Adult / RM 200 ‚ child / RM 150

Osteopathy is a system of diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of medical conditions.It works with the structure and function of the body, and is based on the principle that the well-being of an individual depends on the skeleton, muscles, ligaments and connective tissues functioning smoothly together.osteopaths work to restore your body to a state of balance, where possible without the use of drugs or surgery.Osteopaths use touch, physical manipulation, stretching and massage to increase the mobility of joints, to relieve muscle tension, to enhance the blood and nerve supply to tissues, and to help your body’s own healing mechanisms.They may also provide advice on posture and exercise to aid recovery, promote health and prevent symptoms recurring.

Osteopaths‚ patients include the young, older people, manual workers, office professionals women, children and sports people.Patients seek treatment for a wide variety of conditions, including back pain, repetitive strain injury, changes to posture in pregnancy, postural problems caused by driving or work strain, the pain of arthritis and sports injurie

WHAT IS OSTEOPATHY? FOR WHO? WHY? WHEN?

Osteopathy is a manual therapy borned in the USA and spread in Europe threw England and France.

Osteopathy is a 6 years studies. It’s based on the perfect knowledge of the medical sciences (anatomy, physiology, embryology, ‚Ķ), and a hard training of the osteopathic sciences :

Osteopathic knowledge, manual test and manipulation of skeleton, cranial sphere, visceral organs, ‚.

The therapists must learn to feel the body and all its tensions, learn how to communicate with it to understand how and where is the body is unbalanced.

Osteopathy propose to treat the cause of body’s troubles and not only symptoms, like most of drugs.

It helps the body to recover when it’s unbalanced. This unbalance can be caused by many different events and gives you all kind of troubles :

• Car accident, whiplash injury, accident in general.
• Injuries (sport or other)
• Fracture
• All surgery
• Orthodoncy
• Psychological traumatic events
• Pregnancy, delivery
• Birth: the first traumatism of our life !

Why treating new born, babies and pregnant women?

Pregnant women have a lot of troubles due to the changes of pregnancy (nausea, constipation, urinary troubles, headache, back pain, sciatic pain,). Osteopathy will help your body to adapt those changes and makes you support them in the best way. It also prepares and balances the body in order to deliver in the best conditions.

The first traumatism of our life is our birth. The body is compressed, deformed. Also, delivery can be difficult: forceps, cesarean, vacuum extractor, other difficulties, fractures.

Hopefully the body is a marvellous mechanic and it can adapt to lots of situations. But as the paediatrician makes his examination to check the health, the osteopath must make his control. A little unbalance in a young body can be the cause of a simple colic, but can also be the cause of a future scoliosis.

What kind of troubles must make you think about Osteopathy?

• Headache, migraine
• Back pain, all type of pains
• Neurological signs: sciatic neuritis, neuralgia (face, cervical )
• Hypertension, hormonal trouble

Visceral pain or trouble : constipation, gastritis, stomach hernia, colic, urinary trouble, pain during your periods, cystitis, infertility,…

It’s important to understand that the cause of your trouble (surgery, pregnancy, accident, ‚Ķ) can happened one month or 30 years before the apparition of the trouble. It depends on the capacity of your body to adapt the unbalance caused. Some have a better vitality than others. This vitality is determined and developed the day of your birth, according the balance you receive that day. That means, have you been treated by your osteopath?

IMPORTANT NOTE:

All those troubles can be caused by organic troubles, this is under the medical competence. Osteopathy proposes to treat only the non-organic troubles. During the interrogatory the osteopath will decide if it’s something he can treat. If not, he will send you with the competent person.