What is osteopathy

Osteopathy

What is osteopathy? A basic explanation.

The basis for the development of osteopathy was provided by the American doctor Dr. med. Andrew Taylor Still about 125 years ago. He linked the purely mechanical, almost chiropractic treatment with an energetic form of treatment. He postulated that it is not only the mechanical force of the practitioner, but also what triggers the thinking or the imagination at the moment in the patient's treated tissue.

He took as a strong pillar anatomy, the knowledge of course, a great help, or support in the visualization represents. After studying numerous philosophical and scientific concepts, he went to the formulation and practical implementation of his idea. In 1892 he founded the first School of Osteopathy (the American School of Osteopathy) to further develop and disseminate his method.

Since then there have been some direct students of Still, such as Garner W. Sutherland or John Martin Littlejohn, who went their separate ways and conceived and spread osteopathy differently from their founder.

But even in the aftermath, osteopathy has undergone many enrichments and modifications of the original theoretical approaches and techniques. For example, by the French osteopath Jean Pierre Barral in the treatment and diagnosis of organs and thermodiagnosis or the concept of body language and treatment at the fascial level by the US osteopath and emergency physician Stephen Typaldos.

In the US, osteopathy was established as a university course. Graduates are equivalent in terms of professional policy to doctors. As a result, the profession of osteopath was shortened by all non-medical qualities. In Germany, the most common training consists of 5 years of on-the-job training. Basic occupations are doctors, non-medical practitioners, and physiotherapists - the latter may only work in the delegation procedure.

Osteopathy is so diverse that it is difficult to find a common definition. There are many different schools, treatment and theory approaches. Common to all, that is treated mainly with the hands.

The range of individual treatments and practitioners is also very diverse. Some therapists sometimes work with painful techniques, others are very gentle, so you hardly feel a touch. Like chiropractic or manual therapy, osteopathy can be very "structural", but also very gentle "like laying on of hands".

The synthesis of energetic and mechanical factors in manual treatment was the foundation of osteopathy, and this is still reflected today in its external and internal appearance and in the individual diagnoses and treatments.

Mainly, people with musculoskeletal disorders are looking for an osteopath nowadays. First and foremost because of headaches, back pain and neck complaints. What few people are aware of is that other problems such as dizziness, incontinence, heartburn, TMJ pain, falling asleep, etc. are also good indications for osteopathic treatment.

Most private health insurance and alternative health insurance companies take care of the treatments. They usually cost between 60 and 100 euros and last between 30 and 60 minutes.

Since there is no profession of osteopath in Germany, it is actually not a training, but a training and the term is not protected by law, it makes sense, before seeking an osteopathic therapist working on his training history roughly inform , (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 19.01.2010)

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