What is involved in osteopathic treatment?
Osteopaths consider each patient as individual. Osteopaths focus on the underline cause of a presenting problem and they consider how the whole body's movements have contributed to maintaining the problem.
A Comprehensive Case History
A diagnosis is made by obtaining a detailed medical history with physical examination. Questions are asked about the problem area, with other related areas which helps the osteopath to formulating a diagnosis.
A Physical Examination
A series of simple movements and few tests.The use of appropriate, medically screening test to see what structures are involved. These tests compromises of following areas (orthopaedic, osteopathic, neurological, and vascular). Here some functional, mechanical and patho-physiological changes to tissues are determined.
Questions
Questions are asked about patient general health, lifestyle, as well as the specific problem that brings them to the osteopath. Based on these findings treatment plan is made. Once the diagnosis has been made a treatment plan will be discussed with the patient, then treatment is resumed.
