Steve Paulus Osteopathy

This is Osteopathy...

Osteopathy is a comprehensive system of healing based upon a clinical philosophy that utilizes a hands-on form of manual medicine called Osteopathic Manipulation. Osteopathy was discovered and developed by a frontier physician named Andrew Taylor Still in the late 1800s. Osteopathy is not just a system of manual medicine but it is a practical and intelligent means of being with a patient in a holistic way.

Osteopathic Manipulation utilizes the materials and methods from life itself. We remove the obstructions that prevent the free flow of material fluids. We engage the subtle inherent forces that form the essence of a living human being. We use our hands to help restore motion so that the natural remedies found inside the body can do the work of healing. Repair and recovery from disease depend upon reducing separation of the parts and restoring the power of what we call connected oneness. Taken as a whole, the body is greater, stronger, and more durable than any of its parts.

The Osteopath finds the Health within the body, then through the diagnostic process identifies the disease or dysfunction. Ultimately, we reconnect the dysfunction with the Health and then allow Nature to do the real work of healing.

My intention during an osteopathic treatment is . . .

To engage what A. T. Still called the “unnamed forces of healing,”
which are the inherent therapeutic processes naturally found in the body.

To restore normal motion to the structure.

To enhance the ability of the organism to adapt to changes in its environment.

To help re-establish a state of connected oneness.

"The biologic field of Health is that sense of aliveness felt
in the body of a patient by the Osteopath. Health is our perceptual reference point in an Osteopathic Treatment,
we do not orient the treatment around disease."

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