Diagnosis cervical spine syndrome
For many patients, the diagnosis cervical spine syndrome is the beginning of a long therapy period. The acute cervical spine syndrome can often be cured well and permanently by drug therapy and physiotherapy. In chronic cervical spine syndrome, medication and physiotherapeutic exercises can often bring relief, but many patients cannot go through everyday life without pain.
Osteopathy
These patients with mostly chronic cervical spine syndrome often additionally resort to alternative treatment methods. Osteopathy is one of these alternative treatment methods. The term osteopathy comes from the Greek and means as much as bone disease.
However, in addition to bones, it also deals with all structures that are in any way connected with the bones. In addition to muscles, connective tissue and lymph channels, internal organs are also included in this interplay of body structures. Osteopathy comes from the field of manual medicine.
Manual means with the hands. The therapy is therefore based on diagnostics and therapy with the hands. The osteopath will use his hands to assess the body and its signals.
Holistic treatment
The approach of this form of therapy consists of a holistic treatment. Osteopathy regards the human body as a unit in which all the components of our body are connected in some way. Every change in one part of the body has effects on other parts of the body.
An osteopath will therefore look for the cause of the complaints in completely different parts of the body than those that occur and cause complaints. The treatment is therefore not automatically carried out at the site of the complaints. In osteopathy, for example, diseases of the liver, gall bladder and stomach are often associated with headaches and neck pain.
Treatment of these problems can therefore bring relief. Another example is a disorder in the musculature of the leg. There, changes in muscle tension caused by injuries can be carried forward to the neck area as a continuation of the disturbed muscle traits and cause the complaints there. Even events that seem completely unimportant to the patient, such as previous operations, falls and inconspicuous injuries in everyday life can provide important information for the osteopath.