Osteopathy has a global vision in treatment. Usually the area where the pain is located is not the cause of the pain, but the cause is found in another region and due to a series of adaptations, a distant effect occurs.
For example, low back pain (pain in the lumbar region) can be caused by poor foot support, which causes a change in the alignment of the tibia and femur. This will cause a limitation in the movement of the hip and, as a consequence, the lumbar area will be irritated and this pain will manifest itself.
That is why in Osteopathy we work on injury chains. In the example we have given above, we would work on the foot, then the tibia and the femur, then the hip and once the whole chain has been treated, we would check if there has been a change in the pain that the patient was experiencing in the lumbar region.
- Thrust Techniques
- Muscle energy techniques
- Joint techniques