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Osteopathy by Ashley Robinson
Osteopathy is suitable for people of all ages. Ashley has worked on babies a few minutes after being born right through to people in their last hours of life.
Because osteopathy is in harmony with life and treats people not conditions, it can be a great help in all sorts of situations.
Osteopathy was originated by Andrew Taylor Still in 1865 following the death of his wife and children from one of the epidemics that swept across the American Midwest in those days. Dr Still was a medical student, but after the best available medicine failed to save his family, he put his efforts into understanding how a healthy body functions.
His three principles of Osteopathy are:
- 1. Structure governs function. Osteopaths are widely acknowledged as being highly competent in understanding and treating body structures, e.g. joints and muscles. But osteopathy goes far beyond that and can enhance the function of the body as a whole as well as its parts.
- 2. The rule of the artery is supreme. This means that without good circulation and good drainage, health is not possible. A lot of Osteopathic treatment is aimed at improving these functions.
- 3. The body manufactures its own medicines. In essence, this refers to the body’s innate ability for self-regulation, self-maintenance and self-repair. Amazingly, Dr Still made this pronouncement long before the discovery of endorphins, chemicals produced by the body in response to stress or pain.
In the great Spanish flu epidemic of 1919-1921 when 50 million people died worldwide, it is recorded that osteopaths were far more successful than doctors. Only 1% of Osteopathic patients died, whereas over 10% of patients treated by doctors died. (Walter McKone).
A fundamental foundation of Osteopathic philosophy is that each person is unique. Recognising and responding to these variations between people leads to a diagnosis & treatment that is also unique. Two people may present with the same symptom picture, but the underlying causes for the problems may be quite different, so the appropriate treatment will be different. Osteopaths treat people not conditions.
There is a wide variety of techniques used by osteopaths, but all of them involve working on the patient’s body with the hands. The techniques that Ashley uses are gentle, non-invasive but profoundly effective. Generally he finds that Cranial Osteopathy is what will answer the body’s needs best of all.
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