Osteopathy

Osteopathy is a manual method that improves the physiology of the body.
During our first appointment, manual contact will be used for tissue assessment and to recognize somatic dysfunctions.
The following meetings will focus on building a therapeutic path based on the health of the person rather than on the disease.
Osteopathy looks for habits that negatively affect daily life, functional alterations of the body that lead to the manifestation of signs and symptoms that can then lead to pain of various kinds.

The term “Osteopathy” was coined by its founder, the American surgeon Dr Andrew Taylor Still, who at the end of the nineteenth century researched and discovered the relationships between the functional balance of the body’s structures and health.
Dr. Still, disillusioned with traditional medicine, developed a new conception of the human body and another way to treat it using the hands.
Dr. Still has written down some basic principles that allow us to restore the body’s homeostasis.

The individual is seen as a whole as a system composed of muscles, skeletal structures, internal organs and nervous structures that find their connection through the fascial tissue. Each constituent part of the person (including the psyche) and the environment in which he lives is dependent on the others and the correct functioning of each one ensures that of the entire structure: therefore homeostasis, more simply called well-being.

Osteopathy can be summed up in a single sentence “structure governs function, function governs structure”. The perfection of each function is linked to the perfection of the supporting structure, just as the incorrect function will alter the structure; If this balance is altered, we are faced with an osteopathic somatic dysfunction, characterized by an area of the body in which proper mobility has been lost. The organism will react to this imbalance by creating areas of compensation and bodily adaptations that are not favorable to the general homeostasis of the organism.

In Osteopathy it is not the therapist who heals, but his role is to eliminate the “obstacles” to the body’s communication pathways in order to allow the body, exploiting its own self-regulation phenomena, to achieve healing. Osteopathy aims to restore the harmony of the various structures of our body in order to allow the body to find its own balance and well-being.