Osteopathie Gielen

In principle, all living tissue can be treated. This means that people of all ages and constitutions can be treated successfully.

For example, for the following symptoms:

 

• Problems with the musculoskeletal system
• Digestive tract problems
• Migraine, headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, etc.
• Kidney and bladder problems
• Skin problems

All types of congestion, such as hemorrhoids, varicose veins, lymphatic congestion, etc. Acute conditions such as heart attacks, severe infections, mental health crises, etc. are not within the immediate scope of an osteopath's work. However, follow-up osteopathic treatment is often very beneficial in restoring mobility to the affected tissue.

Osteopathy
What is osteopathy?
"Osteo" stands for bone (from the Greek osteon) and "pathie" means disease or suffering (Greek: pathe). It could be described as "diseases or suffering caused by misalignment or immobility of the bones." However, the term osteopathy is a much broader concept.

Osteopathy is a manual treatment method performed with the hands. Using gentle movements and targeted touches, the osteopath loosens, decongests, and frees everything in the body that does not flow, move, or pulsate correctly. This can be energy, cerebrospinal fluid, but also lymphatic fluid, blood, tissue fluid, or oxygen.

In a living organism, everything must be in constant motion. Even within individual, tiny cells, the cell components must move. Where movement is disrupted, "still water" forms. Oxygen, nutrients, vitamins, and minerals cannot enter, and waste products cannot be removed.

And this is precisely where the germ, the potential for the development of a disease, arises: arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, infections, disc damage, osteoarthritis, tumors, or cancer.

"Stagnant water" can result from numerous processes, such as injury, inflammation, surgery, scarring, or even chemical medications, etc.

Regeneration always goes hand in hand with flow and movement. The osteopath restores this vital, life-saving movement, thereby enabling the processes necessary for healing.

Osteopaths treat all types of:
structures (muscles, bones, connective tissue, ligaments, glands, vessels) and organs (kidneys, heart, liver, intestines, brain, etc.) and takes into account the connections between these different structures.

For example, a disc problem may be a matter of congestion in the intestines, or heart problems may be the result of a rib blockage. This means that the cause-and-effect principle is very important in osteopathy.
Osteopathy touches. With a good osteopath, you are in good hands.

History of osteopathy
The American physician Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917) founded osteopathy over 130 years ago. The Scottish physician John Martin Littlejohn (1866–1947) applied Andrew Taylor Still's predominantly anatomically based concept to physiology and promoted the scientific recognition of osteopathy. After returning to Europe, he founded the British School of Osteopathy (BSO) in London in 1917.

William Garner Sutherland (1873-1954), a student of Stills, extended the osteopathic concept to the skull. He thus founded craniosacral osteopathy, which was later separated from osteopathy, primarily by the American osteopath John Upledger, and named craniosacral therapy.

D.D. Palmer (1845-1913) visited Kirksville, stayed at Still's house for two weeks, and familiarized himself with the innovative manual techniques of osteopathy. In 1898, he renamed his training center, founded in 1887, from "Palmer Cure & Infirmary" to "Palmer School and Infirmary of Chiropractic." There he taught osteopathic techniques, some of them in modified form, but without conveying the holistic concept. In his so-called chiropractic, he reduced osteopathy to a purely symptom-oriented treatment system.

After the USA, osteopathy first spread to Great Britain. In England, osteopathy was influenced by Littlejohn and the physician and osteopath Alan Stoddard, who modified the demanding system, which was difficult to integrate due to its holistic aspects, in a similar way to Palmer. After this step, the spread of osteopathy in England increased considerably, but Dr. Still's holistic osteopathic concept disappeared. In recent years, osteopathy has spread throughout Europe via France and Belgium, with various training centers once again focusing on the holistic concept.