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Some advices before visiting osteopath


 

 

Part 1 What is necessary to know?

 

  1. It’s desirable to use minimum of artificial odors (perfumes, deodorants and the like). A experienced doctor uses for diagnosing all sources of information at hand including patient’s body. In Old China there was a school of odoral medicine, where they diagnosed a disease only on the basis of odors (http:/www.grig.spb.ru/Papers/n_kartina.htm).
  2. It’s desirable to come in time – not later or early than specified time. In both cases you can draw the doctor away from a patient. If you come at the wrong time, find out, please, if it’s convenient for the doctor to receive you at that time.
  3. It’s totally wrong to wait that the pain if it exists can go away immediately during the session. Though there are such cases, more often organism reacts either during three days after the session or gradually during a month and a half. It’s possible that a character of pain will change during the session. You should keep a watch on it. It will help the doctor to correct the treatment.

 

If you come to the session in bad mood, be it either because of ailment or because of something else, it doesn’t stimulate the doctor to work better. Most likely that your mood will pass to the doctor and chances for being cured will vanish. Try to sleep enough before the session, have a bite but don’t be stuffed full and dispose yourself to a serious team-work with the doctor. In such a work it’s better to hang together for the common good.

 

It’s not worth to give way to excessive hopes and euphoria. “Doctor, an acquaintance of mine had aches during two years and you managed to remove the pains in one session. I rely on you very much”. Your situation may differ from that of the person who gave the recommendation. And you may feel deeply disappointed without any reason.

 

Generally, fortune plays a large role in treatment, though even more important, as I have already mentioned, is a team-work of a patient and a doctor.

 

Feedback is of great importance for it provides 50 % of success. So, please, don’t be lazy and describe how you are feeling before the session, after it and in every time when something interesting is happening in your body.

 

Before the session try to familiarize yourself with the information from this site, some other sites dedicated to osteopathy; and, if possible, find and read the excellent book:

 

Íîâîñåëüöåâ Ñâÿòîñëàâ (Novoseltsev Svyatoslav)

 

Îñòåîïàòèÿ. Îñíîâíûå ïðè¸ìû ëå÷åíèÿ è ñàìîïîìîùè. (Osteopathy. The main techniques of treatment and self-help).

Èçäàòåëüñòâî: ÑÏá: Íåâñêèé ïðîñïåêò

Ïåðåïë¸ò: ìÿãêèé; 160 ñòàíèö; 2003 ã.

 

You can order it here. Or try to find it in book-stores. Plentiful of information, this book will allows avoiding redundant questions and helps both the patient and the doctor to be concentrated on treatment. This is also true about general examination of literature on your sickness.

 

If there are many people inside or outside the cabinet waiting, it diverts the doctor and worsens the quality of treatment.

 

The presence of patient’s child in the cabinet during the session reduces the efficacy on 50 %. Estimate your time and possibilities; enlist the support of grannies and baby-sitters. It’s better to wait for your relatives outside or in the car.

 

At the session it’s necessary to undress to underwear. Women should take off or unfasten the upper part of underwear to open the back.

 

Part II. The list of questions not to ask at the session

 

  1. Doctor, what’s up with me?

 

The question lacks concreteness. It’s not possible to answer it.

 

  1. Doctor, what should I do?

 

See above

 

  1. Doctor, I’ve got osteochondrosis?

 

Osteochondrosis is not a disease but a radiologic (X-ray) symptom denoting changes in cartilages and vertebra.

 

  1. Doctor, I have a nerve jamming by the intervertebral disc, haven’t I?

 

 

The intervertebral disc is located 5-10 mm above the nerve outlet so it can never jam the nerve. Nerve can be jammed by a growth or when theres’ a bone destruction as a result of tuberculosis or osteoporosis in the third stage. Back pain emerges because of spasm in the deep muscular system of the back. The pain passing to the leg emerges because of spasm in the deep long muscles of legs and in fascial structures surrounding neurovascular bundle.

 

  1. Other doctor told me different things?

 

I’m not responsible for opinions and competence of other doctors and I know for sure that patients when retelling a doctor’s opinion miss many important things. That is why medical ethics doesn’t allow discussing and, even more so, condemning opinions and actions of colleagues.

 

  1. Can you advice me some exercises to do?

 

There are lots of different kinds of gymnastics, sports; there are lots of books and internet sites dedicated to this subject. Without any doubt, it’s better to do the simplest bodily exercises 5 minutes a day than to dream during 5 years about the most advanced yoga. It’s better to do those exercises or sport which you like and which brings you good emotions. For someone this is dances and for another one – swimming and for somebody else – yoga, football, etc. The worst thing is to do nothing. 15 minutes of energetic walk in the park is an exercise too!

 

  1. Should I warm the ill part, put an ointment on it or fix it with the corset?

 

No, you shouldn’t! Fixing, warming and so forth only take away natural muscular tone, which is especially important in the case of illness. The back likes cold better than warmth.

 

  1. When should I visit you next time?

 

In osteopathy there’s no fixed reception course. Everything depends on patient’s organism. How many times should the patient come and how often, this is defined by the patient himself. You don’t ask in the restaurant when to come next time, don’t you? You can come tomorrow if you want or in the nest month. Or if you didn’t like it, you won’t come anymore at all.

 

If you take these recommendations into consideration, osteopathic sessions will be more effective, your health and mood will become better and time and power that will be released as the result of osteopathic treatment will help you live better and longer.