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Manual Therapy
A necessary condition of our overall well-being is that our bone-muscular system works satisfactorily. Otherwise functional disorders may occur and the unified biomechanical-static system of the body may break down.
What is Manual Therapy?
In the course of manual therapy (chiropractic, osteopathy) both the diagnosis and the treatment are performed by the hands of the doctor. Locomotor disorders are healed without medical treatment, rather putting the self-curing capabilities of the patient’s system into use.
What is the course of the treatment?
What takes place at first, is the diagnosis of the defectively operating structures - which are responsible for the functional disorders and the occasional pain - at different sections of the spine (neck, back, waist, sacrum, coccyx), at the articulations of the upper and lower limbs, and the muscles. Our aim throughout the treatment is to restore the normal functioning and nimbleness of the displaced or dysfunctioned vertebrae, as well as the mending of related muscular afflictions.
What are the consequences if the hindered movement of the articulations and the displacement of the vertebrae remain unhealed?
Complaints might not at all develop at first, or only slight feeling of discomfort may follow. However, in the long run it might lead to limitations in movement (ex. inability to lie prone or crouch), pain, or even irreversible deformations (ex. spinal disc herniation, degeneration, muscle complaints).
What complaints does it cure?
A part of the complaints is clearly of locomotor nature (ex. your neck doesn’t move, or you have an ache in your back, hip, ankle, wrist, fingers, etc.). However, complaints that do not seem to be of locomotor origin (ex. headaches, dizziness, ear-noises, jaw problems, not heart-related thoracic complaints) may be successfully healed by manual therapy as well. For example if people get out of bed in the morning, and feel sudden mordant pain in their chest, their first thought is that this could even signal cardiac infarction, although it might simply mean that there is something wrong with their dorsal vertebrae or their ribs.
Is the disorder always to be found at the same place where the pain occurs?
In many cases it is not. The body is to be perceived as one biomechanical unit, thus a dysfunctional articulation often leads to distant complaints. Ex. a long dislocated and not properly moving ankle might be the cause of a permanent headache. Furthermore, dysfunctions of the internal organs might lead to locomotor complaints (dysfunctioned vertebrae or ribs) through the network of the nervous system in a reflective way, and this is true the other way around as well. This reflex mechanism operates in the treatment as well, so the treatment of some medical diseases might be well complemented by this technique as well, similarly to acupuncture.
Who is this treatment recommended to? Everybody, who...
- has an aching neck, back, waist
- has aching limb articulations (ex. shoulder, wrist, fingers, hip, ankle, knee)
- has been diagnosed with spinal disc herniation
- would like to prevent locomotor disorders
- would like to know in time whether they have any locomotor dysfunctions that need to be treated although complaints have not occurred yet
- are eager to know whether they have a good posture
- would like to receive medical advice concerning sports, posture, articulation protection and spine protection
- would like their locomotor complaints to be treated with natural methods as well
- would like to reduce the amount of medicine taken for locomotor diseases
- have complaints, but the radiogram does not show any deformation
When is this treatment not recommended? In case of...
- severe osteoporosis
- recent accident, injury, crushing, rupture of ligaments
- recent inflammatory condition
- general connective tissue fragility
- severe disease of internal organs
Our Specialists:
- Dr. Valéria Dudics - Rheumatologist and Manual Therapist
- Mihály Gál - Chiropractor