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.
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.
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
Manual treatment
Osteopathic treatments consist of manipulations and techniques to evaluate, prevent, and resolve neuro-musculoskeletal, cranio-sacral, and visceral disorders
Restore the balance
The osteopath uses techniques to facilitate your body into independently finding its own state of harmony and well-being
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.
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!
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Recent Posts
Flat Head Syndrome in Babies: How Osteopathy Can Help
Many parents notice their baby developing a flat spot on the head during the first weeks of life. This is called positional plagiocephaly, commonly known as flat head syndrome. It is surprisingly common and, in most cases, it improves with time and the right approach. Osteopathic treatment is one gentle, hands-on option that a growing body of clinical research supports for reducing cranial asymmetry in young infants.
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.