What is osteopathy?
Developed in the United States after the mid-1800s, osteopathy is a form of treatment for the problems with the skeletal system. Orthopaedic osteopathy is one special branch of osteopathy.
What is orthopaedic osteopathy?
Orthopaedic osteopathy is a form of treatment for the pains and problems with the skeletal system, wherein manipulation and mobilisation are utilised as treatment for joint misalignment and malfunction. In addition, focused massage, various forms of movement treatment and guiding the patient with the functions of his body are also a part of osteopathic treatment.
A precise clinical study of the patient is an important part of orthopaedic osteopathy: only this ensures that the treatment is purely focused on the problematic tissue, and it also eliminates possible detrimental risk factors. Our occupational community is closely linked with medicinal facts, and our studies are accurately based on the knowledge of functional anatomy, x-ray diagnostics and neurology. Training in orthopaedic osteopathy provides the readiness for this.
With a clinical study, a practitioner of orthopaedic osteopathy can also guide the patient to further tests at a suitable doctor or specialist, and in the patient's referral present his own opinion on the cause of the problem.
We believe that the stiffening of the joints and metabolic problems in these specific and surrounding areas of tissue are most often the cause with problems in the skeletal system. Muscles often either have to protect the stiff joints or are tense due to problems with the joint, and thus are not the real culprit, though if the muscles alone are the cause of the problem, naturally treatment will focus on them.
Our occupational community is, along with chiropractors and naprapathics, the only medical occupational community with the legal right to perform manipulative treatment to restore skeletal joint movement to a natural state.