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Shrewsbury Osteopaths
Susan and Richard Allen DO
41 Armoury Gardens
Shrewsbury
SY2 6PL Tel:01743 365746
| The Biodynamic Approach
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Biodynamic Cranial or Biodynamic
Osteopathy is a philosophy and treatment modality building on the
work and experience of Dr. Sutherland, the man who structured
Cranial Osteopathy into a system. It is the work of Dr. James
Jealous, a teacher and clinician who emphasises the importance of
the body in its environment, the body as part of the natural world. |
If Osteopathy is based in anatomy, Biodynamics is based in Embryology. Embryology (the study of the formation and growth of the body in utero) is a vitalistic / biological example of forces at work guiding formation, forces which are guiding gene expression and replication in the foetus. These forces can be compared to the chef creating the meal, without him there are only the raw ingredients. (Dr. E Bechlschmitt.
These forces that are guiding embryogenesis are the forces that become,
in the adult, the agents of healing and health, according to Dr.
Jealous. The rhythms Osteopaths are feeling for are all expressions of
this primal force, which Dr. Sutherland named Primary Respiration, the
breathing or rhythmic movement of the body which is there before we take
our first (thoracic) breath, the rhythm of life that underlies all
movement in the body.
The treatment is based on harmonising with these integral forces
and helping them express more fully, meaning a greater expression of
health.