There are approximately 650 muscles in the human body. All of them have muscular tone, in other words, they are contracted to a greater or lesser degree.Muscles have a greater capacity for adaptation, modifying both their content and shape more than any other organ. One can recover from a severe atrophy within a short time, thanks to training, just as lack of use leads to atrophy causing the muscle to reduce in size and strength.They always act globally; an electromyographic study showed that the ...
If we continue with the example of the tent, we will see how it is an automatic element: if any external force moves the tent, when this disappears the tent returns to its initial position. This is due to the elasticity of its wiring.If we imagine the musculoskeletal system as the tent, this automatism of returning to its initial position is the self-healing capacity of the human being. This is the most important concept in osteopathy.Just as when we acquire a tent not all the cables or wires are ...
The ideal example would be that of the tent, an apparently weak structure but used in extreme conditions, in such a way that although it is buffeted by weather conditions, it will always recover its shape.The function of the tent is to permit adaptation to the external medium, on condition that its structure remains intact.If we imagine the musculoskeletal system as a tent, the interior of which includes the functional systems of the human being with the mission of balancing the internal medium with ...
The human being is an indivisible whole.If a movement is made in the subastragalar joint, movement is also obtained in the remainder of the structural, visceral and craniosacral system. If for example we are out walking and we sprain our ankle (and there is no loss in tissue continuity) we will begin to limp until this movement affects the remainder of the body.When the osteopath explores and locates the anomaly in the movement of the foot, he or she will find the same anomaly in the rest of the ...
Osteopathy is alternative medicine with the same objective as traditional medicine (health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing) but which employs different concepts or a different philosophy, based on the ideas of its founder, Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917):• The concept of globality• The concept of self-healing• The concept of structure governing functionThe application of osteopathy is based on good osteopathic diagnosis on the back of these basic concepts, ...
