Treatment approaches in osteopathy for the therapy of migraine
Item
- Title
- Treatment approaches in osteopathy for the therapy of migraine
- Author(s)
- Michal Ingrid
- Abstract
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The study at hand deals with osteopaths‘ way of proceeding when it comes to the treatment of migraine patients. It focuses on the question whether the treatment of migraine patients differs from the treatment of other patients, how the treatment approaches precisely look like, whether there are any special techniques for the treatment of migraine patients, which successes can be achieved and what determines the interaction between therapist and patient.
These questions shall be answered by means of a qualitative study which resorts to guideline-oriented interviews as research tool. Therefore seven experienced osteopaths with many years of practice are interviewed. An analysis of the interviews shows that migraine patients usually consult osteopaths only after having been examined by conventional medical practitioners and thus after having been diagnosed with the disease already. Furthermore it revealed that in anamnesis and during the clinical examinations of migraine patients the osteopaths proceed in no differently than when examining any other patients. Due to the holistic approach of the osteopaths, impacts on all systems (vascular, hormonal, neurochemic, myofascial, mental, structural etc.) can be found. According to the interviewees, during the treatments mainly the craniosacral model complemented by the biodynamic model is applied. Thereby the osteopaths hardly use any specific techniques, but rather a holistic approach, as it generally fits the nature of osteopathy. In case of migraine patients it is very important to pay special attention to what the patient says, as this enables the osteopath to give more specific advice to the individual patients. Furthermore it seems to be important to be particularly cautious in dealing with migraine patients. All osteopaths agree that by means of osteopathic treatments intensity, as well as frequency of migraine attacks, can be influenced positively.
Keywords: migraine, qualitative study, osteopathic treatment, craniosacral model, biodynamic model, structural model, visceral model, interaction, treatment success, treatment interval - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2009
- Date Submitted
- 1.5.2009 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 93
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 14534
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Migraine
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- Michal_Ingrid.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- Michal_Ingrid.pdf
Michal Ingrid, “Treatment approaches in osteopathy for the therapy of migraine”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 9, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/2920