Definition, frameworks and Models

Osteopathy releases your biology so you are healthier....
Osteopathy releases your body so you move better....
Osteopathy releases your emotions so you feel differently....
Osteopathy releases your sense of self so you can be more.....

Osteopaths don't 'do' techniques - they do osteopathy

Osteopaths think osteopathically - this is NOT the same as doing so called 'osteopathic techniques'.  Look to see if someone trained as and gained a recognised osteopathic qualification.  Many of these practitioners then register in their country of practice.  Some don't, but if they display an osteopathic qualification, then they should think osteopathically. 

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Understanding Osteopathy

On Structure and Function interrelationships and Osteopathy.
Through myriad biological communication pathways the structure and function relationship is taken to mean that the structural organisation of the body affects biological oscillations, biological feedback loops, including all neuroendocrine immune feedback loops are self regulatory pathways.
Thus structure is considered to contribute to biological feedback, and may interfere with effective and appropriate self regulation, homeostasis and thus health.
Furthermore where structure does provide a barrier to effective communication, it may contribute to the development of pathology and dysfunction, and may limit the effectiveness of self regulation, healing and health in such circumstances, or even when non structural causes of pathology exist.
Structure is considered to be a barrier to communication if it triggers neural, chemical, immune, mechanistic, bioelectrical or other signalling pathways in the body, whether through tissues, through nerves or by challenging the passage of any and all bodily fluids.
The osteopathic ontology is that structure may move from supporting health to limiting health, and that epistemologically osteopaths derive knowledge of their craft explicitly through hands on engagement with and through a persons body and tissues so that they can identify structural dynamics that they seek to influence by various means, to reduce barrier to communication, thereby enhancing the self regulatory capacity of the person, their health status, agency, mental, emotional and social wellbeing and function.

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