What is osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a set of therapeutic and diagnostic methods used to establish the causes and eliminate identified pathobiomechanical disorders by manual action on the anatomical structures of the skull, spine, sacrum, muscular-ligamentous apparatus, internal organs in order to restore their mobility and optimal functioning.
The term “osteopathy” was proposed more than 130 years ago by the American surgeon Andrew T. Still (1828-1917), who formulated the basic principles of osteopathy and developed a set of special manual techniques for diagnosing and treating a number of diseases.
Today, osteopathy is a modern, rapidly developing area of ​​medicine.
Osteopathy is based on fundamental medical sciences, as well as special knowledge of osteopathy, which is studied in higher osteopathic schools in America, Europe and Russia only after receiving higher medical education: to become an osteopath, a doctor needs not only talent, but also deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, histology, biomechanics of the human body.
Directions of osteopathy:
– structural
– visceral
– cranial osteopathy
– biodynamic osteopathy
In osteopathy, diagnostics and treatment are carried out by the hands of a doctor.
The hands of an osteopath are a thin and extremely sensitive, universal device created by nature itself. The special sensitivity of the hands is acquired by an osteopathic doctor through persistent training and allows him to detect the slightest, barely noticeable functional disorders in the patient’s body. This allows him to detect and, therefore, prevent the development of a disease in its very infancy, at a stage that is often undetectable even by the most modern hardware research methods. Healthy organs and tissues have their own inherent mobility, shape, density and temperature. With the help of sensitive fingers, the osteopath “reads” data about their condition, determines any changes, physiological and functional disorders in the patient’s body. Osteopathic medicine considers a person in the context of a three-dimensional unity of the musculoskeletal, neurovegetative and neuropsychic systems, which are constantly adapting to changing environmental conditions. Any disturbance in one of these three dimensions of the human body will lead to changes in the functioning of the body’s systems, causing a so-called osteopathic lesion, that is, a disease. According to the philosophy of osteopathy, the human body has enormous, inexhaustible possibilities for self-correction and mobilization of internal forces. The main advantage of osteopathy over other types of manual treatment is its gentle, sparing effect on the body. Having practically unlimited possibilities in diagnostics and treatment of a huge number of diseases, osteopathy has the least number of contraindications for treatment.

Doctor osteopath, orthopedic traumatologist Granenko Sergey MD, DO.