony of the supporting skeletal structure of support with the purpose to allow the organism to be able to find a proper equilibrium and a proper comfort.
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