The art of practicing Osteopathy, which means the consciously done palpation, is based on a philosophic and scientific foundation

Osteopathy is a specific view point, which enables certain therapeutic procedures to release restricted motion, to enable unrestricted circulation, nerve and energy supply and to release resources which allow healing in the best possible way. The art of practicing Osteopathy, which means the consciously done palpation, is based on a philosophic and scientific foundation.

 Through palpatory perception of normality or of homeostatic forces, the osteopath tries to get close to the wholeness of the patient. The first and most important foundation for the osteopath is the sensory experience of normality, meaning the health in the tissue. That is not a mechanical or technocratical palpation, but a deep, subjective experience, which, according to Sutherland can be experienced most clearly in a state of stillness.

I especially want to recommend the following publications:

Contributions of Thought by W.G.Sutherland, die first edition of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field by H.I.Magoun, aswell as the books by Rollin Becker.

2.  The following part shows the bones of the skull and important anatomical structures.

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