Osteopathy as a discipline in manual medicine is based on the concept that diseases and their symptoms are not accidental or sudden failure, but a logical chaining of various disturbances and influences, e.g. accidents, surgeries, heredity and stress. Only the combination of these, often persistent disorders, prepares the ground for diseases.
The osteopath is aiming not only to alleviate your symptoms, but to treat all body systems (joints, muscles, organs, nerves) in cooperation with your physician in such a way as to achieve an overall physical balance which leads to a healthy organism. Therefore, osteopathy is particularly suitable for the treatment of chronic diseases.The aim is not only to relieve your pain, but to achieve a long-term improvement of your body functions and thus a strengthening of your health as well as prevention.
Craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD) causes discomfort which is directly or indirectly associated with the head and jaw joints as well as the cranial bones.
Causes of altered craniomandibular joint mobility may include e.g. whiplash traumas, accidents with head injury, misalignment of the jaw joints and malocclusion of the teeth, but also malposition of the pelvis or changes in the cervical or thoracic spine. For instance, an unfavourable head posture causes a rearward displacement of the lower jaw, so that the teeth are no longer aligned for a precise bite.
A tooth extraction, after which the missing tooth is not replaced by a bridge or an implant, can lead to malocclusion and the adjacent teeth may gradually migrate towards the gap.As a long-term consequence, very painful changes may occur in the craniomandibular joints.
Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a very gentle form of therapy using light-touch with a profound, positive effect. The main focus of the treatment is the head (cranium) and the sacrum. Via these key points, the practitioner can release tension in the entire body. Craniosacral therapy is particularly suitable for chronic head and back pains and for a deep physical and mental relaxation.
