Gentle healing with the hands

Humans carry out about 20,000 respiratory movements every day and the heart beats about 100,000 times a day. These are all movements that happen unconsciously, to which we never have a volitional influence. In doing so, these movements do not happen isolated, but one movement triggers the other, and together they form entire movement chains. Thus, the digestive organs do not work individually, but always in interaction. So the lungs can only supply the body with oxygen, because the heart muscle is constantly pumping oxygen-poor blood into the pulmonary alveoli. By only lifting the foot while walking, we set in motion a muscle chain that extends from the foot to the shoulders. However, if one of the body parts involved is limited in its movement, it can no longer perform its normal function and the effects can then reach into the last link of the movement chain. The concept of osteopathy, the holistic treatment that American physician Andrew Taylor Still discovered and developed over 130 years ago, knows about the movements in the human body and knows about their connections. Whether bones, muscles, organs or vascular system, each area of ​​the human body is - depending on its structure - constantly in motion and can only work that way. That is why the structure is so important in osteopathy. However, muscles, bones, or other areas can not function if they are not continuously supplied with oxygen, nutrients, and hormones through the bloodstream, with cleansing lymph through the lymphatics, with controlling impulses through the nerves. That is why vascular systems play a crucial role in osteopathy. They enable the structure in the first place to function. Osteopathy does not treat diseases. But it helps at the root of the causes of the diseases. Osteopathy „asks why" an illness has broken out and so far has prevented the organism from returning back to a healthy state. Mostly a restriction of movement is the cause of the disease. This restriction will be detected and treated by the osteopath with his hands and various movement tests. In this way, he can help the affected area to regain its natural movement, to its actual function, to give the body the opportunity to heal itself. The osteopath stimulates the self-healing powers by releasing the resistances that stand in the way of healing.