Osteopathy is a method of treatment and diagnosis in the arsenal of alternative and, more recently, official medicine. A specialist in this area does not have any additional tools for identifying and treating a problem other than his own hands and knowledge. The doctor perceives the body as a trinity of the body, stimulates the body to self-regulation, restores the unity of the structure and its functions. In general, an osteopath strives for the harmonious work of all systems and organs of the human body and sees this as a guarantee of complete health.
What it is
Osteopathy uses a mild effect on organs, bones, joints, ligaments in therapy. The technique completely excludes jerky, trust methods, which completely excludes the possibility of injury. The doctor acts on each object of the body indirectly and is able to rid the patient even of chronic diseases.
The following diseases respond to this type of therapy :
- Children’s (consequences of birth trauma, alalia, hyper excitability, cerebral palsy, dysarthria, torticollis, dyslexia, enuresis and much more).
- CNS pathology (neurosis, VSD, meteosensitivity, nerve tics, etc.)
- Diseases of the organs of vision (some types of myopia, astigmatism, amblyopia).
- Complications after injuries.
- Any pathology of the organs of motion, musculoskeletal system.
- Otolaryngological diseases.
- Allergic conditions (varieties of rhinitis, bronchial asthma).
- A wide range of pathologies of internal organs.
- Headaches, muscle pains, fatigue syndrome.
- Genitourinary diseases (male, female), including some types of infertility.
- Phlebeurysm.
Also, an osteopathic doctor is able, in some cases, to restore immunity, improve the patient’s general state of health, and properly "tune" the functions of organs.
Directions
Osteopathy is an actively developing area of official medicine, which has recently become a part of it.
The treatment method has several directions:
- Structural - attention is focused on the treatment of skeleton bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. The doctor's task is to restore the physiological location of the vertebrae, joints, muscles. A full course of procedures allows the patient to get the natural position of the musculoskeletal structure and simultaneously get rid of many diseases caused by imbalance of the musculoskeletal system.
- Craniosacral - therapy for disorders of the cranial and sacral bones, pathologies of the connections between the structures of the spine and skull. This section treats headaches, hearing and vision disorders, maxillary abnormalities, and also restores the patient's health after traumatic brain injuries, strokes.
- Visceral - treats internal organs and systems. In the human body, the organs fit tightly together and are fixed using a certain type of ligament. Any displacement of the organ leads to a violation of its functions and serves as a trigger for the unbalance of the whole organism. The osteopath finds the root cause, “rebuilds” the system in a physiological framework, as a result of which most of the pathologies are a thing of the past without the intervention of surgery or medications.
General impressions
Almost all people have problems with the spine and often choose what manual therapy or osteopathy will help in their case. Patient reviews talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods, focusing on the fact that osteopathic manipulations are less traumatic. It is noted that the osteopathic doctor performs, often more effective, for the general state of health, a reception, and not just solves the local problem of a displaced vertebra or a dislocated joint.
In the reviews left after taking a specialist, it is written that it was osteopathy that helped the patients get rid of many diseases. The reviews describe that the treatment process is often accompanied by pain in any one place, but in the end, the next day, not only the pain passed, but the problem itself disappeared, which made it necessary to turn to a specialist.
Some patients, discussing osteopathy, what it is, what heals, reviews write about their understanding of the direction of medicine. Many wrote that a doctor of this specialty was treated only with spinal problems or even narrowed down the range of care for one disease - osteochondrosis. They report that the lesion of the spine as it was, and remains.
Another part of the patients who bothered to learn about the specialization of the referral indicate that treatment of osteopathy is preferred to all types of therapy. The reviews of this part of the users talk about getting rid of a headache, setting small foot bones, which allowed us to get rid of the protruding bone and saved the legs from subsequent deformation. Also in the reviews, it was noted that the general condition became much better - insomnia, anxiety went away, the work of the gastrointestinal tract returned to normal, joints stopped issuing a crunch, etc.
Many personal stories have been written about osteopathy sessions. Reviews with negative reviews indicate difficulties in finding a high-level professional with a classical medical education. Patients believe that osteopathy is one of the best treatment methods that allows you to find health without pharmaceuticals, prolonged and meaningless therapy. This is the main problem - many charlatans offer their services, promising to cure all diseases, while having education only in the amount of three-month courses.
