Osteopath in Amsterdam
My priority is your long-term wellness. I care about looking past the symptoms to connect with the person, helping you restore your balance and improve your quality of life.
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What is Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a health care and prevention system based on manual contact for diagnosis and treatment. It respects the relationship of body, mind and spirit in health and disease.
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Find the cause
Traditional allopathic medicine focus on eliminating symptoms. Osteopathy sees symptoms as alarm bells and focus on identifying the root cause, hidden behind the symptoms
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Manual treatment
Osteopathic treatments consist of manipulations and techniques to evaluate, prevent, and resolve neuro-musculoskeletal, cranio-sacral, and visceral disorders
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Restore the balance
The osteopath uses techniques to facilitate your body into independently finding its own state of harmony and well-being
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What can osteopathy help with?
Osteopaths can directly help with the following common disorders.
- Backache, cervical / dorsal pain, sciatica
- Herniated disc, tingling and postural problems
- Headache, dizziness, whiplash
- Nausea, acid reflux, constipation, digestive problems
- Respiratory disorders, asthma, sinusitis, tinnitus
- Sleeping problems, fatigue, burnout
- Pelvic, gynecological or genitourinary disorders (e.g. incontinence or recurrent infection)
- Pains due to pregnancy, sport injury, caused by driving or work strain
Additionally, they can detect conditions which are not treatable with osteopathy but require support from other specialists.
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What to expect from an osteopathic treatment
You can expect your first session to have the following structure:
- Initial case history. Questions about your present and past health.
- Physical examination
- Manual treatment
- Therapeutic path planning
Osteopathy can help you in many ways!
Contact me for a free advice or schedule an appointment
Recent Posts
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Osteopathy can help get better head's shape
As a matter of fact, Osteopathy help get better head’s shape. There are a number of different kinds of cranial asymmetries and each cranial shape exists for its own particular reason that maybe or maybe not be a problem. But when the shape invalidates functions we need to take care of it.
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The Wiplash
A whiplash is an unexpected and sudden movement of the cervical spine due to a variation in speed towards one direction with a sudden change in the opposite direction.
What to expect from an osteopathic treatment?
Patients often have a lot of doubts about what to expect at their first appointment: what will the osteopath ask me, what will he/she do, how do I have to wear, do I have to bring medical tests…etc.