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Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a “manual medicine”. Its practitioners palpate the body to detect stress or imbalances that cause discomfort or disease, then are manipulated to restore the balance. According to them, osteopathy is a complete system with its own methods of diagnosis and treatment: it treats a wide variety of ailments.
According to the osteopath, the physical ailments as psychological resonances have throughout the body. Thus, poor posture, accidents, stress or negative thoughts do not disturb one system (musculoskeletal, digestive, neurological, vascular, hormonal, etc..), But the whole body. To treat each problem, we must restore harmony in the musculoskeletal system and in each of the other systems.
In the language of osteopaths, this harmony is often reflected in the terms mobility and motility, motility designating all proper motions to an organ or system. A healthy body is equipped with excellent motility, not only in his joints, but in all tissues of the body: bones, muscles, nerves, ligaments, tendons, fascia, liquids, etc..
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