If you think medicine is only about prescription drugs, osteopathic well care can improve your life. By preventing disease, osteopaths keep you healthy and don't just treat individual parts.
The type of treatment that an osteopath prescribes will depend on the patient and the diagnosis. It could be prescription pills, manipulation, injections, even surgery. You don't always need spinal surgery for back or neck pain. You can try nonsurgical treatments first.
Here's why you should try osteopathic medicine
Osteopathy uses the same diagnostic tools and techniques as conventional medicine, X-rays and lab tests included, but it's not like conventional medicine. In order to promote optimal health and wellbeing, osteopathy recognizes the body as an interconnected organism, with all its parts interdependent on one another.
Preventing illness and disease is the whole point of osteopathic wellness. Osteopathy isn't about healing existing disease, but preventing it from happening. Osteopathic medicine uses techniques and knowledge from both the East and the West to provide comprehensive care.
Osteopaths keep you healthy with regular exams. Exams include taking your blood pressure, checking your vital stats, checking your diet, checking your medication regimen, lifestyle factors, how much exercise you get, and how stressed out you are.
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The goal is to figure out the patient's habits, stress levels, nutrition and fitness levels. As these areas are essential to preventing disease, they improve a patient's overall health.
- In osteopathy, the goal is to reduce pain, improve range of motion, and restore function. Some of the methods used are as follows:
- Articulation increases range of motion by moving joints.
- When thrusting, the joint is moved against its resistance in order to restore motion
- An effective counterstain can help alleviate tender or trigger points.
- Myofascial release involves stretching muscle tissue in order to reduce muscle tension and pain.
- Strong muscles are strengthened by muscle energy while tight muscles are relaxed.
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