Osteopathy is a "manual medicine". Its practitioners palpate the body to detect tensions or imbalances that cause discomfort or disease, then perform manipulations to restore balance. Osteopathy is a complete system with its own modes of diagnosis and treatment: it treats a wide variety of ailments. Physical and psychological ailments resonate throughout the body. Thus, bad posture, accidents, stress or negative thoughts do not disrupt a single system (musculo-skeletal, digestive, neurological, vascular, hormonal, etc.), but the whole organism
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