the INTERVIEW

Any consultation with the osteopath will start with an interview. This “taking your history” has several purposes:

to evaluate and discover which structures are causing your current complaints,
to evaluate and discover which stressful or burdensome experiences your mind and body have suffered during your lifetime,

The osteopath will always attempt to identify the underlying cause of your symptoms. These causes may be of recent origin. They may however also date back many years into the past. The natural mobility of our bodily fluids and/or structures may be affected and/or restricted by events such as injury or surgery, congestion or inflammation, psychological stress or even by environmental factors. The resultant malfunctions will be balanced by your body until its resources of natural regulation have been exhausted. Then it will react with pain or another symptom.

to evaluate and verify whether you show a pathological condition for which you need to be referred to a physician,
to evaluate and determine whether you show a contra-indication for the application of certain osteopathic techniques.

All essential data will be collected – in a “total body” context – because the osteopath's thinking is based on a holistic approach and is not restricted to any specialized medical field. The information thus obtained will provide the osteopath with an overview of what you have been through, physically and emotionally, and will in some cases be complemented by conventional medical diagnosis such as x-ray or MRI.