Essentially, Osteopathy recognizes the profound influence of trauma on the normal functioning of a living organism.
Trauma disorganizes life processes.
The trauma can be physical or emotional. The trauma may result from a profound disease process, such as the laying down of scar tissue in the lungs following a severe pneumonia. Trauma may be an obvious single large event, such as a car accident, or it may be as subtle as repetitive action, gravity, and time. We do not simply one day have a disease. Life affects us.