In principle, any 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 of the musculoskeletal system
• Problems of the digestive tract
• Migraines, headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, etc.
• Kidney and bladder problems
• Skin problems

Congestions of all kinds such as hemorrhoids, varicose veins, lymph congestion, etc. Acute illnesses such as heart attacks, serious infections, psychological crises, etc. are not part of an osteopath's immediate field of work. However, osteopathic follow-up therapy is often of great benefit here in order to restore the mobility of 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 paraphrased as "diseases or illnesses caused by the misalignment or immobility of bones". However, the term osteopathy is a much broader term.

Osteopathy is a manual, hand-guided treatment method. Using gentle grips and targeted touches, the osteopath releases, decongests and frees everything in the body that is not flowing, moving or pulsating correctly. This can be energy, cerebrospinal fluid or spinal fluid, but also lymphatic fluid, blood, tissue fluid or oxygen.

In a living organism, everything must be in constant motion. Even within the individual, tiny cell, the cell components have to move. Where movement is disturbed, "stagnant water" forms. No oxygen, nutrients, vitamins or minerals can get in there and the waste products cannot be removed.

And this is exactly where the germ, the potential for the development of a disease, arises: vascular calcification, osteoporosis, infections, damaged intervertebral discs, osteoarthritis, tumors or cancer.

A "still water" can arise from numerous processes, such as an injury, as a result of inflammation, surgery, scars or chemical medication, etc.

Regeneration is always accompanied by flow and movement. The osteopath restores this vital, life-saving movement and thus enables the processes that are necessary for healing.

The osteopath treats 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.

For example, an intervertebral disc problem can be a question of congestion in the intestine or heart problems can be the result of a rib blockage. This means that the cause-and-effect principle is very important in osteopathy.
Osteopathy touches. You are in good hands with a good osteopath.

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

William Garner Sutherland (1873-1954), a student of Still's, extended the osteopathic concept to the cranial region. He thus founded craniosacral osteopathy, which was later separated from osteopathy by the American osteopath John Upledger in particular and named craniosacral therapy in its own right.

D.D. Palmer (1845-1913) came to visit Kirksville, was a guest in Still's house for two weeks and familiarized himself with the new manual techniques of osteopathy. In 1898, he renamed his training center "Palmer Cure & Infirmary", founded in 1887, to "Palmer School and Infirmary of Chiropractic". There he taught the osteopathic techniques, partly in a modified form, but without teaching the holistic concept. He thus reduced osteopathy in his so-called chiropractic to a purely symptom-oriented treatment system.

After the USA, osteopathy first spread to Great Britain. In England, Littlejohn's osteopathy was coined by 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 the holistic concept once again becoming increasingly important in various training centers.