Osteopathy for children. Positive comments
Many parents needed osteopathy for their child. Reviews are written about productive assistance to the young generation of different ages - from infants to adolescents. Moms said that the help of a doctor was useful for the treatment of torticollis, neurological pathologies, injuries and other diseases. Detailed descriptions are left about what problems have been eliminated with the help of a doctor in this specialty. For example, after sessions of osteopathy, a child (2 years old) stopped crying at night, normalized behavior, irritability disappeared, perseverance and a craving for knowledge appeared.
Osteopathy shows excellent results of applying the method for infants. Reviews of parents tell about the beneficial effects on the condition and health of the child. In some cases, just one session was enough to correct a small birth injury. With more global problems, mothers sought help several times. Phones of specialists who have effectively assisted are transmitted by word of mouth, and the number of thanks increases from year to year.
Help to the detriment
Not in all cases the rendered osteopathy was useful to the child. Reviews with negative reviews talk about fruitless visits to the doctor. Some parents fully complied with the instructions of a specialist, the child underwent a full course of treatment using this technique, but no improvement was observed. It is noted that the deterioration also did not happen, which does not add to the eyes of relatives of positivity to the method of treatment.
Some of the parents who turned to osteopaths believe that they were not lucky to find an intelligent specialist, despite the diplomas presented, the status and number of certificates. This is one of the main reasons for dissatisfaction with the method. Osteopathy has become a very fashionable course of healing and therapy. Reviews of patients assure that in connection with the demand, the number of charlatans has increased several times. And to check how this or that specialist corresponds to the declared capabilities is very expensive.
Osteopathy and intervertebral hernia
Protrusion and herniation of the intervertebral discs have long become common diseases, an annual increase in the number of patients with complaints of pain in the spine is observed. Some patients prefer manual therapy, some have to agree to surgery. Patients seeking alternative treatments have chosen osteopathy.
Reviews about this method of hernia treatment are positive. Patients are informed that the disease is not treated, but the help of a specialist eliminates the need to perform an operation that does not give any guarantees. According to people using the services of osteopaths, sessions have to be carried out regularly. Depending on the degree of damage to the spine, a course of therapy is prescribed from once every six months or more often.
Patients write about their own experience with osteopathy for hernia. Reviews say that pain, numbness, restrictions on movements go away, a forgotten lightness appears, sleep is normalized, there is no need to take a large number of medications. However, most patients continue to drink vitamin complexes to support the nervous and skeletal systems.
There is also a negative opinion about the treatment of hernias with osteopathy, but they are concentrated on the persons of the doctors who had to be consulted. To say that the method does not work, none of the disappointed patients can. In negative reviews, it was noted that the specialist provided excellent massage, but not osteopathic treatment.
Other diseases
Autism is diagnosed in childhood, many children outgrow it, and live a full life, not unlike teenagers. For this to happen, parents need to make a lot of efforts, following the recommendations of a neurologist, speech therapist, psychiatrist and other doctors. Quite often, children's doctors give a recommendation to use additional measures in therapy and correction of the general condition of a special child.
Many parents found the combination of osteopathy and autism beneficial. Reviews testify to the achievement of tangible success only if osteopathy is part of a package of measures to overcome pathology. It is noted that the method has a different effect on each child, but there is always a result. In some small patients, sleep improves or prolongs, children become calmer - daily exhausting tantrums disappear, (not everyone) has a focus for some time on any lesson.
Some babies start talking, and those who can do this report that they suffered from headaches before visiting an osteopath. In general, doctors and parents note that the picture of the disease is much easier, which helps in further therapy. Many advise you to contact these specialists, some children do not walk well, talk, and after several sessions, not only progress can be made, but also new skills will appear.
Today, many people have to hear a disappointing diagnosis - a violation of reproductive functions. This happens to men and women, many decide to undergo treatment and become parents. Traditional medicine has vast experience and methods of treating such diseases, but sometimes it is also powerless.
Some specialized specialists advise osteopathy in infertility to their patients. Reviews about the procedures and effect were left by women, men chose to keep their secrets. Patients who received the help of a highly qualified specialist claim that nothing helped them except the course of osteotherapy. After several years of treatment in different clinics, using various methods, women prepared for IVF, but even in this case no one guaranteed success.
The treatment of an osteopath was for the majority the last step to motherhood, rather, from hopelessness. Many claim that several months of weekly sessions not only brought a long-awaited pregnancy, but also helped to lose many diseases. At the same time, the ladies note that perhaps the result would not have been if there had not been all the previous therapy with the doctors of the classical areas of medicine. Some patients said in reviews that, in addition to losing money, they could not get anything useful.
