In osteopathy a ‘motility’ is a biological movement pattern within the body. There are both healthy and pathological motilities. A pathological motility would be a pattern of a particular mold or virus for example. A healthy motility would be the movement of the cerebral spinal fluid flowing up and down […]
Alexandra Kaufman
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My 85 year-old mother who lives on the east coast received a diagnosis of Congestive Heart Failure during this last Covid winter 2020. Hearing about the diagnosis, I felt quite powerless to help from afar. It prompted my desire to get the Covid-19 vaccine so I could travel across country […]
The ability to detect minute modifications in the quality of tissue is the assessment skill that allows the osteopathic manual practitioner to help prioritize a patient’s course of treatment. These tissue “qualities” include congestion, dehydration, scarring, stiffness, density or loss of resilience, as well as motility that is an infinitesimal […]