Unpublished MSc thesis, Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, 2007/01, 116, type of study: ,rev,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Keywords:

heart [160]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [3946]
OMT [3925]
WSO [508]
review [753]

Abstract:

The heart, this most beautiful of all structures (refer to Groddeck G.; 1990), has, as we have seen, in addition to its coating, the pericardium, and its muscles, also a core, an inner being: the fibrous skeleton of the heart. Knowing the characteristics and the significance of this heart within the heart gives everyone the opportunity to expanse their osteopathic practice. To seize what is flowing, to feel the densened connective tissue in all its movements, to relive the development of the dense areas and to establish the interaction between the heart's core and the surrounding structures - those are topics that have been discussed in this study and that could be points of departure for new studies and findings. As I have tried to show, it is possible to grasp, to feel, to seize and to touch this threedimensional continuum in which time and space have a spatial image. With our hands and in our osteopathic thinking, we can make room for the organ that gives us life: the heart. And since the heart is not just a muscle that contracts rhythmically in its sac, but since it has a structure that makes the heart the functional entity it is, we have to make this structure the basis of further osteopathic reflections. Thus, the heart should be included in the osteopathic range of action which is so rich and manifold, already.