Mokhov Center
In sufficient detail about what osteopathy is, what it is that treats, they will tell in specialized clinics and centers where the main task is the treatment of the spine, musculoskeletal system and skeletal-ligamentous system. One such institution is the Mokhov Institute with branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The clinic offers a full range of osteopathic treatment services for children and adults:
- Osteopathy for children, adults, pregnant.
- Massage for all age groups.
- Advisory reception of a neurologist.
- Homeopathy.
- Baby massage at home.
- Development of an individual nutrition system (DNA nutrition).
- Design and manufacture of orthopedic insoles for individual orders (FORMTHOTICS technology).
Treatment Reviews
The Mokhov Institute of Osteopathy received positive reviews for providing quality care to a large number of patients. Many patients wrote that for several years they had treated various diseases with medical institutions and received conservative treatment that did not solve the problem, but allowed it to coexist. Headache, discomfort and periodic bouts of pain in the lower back or between the shoulder blades, in the neck - these are not the sensations with which you can live normally and fully.
Wanting to gain health and having received advice from the attending physician, which consisted in the need to visit the Mokhov Institute, most patients went to the reception. At the same time, many believed that the recovery obtained using such methods was pure self-hypnosis, some patients insisted that if there was a placebo in the world, then it was osteopathy.
Reviews of patients after several sessions have changed dramatically. With great pleasure and gratitude, the visitors said that the headaches stopped after a certain number of receptions, some managed to again feel the ease of movement and freedom when bending in the lower back. Patients noted that the general condition also improved - sleep normalized, irritability, anxiety disappeared, memory improved, and much more.
Parents left their impressions, whose children were shown osteopathy. Patient reviews are preceded by stories about what problems had to see a doctor. Most often, children with birth injuries and developmental delays were admitted. Before applying for osteopathic help, parents made all possible diagnostic and therapeutic measures, and last of all they were referred to an osteopath.
The reviews say that this type of treatment helped a lot - autistic children got rid of some addictions, began to communicate with adults and other children, some began to talk and understand the rest of the family and strangers. Some children who had the opportunity to communicate, said that they used to live with pain in different parts of the body, but did not know how to report it.
Negative reviews
The Center for Osteopathy and Health received not only laudatory reviews, but also negative ones. They tell us that when appointing an appointment, doctors do not always have time to receive all the signers on time. Sometimes the wait can drag on for 40-60 minutes, and not everyone has enough time to wait. It is especially difficult for parents with children to delay the appointment, some simply had to leave due to the fact that the child was capricious, and it became clear that the appointment would be useless. At the same time, the registry did not offer to postpone the visit to the doctor.
It is also noted that the patient has a lot of questions to the specialist, starting with an elementary request to tell about osteopathy, what it is, what heals. Reviews of patients who did not receive answers complain about the secrecy of doctors or simply their ignorance of what they are doing.
Many felt that the cost of one visit is very expensive, and the result is not guaranteed. Some patients complained that the first appointment with an osteopath is only for questioning, recommendations are given to drink vitamins, more water and the next examination date is set. Visitors felt that in this way the doctor stretches the treatment, multiplying the number of visits and, accordingly, payment. For this reason, visitors no longer trust in the medical field of osteopathy.
Negative reviews are also associated with the fact that specialists prefer to first get the results of the tests - MRI, ultrasound or radiography and only then start treatment.Some clients were sure that a good specialist would know everything only by laying hands on sore spots. It is unlikely that such a look at medicine speaks of the failure of the method; rather, a certain naivety of the patient is noticeable here.
Doctors about the method
Doctors are no less active than patients in discussing osteopathy. Positive and negative feedback from doctors is related to the professionalism and skill level of a specialist who offers his services in the field of osteopathy. Most doctors believe that, first of all, a classical education in an adjacent specialty is necessary - a neurologist, manual therapist, and no less profound knowledge in a new direction. Three-month courses, even from a qualified chiropractor, cannot make a good osteopath. A person with a small amount of knowledge and experience who undertakes treatment will inevitably harm the patient, in some cases, the loss of health will be irreparable.
The benefits of osteopathy have been proven many times, and doctors believe that only this area of therapy can cope with some diagnoses, but not all, as fraudsters sometimes say. Experts are sure that before going to an appointment, you need to read reviews, get full information from a doctor about his education, certificates, and if possible, talk with some of his patients. Having made a complete impression and having arrived at the reception, it is worth asking all the exciting questions and getting clear and unambiguous answers to them. If the doctor does not understand the analysis, does not see the initial picture of the disease, does not listen to complaints - it is better to look for another specialist.