By Thomas Seebeck
Osteopathy is on everyone’s lips. so as to realize their sufferers’ difficulties, osteopaths hire complete ability and data in regards to the constitution and serve as of the human physique. A little-known truth, notwithstanding, is that the osteopathic innovations and ideas are splendidly fitted to self-treatment, as in simple terms the sufferer himself has an immediate hyperlink to his internal self.
the 1st a part of the publication explains the foundations of osteopathic treatment.
The book’s major half is then the “osteopathic medication cupboard” with forty five routines for all components of the physique, from complications to ankle sprains.
Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Your first osteopathic self-treatment
- The 3 planes of movement
Part 1: Osteopathic Principles
- Unlike you'll think
- Direct and oblique technique
- Direct and oblique process in nature
- Osteopathy – helping nature’s therapeutic powers
- “Activating Forces”
- Two specific techniques
- Strain-Counterstrain (SCS)
- Myofascial unencumber (MFR)
- The “onion of discomfort”
Part 2: The osteopathic medication cabinet
- Head
- Chronic Sinusitis (sinus infection)
- Impaired imaginative and prescient / eye muscle mass / vertigo
- Accommodation (accommodating close to and much sight)
- Tired eyes
- Headaches
- Sensitive points
- Discomforts within the zone of the forehead
- Discomforts at the part of your head – parietal bone exercise
- Discomforts at the aspect of your head – temporal bone exercise
- Discomforts behind your head
- Mandibular joint / teeth
- Discomforts within the jaw-area
- Discomforts within the sector of your teeth
- Discomforts within the throat area
- Difficulties swallowing
- Voice problems
- Spine
- Cervical spine
- Discomforts within the neck radiating into the head
- The region of the thoracic spine/chest/ribs – sitting down
- The quarter of the thoracic spine/chest/ribs – standing
- The counterstrain workout for the chest area
- Exercise with superior pain
- Discomforts of the lumbar spine
- The “waves at the ocean” exercise
- Unstable backbone – “no plane”
- Unstable backbone – “maybe plane”
- Exercise choice at the “yes plane”
- Pelvic area
- Discomforts within the sector of the pelvic floor
- Discomforts within the quarter of the sacroiliac joint
- Discomforts within the gluteal area
- Hip joint problems
- The sector of the hip joint/pubic bone/adductors
- Knee joint
- Knee workout “healing hands”
- Knee workout “turning”
- Exercise for the stability of the knee muscles
- Feet
- Problems with the higher ankle joint
- Problems with the reduce ankle joint
- Sprained ankle
- Toes
- Basic workout while facing toe problems
- Hallux-valgus (big toe in X-position)
- Shoulders
- Basic workout for shoulder discomforts
- Dysfunctions within the region of the acromioclavicular joint
- Discomforts while lifting your arm to the front
- Elbows
- Basic workout with discomforts of the elbows
- “Tennis elbow”
- Wrists
- Basic workout for difficulties within the wrist
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Alternative workout “carpal tunnel syndrome”
- Fingers
- Basic workout for fingers
- For physique, spirit and soul
- Centering exercise
- Exercise of the interior alchemy
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