The term Osteopathy is used to encompass a set of manual techniques that are used to alleviate a large number of ailments through the search for the recovery of organic balance. Osteopathic medicine is encompassed within the great diversity of physiotherapeutic disciplines, it uses a series of non-invasive treatments as an alternative to the problems and ailments that occur in the health of each person, seeking to avoid the application of pharmacological methods to treat them.
This discipline has a main characteristic and that is that it is based on the holistic vision of the human body, seeing it as a unit, and not as an independent group of organs and anatomical structures. That is why osteopathic treatments focus on the relief of the ailment through the recovery of the organic balance of the entire body, that is, it goes far beyond the analytical relief of the focus in which the pain is generated.
Osteopathy is a tool that is dedicated to preserving all organic functions so that they can fulfill their function perfectly. Due to the holistic definition of osteopathy, the use of it is widely recommended for a wide variety of disorders and disorders of the body which are mentioned below:
- Osteo-articular and musculoskeletal: among which are sprains, contractures, tendinitis, loss of sensation, pain due to asymmetric anatomical structures, among others.
- Digestive problems such as the case of the colon irritable, bloating, gas, hernia gap, etc.
- Neuronal disorders: headaches that occur for very different causes, trigeminal neuralgia and tension migraines.
- Genito-Urinary Disorders: such as incontinence, amenorrhea, cystitis, menopause, among others.
Treatment based on osteopathy consists of treating dysfunctions, hypermobility or hypomobility that can occur in some structures of the body, such as the spine, joints, nervous system, muscular system, skull and viscera. Its objective is to recover the body balance that has been affected, trying to reactivate the self-healing mechanisms by applying various therapeutic techniques, among which the manipulation of the joints, muscle energy techniques, mobilization, stretching, functional techniques, among other great variety.
