OSTEOPATHIC MANUAL TREATMENT
Osteopathy is a non-invasive complementary medicine practice that strengthens the musculoskeletal system, focuses on total body health and emphasizes the effectiveness of the musculoskeletal system in diseases.
OsteopathyOsteopathy, in the Ministry of Health's Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practices Regulation:
It is defined as a non-invasive complementary medicine practice that helps strengthen the musculoskeletal system including joints, muscles, connective tissue and spine, focuses on total body health and emphasizes the effectiveness of the musculoskeletal system in diseases.
To make osteopathy more understandable, we can perhaps describe it as follows: It is a medical discipline that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of problems in the DYSFUNCTION stage that do not yet show findings in blood tests, imaging methods or other laboratory methods, but cause pain or other clinical complaints in the patient, and applications are performed manually.
Indications
Discomfort due to viscero-somatic functional disorders
Pain syndromes in pregnant women
For supportive purposes in hormonal imbalances
Spinal and musculoskeletal system movement and functional disorders
Acute and chronic pain syndromes of the spine and bone joint system
Spinal disc herniations
Sciatica, brachial neuralgia, sciatic pain, discopathic pain
Joint stiffness and degeneration
Migraine, tension-type headaches
Postural damage
Post-operative rehabilitation on an outpatient basis
Post-accident pain syndromes
Neuromuscular problems such as spasticity, cerebral palsy
Coordination and psychomotor function disorders in children
Psychosomatic syndromes, anxiety, depression
For supportive purposes in chronic neurological diseases (Alzheimer's disease and Multiple Sclerosis)
Sleep disorders
Functional disorders of digestive system, urinary system, urogenital, respiratory and circulatory systems
Contraindications
Unwillingness to apply due to pain
— Bleeding
Prolonged bleeding time
Anticoagulant use
Advanced bleeding/coagulation disorders
— Hemophilia
Internal fixation
Presence of total joint prosthesis
That will disrupt bone and joint stability; tumor, metastatic disease, suppurative arthritis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, bone tuberculosis, early period fractures, acute hematoma
Down syndrome
Acute psychosis