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Osteopathy
What Is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a manual therapeutic approach to health. Osteopaths use manual procedures to relieve muscular, ligamentous and other tissue stress that have a detrimental effect on health.

The philosophy of Osteopathy states that the body has a natural ability to heal itself.  By relieving tissue stresses, circulation of body fluids can return to a more normal state and the body’s own healing mechanisms can be stimulated.

The founder of Osteopathy was an American Physician, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, who in 1874, put forward the Principles and Philosophy of Osteopathy. His philosophy was based on the following main principles:
            
  • The body is an integral unit - mind, body and spirit.
            
  • Structure and function are interdependent
            
  • The body is self-regulatory and self-healing in the face of disease
            
Proper function is dependent on the unimpeded supply of the body fluids and in the   expression of the motor, sensory and nutrient nerves.

Disturbance in the structure-function relationship will ultimately lead to ill-health and disease. Osteopathic treatment, by removing physical stresses, helps the body's own inherent healing mechanisms express themselves more fully. If given the right opportunity, the body can re-establish balance and health.

Although all  of our internal systems are vital to our well being, the system with the most potent ability to heal and transfer healing messages to other areas is the Central Nervous System (CNS) & the cerebrospinal fluid.  The connection between the cranium (skull) and sacrum (the central bone of the pelvis) is related to the normal function of the central nervous system.  This connection is made by the dura,  a tough tube-like  structure  which envelopes the central nervous system and holds the cerebrospinal fluid.  The dura covers the inside of the cranial bones, and extends through spinal column and attaches to the sacral bone.  Thus, motion of the cranial bones is simultaneous with motion of the sacrum.  This is why Cranial Osteopaths always treat both the sacrum and the cranium. 

“Listen...if you ask the body, it will tell you”

“Instead of physically  moving  and testing a patient, I  listen carefully to the messages in the tissues and fluids.  By  listening to your body, I not only discover the symptoms of the problem, but can actually identify the core problem.   The benefit is that healing doesn’t just happen at the level where it hurts, but instead at a general whole body level.  You don’t have to be forceful to heal.  Through subtle movement, I tap into the internal potency within you, reprogramming the tissues and optimising your body’s inherent ability to heal itself.” 
George Stylian

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Osteopathy in the Cranial Field helps to alleviate pain and restrictions and has successfully treated conditions such as:
            
  • Neck, back & shoulder pain
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Migraines & Headaches
  • Premenstrual tension
  • Athletic & Sports injuries
  • “slipped discs”
  • Digestive disorders
  • Circulatory disorders
  • Infant and children's conditions
  • Sinusitis and many many more

How Osteopathy Works

Osteopaths are trained intensively to be able to perceive very subtle amounts of motion and changes in tissue tension and fluid movement.  This is done by “listening”  to the messages of the tissues and fluids through the hands rather than direct manipulation or maneuvering of the body structure.

Over time, your body  tissues and fluids have adapted a pattern of movement. This pattern can be effected by trauma or injury of any kind.  Even though it may be the wrong pattern, your body uses that pattern as a survival mechanism to try and keep everything functioning.  You have to respect that pattern.   By very gently and carefully encouraging the tissue in the direction in which it wants to move, and then exaggerating that motion far enough to a precise point of balance, your internal potency is aroused and  your body takes over the healing process.

A precise amount of pressure will promote the movement of fluids, eliminate dysfunction in the motion of tissues, and release compressed muscles, ligaments, bones and joints.

“The process is so subtle, you may not even feel it.  You just notice the benefit.”

Healing time depends on the restrictions, age & vitality of the patient and length of the problem. The more long standing the condition, the longer it takes to fix.  In general, most patients see significant improvement after 3-4 visits.   You will see signs along the way to motivate and encourage you to keep going.  The key with treatment, is that an osteopath doesn’t just alleviate pain and symptoms, he gets to the core of the problem so the body can begin to heal.  Because emotional as well as physical stresses are released, many patients can experience emotional reactions as well as physical.  These positive responses can occur during the treatment, hours or days after. 

“Although the process may not show immediate benefits, it certainly makes a much more powerful and long lasting impact on the situation.”

Your body has the ability to heal itself from within.  Every individual is born with an internal healing mechanism  which has all the elements to make up your own personal “pharmacy”. Problems arise when this mechanism is not able to do its job properly. 

An osteopath recognises that all body systems, including the musculo-skeletal are inter-dependent.  In addition, he sees the body as self-maintaining and self-regulating, but recognises the body's equilibrium can be disturbed by external factors including injuries, trauma of any kind, emotional stress, strains of life and body imbalances.  Disturbances in this structure-function relationship will ultimately lead to ill-health and disease - the body’s way of signalling that things aren’t right within.  Unless the initial disruption is addressed, treatment of the symptoms alone won’t provide complete or sustainable relief. 

Through Osteopathic treatment, osteopath aims to unblock your natural (and extremely powerful)  internal healing mechanisms, enabling them to express themselves more fully  and resulting in the rapid and complete healing of the  nervous, circulatory,  and lymphatic systems.  By encouraging the body to use its own internal “pharmacy”, balance and health are re-established.