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A Methodology of Preventive Medicine

HEALTH DESTINATION is above all a methodology of Preventive Medecine.

It is part of clean living. Brushing the teeth and the tongue has been practised in China on a daily basis for thousands of years; in the West it has only been practised for one century. In the same way as acupuncture has become preventive medecine in China. HEALTH DESTINATION is part of our contemporary way of life just like going to the hairdresser’s or doing a regular physical activity. During the consultations the osteopath equally recommends a healthy well-balanced diet.

«The well-fed body possesses in itself the elements and the potential to maintain itself in good health and to regulate itself» as Dr A-T STILL wrote.

WHY ?

«Life is movement»

With his body and his system of thought, HOMO SAPIENS (from the animal kingdom the mammal called human is capable of the most noble deeds as well as the most awful ones) is a set of functions organised and gifted with a great capacity to adapt to all sorts of environments and situations such as floating or working in space or at the bottom of the ocean. The human race let us remind ourselves is one of the most complexly organised systems and one of the most-well formed that the known universe has been able to elaborate since the big bang. We are the result of 15 billion years of continual evolution of the Universe.(see my thesis Osteopathy and Evolution A.Bournet, 2003)

Everyone can imagine that this organism so evolved is armed with systems of self-regulation by which I mean that it possesses its own means to self-correct hundreds of weaknessses throughout its different functions equally the means to correct it self against Pathogenic agents that it may meet in its environment .This is what is called the immune system.

We recommend a regular physical activity.

The rule number one regarding the whole is its mobility, its system of locomotion has been conceived like that in order to be able to move about to feed, procreate, and adapt to its environment. It must conserve a high level of mobility, it is true for the articulations of the skeleton but also essential for the different levels of all the tissues in the body. When the loss of mobility or elasticity instores itself there is obviously a reduction of the local circulation of body fluids, which brings with it inevitably a reduction of vitality in the area which is more fragile .

During the lifetime of every individual, the microtraumatisms who cause losses of Articulary mobility or tissue elasticity problems are numerous, they can be called breaks, obstacles which accumulate in the organism to which physical and psychological accidents can be added. Often micro-traumatisms generate permanent excitement over the nervous ways which provoke, through the spinal cord, distant perturbations on other bodily functions.

(neurophysiologial theory of the facilitated spinal segment by Professor Irvin Korr; Ref Internet site; page perso.aol.fr/aguierre/PRINCIPE.HTM TN) The body is a collection of functions which exchange information permanently, if this Information is nociceptive it is harmful to the rest since this prgressively reduces the body’s own regulatory capacities.

Daily activity, stress, tiredness, overwork, racing from work to the home and family responsabilities, too quickly eaten meals ,time spent commuting to work in buses, trains or one’s own car with environmental or nutritional pollution, be it visible or invisible, and on the contrary lazinessand excessive sitting about (idleness kills man), all of this nibbles away every day at our health capital, accelerates the ageing process of our cells, reduces the mobility of our joints, accumulates the muscular tension which reduces the vascularisation of numerous functions, weakens the immune system, the dynamics and vitality of the metabolism, increases global acidity of the organs and accelerates the ageing process.

All these events constitute an accumulation of physical and psychological micro-traumatisms which placed end to end provide an open door to any illness allowing it to embed itself and to fix in the organism.

These systems of maintenance, defense, and self-regulation have their limits, the body on its own cannot correct everything. It must be regularly visited and inspected with a method of soft, gentle, preventive health as well as highly modern techniques : the “osteopathy”.

“The artery rule is supreme”

The osteopathy raises obstacles, allowing the liberation and evacuation of perverse energies as Chinese Medecine names them.

It frees the breaks on the easy flow of the circulatory system of the body liquids: blood in the vessels (arteries, veins, capilliaries), the lymph in the canals, ganglions, cisterns, cephalorachidian liquid in the brain’s cisterns, in the spinal cord, in the sheath of the peripheral nerves.

These obstacles take on different multiple shapes: contractions and muscular spasms oedemas, inflammations, adhesive aponevrotics, imbalance of the neurovegetative system ortho and parasympathetic which regulates the metabolism, imbalance of the biological rhythms as alternating and the quality of the body’s dormant and woken state .

These phenomena can be analysed and released by the HEALTH DESTINATION.

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