How can Osteopathy be so beneficial for so many conditions?
(back to top) Most people in Western cultures tend to associate certain therapies as helping only certain health problems, even in holistic medicine. Osteopathy’s reach is nearly unlimited, because it works to strengthen and restore the body’s own powerful healing energies. D.O.s understand that within the body is the ultimate physician, and that it is the Osteopath’s role to bring that inner health forth. They do that primarily through their manual techniques to remove restrictions to motion in the body – both in structure and in circulation. All cells of the body require nutrients delivered, waste products removed, and nerve signals flowing to function properly. The more unencumbered the body is at doing these basic tasks everywhere, the healthier it can operate. Osteopaths free up these pathways, allowing the body to do what it does best – heal and maintain itself.
