The Osteopath’s Imprint: Osteopathic Medicine Under the Nanoscopic Lens

Abstract

Scientific literature demonstrates how osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT) are able to improve various somatic functional parameters, change somato-visceral and viscero-somatic reflexes toward a more physiological mechano-metabolic environment and, consequently, bring benefits to patients. These benefits can be long-lasting or short-lived. Multiple reasons can be found to explain the positive responses to OMT, ranging from neurological, vascular, lymphatic, and endocrine explanations. Not only the techniques, but the touch of the clinician prove to be important factors for a favorable adaptation by the patient. Another science capable of explaining the change in cellular status and from which reflections that pave the way for observing the human body in a different light can be extrapolated is quantum physics. The latter is rarely taken into consideration to obtain possible explanations of the physical events that occur between the clinician and the patient. The article tries to put the effects of OMT under the light of a new lens: the nanoscopic.

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“…Each solid structure of the cell produces electromagnetic oscillations, which move (waves) towards other nearby and distant cells. This mechanism determines the alteration of the electromagnetic status of the cells involved, with the deformation of solid structures and movement of fluids (mechanotransduction) [ 2 ]. We can strongly hypothesize that this mechanism is one of the reasons behind the osteopathic therapeutic response.…”

“…Bringing this concept back to the clinic, the mutual reciprocity between external information and the inside of the cell strongly allows us to hypothesize that the osteopath's hand can affect the touch towards the cellular DNA. Following the concept of quantum physics, entanglement, when contact is created between one cell and another, the bond is forever [ 2 ]. This adaptation allows instant communication between cells, independent of the neural network [ 2 ].…”

“…Following the concept of quantum physics, entanglement, when contact is created between one cell and another, the bond is forever [ 2 ]. This adaptation allows instant communication between cells, independent of the neural network [ 2 ].…”