Perhaps you do not know it but you are much more than the simple addition of the parts of your body. This is why osteopathy treats the human person as a whole. Instead of stopping with the particular symptoms, it treats you in your globality.

Osteopathy changed the life of million people throughout the world, quote while passing certain well-known personalities to North America, like John D. Rockefeller and Henri Kissinger, as well as former presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

There is now an increasing request for qualified osteopaths, which reflects the desire growing of the patients to solve their problems of health in a more natural way

In will one time marked by spectacular medical progress, a surgery and new drugs increasingly more powerful, of which tools serve the osteopaths? They use their hands.

Osteopathy brings to you what the alternative medicines have of to better offer. The osteopaths can specialize in each recognized sphere of this philosophy, of cranial osteopathy to visceral osteopathy, without forgetting structural osteopathy. They use manual methods of diagnoses and treatments which they call TMO (manipulatif treatment osteopathic).

While making a manipulatif treatment osteopathic, the D.O brings a new dimension to the care of health in the form of therapeutic nonaggressive. The D.O uses the TMO to diagnose, treat and even prevent the disease or the wounds. In certain cases, the TMO can be used jointly with other approaches

For the first time after an interruption of several centuries, Swedish doctors realized, with the nineteenth century, that so only a mechanical treatment could relieve a mechanical pain really of origin, it was absurd to give up it. Thus Ling (1779-1830), creator of the gymnastics known as Swedish, practised visceral handling.

Thure Brandt (1819-1895) is the first to establish a synthesis of the organic manipulatives techniques, and this, precisely on the gynaecological level. This primarily manual method is based on handling on the level of the internal organs with an aim of releasing, of irrigating and of making functional the various bodies. It is inspired directly by the practice of an old family of healers, Sénépart, which, of wire father, had acquired the celebrity while being devoted to Charleroi with the treatment of the diseases of the women.

Henri Stapfer, raises of Brandt, again makes progress the method. Therefore, it is in Brandt and Stapfer that we owe the description of the majority of the manipulatives techniques employed in gynaecology. It is also in Stapfer which one owes the first elements which made it possible to establish the existence of what one names the circulatory lesion, fundamental element in the apprehension of many pathological cases.

Then, a French doctor, Frantz Clénard, carry out a thorough study of the bodies and internal organs of the abdomen and develop methods of examination allowing to determine the faulty operations of them. For him, a normal abdomen is an abdomen which, with palpation, is flexible and homogeneous and does not make it possible to feel the presence of the bodies. Thus, of the hard intestines, a painful stomach, a large palpable liver constitute abnormal, indicating phenomena of tensions, of circulatory deceleration, disorders of the metabolism, fibrosis or adherences, spasms of the visceral muscles.

Clénard is also the first to be thought of the relations of the bodies between them, kind of chain reaction where a defective body, congested, not very mobile or descended (ptôse) will create, by various mechanisms, appearance of disorders on the level of close bodies with which it maintains the mechanical bonds, blood or hormonal.

It is this defective operation, causing a functional disease, that the osteopaths arrange in the category of the osteopathic continuations of the visceral lesions

Cranial osteopathy is a particular approach of the concepts osteopathic. It acts on the structure and the liquid surrounding the central nervous system, which has an impact on the entire body and stimulates the capacity natural of this one car-to be cured. The bonds between the fascias, where that they are located in the body, are contiguous with the membranes surrounding the central nervous system, including the dura mater and the other structures.

The intensive study of cranial osteopathy started in 1939, following research of William Garner Sutherland, doctor osteopath.

The observations of Doctor Sutherland were corroborated by scientific studies. In osteopathy, one recognizes that there is movement, tiny but very important, between the bones of cranium and their joinings. Doctor Sutherland established that there is a palpable movement inside the body, which occurs jointly with the movement of the bones of the head. This movement belongs to a rhythmic movement of the fluids of the body, of vital importance to health, just as with the maximum function of the immune system of the body.

A traumatism with the head or the body can deteriorate or block the circulation of the fluids of the body, having often dramatic and sometimes drastic effects on health of the individual and his capacity to function.

More running of the traumatisms is that of the birth, where the cranium of the sudden baby of the repeated shocks due to pushed during expulsion, or then during a childbirth by suction cup in the case of a difficult work. A deterioration, although hardly perceptible, natural configuration and movement of cranium, can cause problems like the colics, the incapacity of the baby to swallow or frequent régurgitations, the chronic infections of the ear and/or a delay years the development.

The traumatisms can also cause lumbagos, headaches, disorders respiratory and digestive, menstrual pains and repetitive wounds connected to the stress like the tendinitis.

“To make it possible the interior physiological function to express its own infallible power, rather than to have recourse to a force outside plugs. ”

Doctor William Sutherland devoted his life to the advance of osteopathy. As of its beginnings in medicine in 1898, Sutherland started to study the mechanical function of the body and to analyze the alive anatomy of it (the flow of the cranial liquid, the texture of fabrics, the compression of the bones, etc). It made more to advance the concept of “the auto-cure” that any other osteopath of his generation.

One treated it of heretic to have established the principle according to which the central nervous system of the body is in constant rhythmic movement and which this movement is a factor essential with the maintenance of health and human life.

Today, the theory of Doctor Sutherland concerning the physiological structure of the body was proven in a conclusive way thanks to the diagnostic development of computerized equipment.

Doctor Sutherland is recognized for his design of the body like a sophisticated machine. He believed that a dysfunction or a deficiency in one of the parts of the body was to necessarily affect the whole structure.

He summarized the result of his research in a writing entitled “The Five Components of the Primary Respiratory Mechanism” (five elements of the primary respiratory mechanism), which stated for the first time the concept of the continuous rhythmic movement in the body.

Doctor Sutherland identified this alive anatomy and described it as follows:

Movement of the cranial sutûres and the articulations connecting the twenty-six bone of cranium

“Dilation and contraction” of the hemispheres of the brain

Movement of the membranes covering the spinal brain and moëlle

Current of energy inside the céphalo-rachidian liquid bathing the spinal brain and moëlle

Involuntary light movement of the sacrum.

Doctor Sutherland was born in a family from the working class in Wisconsin in 1873. He was the third of a family of four children. In 1895, it fitted in a medical school then discussed, American School of Ostéopathy (maintaining Kirksville College of Osteopatic Medecine). It was distinguished like an extremely gifted student and graduated at the twenty-five years age in 1898.

Doctor Sutherland continued his research and practised medicine in Missouri during the major part of his life. Its devotion and its heat with work were not recognized in its profession, in spite of a number growing of faithful students and grateful patients. To the publication of his first work, Doctor Sutherland very affected by the avalanche of criticisms was directed tale him and one treated it of charlatan because of his theories on the mechanism of primary breathing. It was necessary more quater decades before Doctor Sutherland is not recognized. Today, its work is accepted like an established medical fact.

In 1951, at seventy-eight years old, Doctor Suhterland left Midwest for a more lenient climate with Pacific Grove in California. He died little of time after, in 1954.

Doctor Sutherland left behind him a priceless contribution to osteopathic medicine and his memory, just as the works as it bequeathed us, are very respected of his colleagues, in United States and around the world.