SUMMERY
| WHAT IS AQUATIC OSTEOPATHY ? |
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Aquatic Osteopathy is a new adaptation of ‘traditional’ osteopathy’ into a warm water 37,2°C (97°F) environment. The patient rests on floats disposed around the neck and ankles, maintaining a stable position while being partially immersed. The patient then relaxes while the osteopath, also in the pool, executes the treatment session. Visceral technique: Emptying the stomach |
The basic principles of aquatic osteopathy are the same as those that govern ‘traditional’ osteopathy.
First, the role of the artery is absolute. This implies that a mechanical pressure applied on a conducting vessel: blood, lymph or nerve, may cause a dysfunction (malfunctioning) of an organ or a system which is supplied by this vessel.
This fact leads us to the second principle of the interdependency between structure and function.
Any given organ can not function properly if its constituents structures are deficient. For example, the hepatic parenchyma, the cells making the liver, the blood vessels irrigating it, the nerves innervating it, the ligaments holding it into place as well as the gall-bladder, all participate into the functional unit of the liver. All these structures are closely related in helping the liver to accomplish its main functions: purification (purging), stocking. And vice-versa, if the liver functions are not carried-out properly then its own constituent structures will suffer.
The body can not be arbitrarily separated compartmentalized) into pieces. The third principle: The body works into functional units. An organ can not be treated individually. Let us go back to our example of the liver: The osteopath will manipulate the liver, the diaphragm and the vertebral column levels from which the innervation of the liver come from (T5 to T9) as well as the other organs which articulate with it: stomach, right kidney and gallbladder. The body is a unity and osteopathy addresses the patient in it’s wholeness.
The body has auto-regulation capacities, is our forth principle. By restarting the movements of the functional unit of the liver, we unblock
its structures and the body under normal conditions will heal itself.
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