HOW AND WHEN TO INCLUDE CHIROMASSAGE WITHIN
AN OSTEOPATHY SESSION?
The majority
of students, who are enrolled in an Osteopathy course, come from doing the
course of Chiromassage and / or Sports Psychotherapy. If they have been
practicing or working for some time, they will be accustomed to developing
their activity based mainly on massage to treat their patients. It is the tool
they dominate and through which they feel safe.
When they
begin the course of Osteopathy many have in mind that they will learn a series
of osteopathic techniques that can include in their work as Quiromasajistas the
same as those who learn new techniques of inhibition, stretching, etc. But this
will not change your way of working...
Well, they
are wrong. When they begin the course of osteopathy, they see the number of
diagnostic tests, work protocols, soft tissue treatment techniques and
correction and adjustment techniques that exist. Then they observe that
Chiromassage does not appear anywhere.... This creates certain confusion
because mentally they begin to think that if they spend a lot of time with
Osteopathic works in the end they will not have time to give a good massage to
their patient. Also, as is logical at first, they still do not feel safe
working only with osteopathy.
That's when
they start to ask: But then when can I work the massage?
Before or
after doing Osteopathy?
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Osteopathy
is a manual therapy that does not necessarily need to include chiromassage as
part of the treatment. Although they are totally complementary therapies. In
Osteopathy soft tissues are worked before manipulating the joints and it is
within this soft tissue work where chiromassage can be included as part of the
pre-manipulation work.
When I
studied Osteopathy, I had been working as a Quiromasajista for a long time. At
first, as well as the current students, I did not know how to fit osteopathy
into my work.
The key is
to do the opposite: Fit the Chiromassage into Osteopathic work. At the
beginning it is logical that someone who is accustomed to work with
chiromassage do not want to abandon his most useful tool at once and dedicate
himself to perform exclusively a work of osteopathic techniques that still does
not dominate and that cause him some insecurity.
A simple and
easy way to combine the two ways of working would be to start the osteopathic
diagnosis protocol, which in practice does not require a lot of time and then
start with the work of soft tissue that is performed in osteopathy: stretching,
mobilizations, inhibitions , Rolfing, etc. And then include chiromassage as an
additional technique to treat soft tissue. And finally the osteopathic
manipulative techniques that would be necessary in each case would be realized.
Thus,
in a logical and simple way, the work of the Chiromassage can be united with
the Osteopathic work. In addition to this, the therapist can gradually use less
and less time in the massage and more in the work of osteopathy, as his
confidence and safety in the new techniques increases.