Manual therapy - the art of treatment with hands

Under manual therapy is meant the art of healing with hands, known since ancient times. It combines various systems of manual exposure to the human body with the aim of strengthening its health, diagnosing and correcting biomechanical diseases and disorders.

What is manual therapy? This is a unique technique for the treatment of the musculoskeletal system without the use of equipment, a scalpel or medicines, which can relieve pain, restore flexibility to the spine and freedom of movement to the affected joints.

Manual therapy - a means of recovery and correction of the body after injuries, surgical intervention, damage and pathological processes of the musculoskeletal system. Methods of treatment help to get rid of injuries, spinal hernia, changes affecting the work of muscles, joints; Diseases of internal organs, disorders in the respiratory system, endocrine and other pathologies.

The most popular manual therapy associated with impaired functions of the motor system. Recently, these pathologies are quite common. Scoliosis, arthrosis, osteochondrosis and other diseases often occur asymptomatically. Violations in the spine, inextricably linked to the spinal cord, coordinating the work of internal organs, contribute to the development of other diseases. And they, in turn, provoke headaches, dizziness, frequent bronchitis, colds, gastritis, intestinal problems, chronic fatigue and many other problems. Conventional drug therapy in such cases is ineffective, because only heals the disease, but does not eliminate the symptoms and the causes of its manifestation.

Manual therapy makes it possible to get rid of post-traumatic pains, headaches, dizziness caused by pathologies in the cervical spine, discomfort in the chest and other pathological manifestations of osteochondrosis. Methods of manual medicine are successfully used in neonatology for birth injuries of the spine in newborns, in pediatrics, in gynecology with the revealed disorders of the functionality of the pelvic organs. It is quite effective to use its techniques in pathologies of the kidneys, urinary tract.

In manual medicine, the following areas are distinguished:

1. Manual therapy of joints and Spine, consisting of a dosed manual exposure. This method is most widely used in European countries and the United States.
2. Visceral manual medicine, affecting the internal organs located in the abdominal and thoracic cavity. A similar method has spread in Southeast Asia.
3. Craniopathy, or craniosacral medicine, consisting in the manual action on the skull and pelvic bones. This direction is widely used in Africa, Asia, Australia.

Manual medicine is often included in a complex of hardware and conservative techniques, but it is often used as a separate program. The effectiveness of therapy is always higher when it is alternated with courses of phytotherapy, reflexology, physiotherapy, massage and therapeutic gymnastics.

The art of healing hands plus the desire of the patient to maintain proper physical form are able to defeat the disease and permanently preserve the results achieved. The main thing is that all procedures are performed not just a healer or a masseur, but a certified manual therapist of high qualification.

Manual therapy, despite its universality, has contraindications. These are chronic traumas, malignant neoplasms, disorders of cerebrospinal, cerebral circulation, mental disorders.

It is also worth knowing that a wider range of applications is distinguished by osteopathic techniques. Their tandem with manual therapy is quite effective. The rapid mechanical impact of manual therapy helps to solve problems such as joints, vertebrae, jamming of nerve endings, etc. And to fix the correct position of tissues and organs, osteopathy helps to adapt them to the corresponding positive changes.