Osteopathy is a balanced and open-spirited view of medicine and a distinctive art, supported by extensive scientific knowledge.
Based on straightforward, humane principles, Osteopathy allows both practitioner and patient to restore natural function and balance through work on the body and its tensions.

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Anatomy & Osteopathy
The interest of practitioners of osteopathy is the study of human anatomy and physiology. Osteopaths focus on tracing the changes in function that have occurred over a period of time. This is in order to try to understand the chain of events that have altered the relationship between structure and function, resulting in the present complaint.

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Osteopathic Principles

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(1) The Body is a Unit

(2) Structure and function are reciprocally inter-related

(3) The body possesses self-regulatory mechanisms

(4) The body has the inherent capacity to defend and repair itself

(5) When the normal adaptability is disrupted, or when environmental changes overcome the body’s capacity for self maintenance, disease may ensue

(6) The movement of body fluids is essential to the maintenance of health

(7) The nerves play a crucial part in controlling the fluids of the body

(8) There are somatic components to disease that are not only manifestations of disease but also are factors that contribute to maintenance of the disease state

These are principles not empirical laws, nor are they commandments; they are ideas that inform the osteopathic study of the basic medical sciences, they are not an alternative to orthodox medical sciences but the basis of a philosophy that informs the osteopathic approach to health and disease.

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