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A kidney can’t work as a heart, a lung can’t function as a muscle. They have different structures. However, if you load a muscle, it changes, it becomes larger, the bone, tendons and ligaments between the bones thicken. The same applies to the lung if it works with an increased load up to the proliferation of cells, which means lung cancer. If, as a result of stress, a tension arose in the system and blood vessels and nerves become pinched, function will be impaired. Disorder of function will lead to the destruction of a structure.

Encountering some symptom, we must ask ourselves: what happens with the blood supply in the problem area?

Here it is worth to talk about why Dr. Still called this science osteopathy. Although he speaks clearly about it in his books, I didn’t immediately realize why. Anyone who has seen a schema of a human skeleton, vascular and nervous system, can mentally combine them. And now anyone, even without medical education, can answer a question if there is any part of the body that isn’t connected with the skeletal system. During lectures the answer is usually given in 10—15 seconds – of course not! Tension in any part of the body, in any organ, vessel or nerve trunk will lead to limited mobility. Bone is the hardest tissue, it’s easy to feel and analyze its mobility. After carrying out the technique it’s easy to double-check changes in bone mobility, be it a rib, vertebra, femur, 8 wrist bones or a temporal bone. For 7 years I pondered a question «Why Dr. Still used a bone in the name of his science?» You answered this question in 15 seconds. Here I see the only benefit of a specialist: saving of time. A high-level specialist can explain the most complex problem in a simple phrase and help you to ask a right question so you can answer it yourself. Then no one will confuse you with fanciful fantasies.

Now that we are armed with the principles of health, our own experience and thoughts, let’s think about the principles of treatment.