Osteopathic Therapy
How Can Osteopathic Manual Therapy Help You?
Eugene Sports and Orthopaedic Medicine Center uses osteopathic manual therapy to help you avoid surgery by improving joint and muscle function resulting from injuries, because it:
- Treats the true cause of your musculoskeletal problem and
- Provides manual therapy that improves physical movement
Why Is Osteopathic Treatment So Effective?
The elegance of osteopathic medical manual therapy is that your body is naturally programmed to function normally. Sometimes an injury causes your body to malfunction. The treatment uses gentle manual techniques that give your body the opportunity it needs to return to normal function.
Osteopathic Manual Treatment Can Be Used If You:
- Have chronic pain due to an accident or injury
- Have pain due to overuse of muscles, tendons, or ligaments, or joints
- Have unresolved discomfort or pain after surgery
- Experience decreased physical function
- Have athletic injuries
- Have lower back pain
- Decreased mobility in hips
- Tension headaches
- Tightness in the neck and shoulders
- Leg and foot discomfort
- Tendonitis
How Does Hands−On Manipulation Work?
Your orthopaedic medical diagnosis may indicate that you have restricted movement in your joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, or facial tissue. After assessing the direction in which your movement is restricted, Dr. Peterson uses gentle manipulation to release the restriction and restore movement, which restores your normal function.
Osteopathic Manual Therapy Includes
- Cranial−sacral therapy
- Gentle hands−on manipulation of spinal and extremity joints and soft tissues
Why Dr. Peterson Uses An Orthopaedic Medical Diagnosis
An Orthopaedic Medical diagnosis is a way of performing a Western medical exam that discovers the underlying cause of your problem. By treating injury at the cause, Dr. Peterson can help you avoid surgery and limit your use of drugs that may mask your symptoms and fail to get to the root of your problem.
Why Dr. Peterson Chose Osteopathic Manual Treatments
After studying osteopathic medicine, Dr. Peterson chose to treat patients using non−surgical therapies that enhance your body’s natural ability to maintain health and recover from injury, without the extensive use of expensive prescription drugs. Osteopathic treatments use hands−on, manipulative therapy that can restore your normal function by working with your body’s own restorative powers.
What Are The Principles Of Osteopathic Medicine?
- The body is a unit.
- Structure and function are inter-related.
- The body possesses natural self-regulatory mechanisms.
- The body has the inherent capacity to repair dysfunction.
- When the normal adaptability is disrupted, or when environmental stresses overcome the body’s capacity for self−maintenance, dysfunction may occur.
- The movement of bodily fluids is essential to the maintenance of health.
- The nerves play a crucial part in controlling the fluids of the body.
The elegance of Osteopathic Manual Therapy is that it enhances your body’s natural ability to be programmed to function in a healthy, normal way.
