Osteopathic treatment for Enuresis Nocturna in early childhood

Definition of Enuresis Nocturna: “Wetting in sleep at least two nights a month at the age of 5 without daytime symtoms or urinary tract infections”

Bed wetting in children is the most common urological symptom: 15-20% of 5-year-olds suffer from this condition and it is very often observed in children over the age of 5 years.

The urinary system has many roles such as cleansing the blood and ridding the body of metabolic waste products, regulation of PH, regulation of blood pressure and more. The final filtration of the blood by kidneys called urine. The kidneys filter about 200 litres of filtrate every day but the urine, the final waste content is about 2 litres per day. The capacity of the bladder can be from 1 – up to 2 litres. The minimum amount of 150-500ml is needed to trigger the micturition reflex or Bladder Stretch Reflex. The stretch receptors in the bladder wall transmit nerve impulse to the sacral region of the spinal cord to generate a spinal reflex. The parasympathetic neural outflow causes contraction of the detrusor muscle and relaxation of the involuntary internal urethral sphincter. At the same time, the spinal cord inhibits somatic motor neurons, resulting in the relaxation of the skeletal muscle of the external urethral shincter. The micturition reflex is active in infants and disappears with maturity. Children learn to override the reflex by controlling the external shincter by will. This reflex may be preserved after spinal cord injuries that results in paraplegia or quadriplegia. Voluntary micurition requires an intact spinal cord and functional pudendal nerve, arising from the sacral plexus which is the main nerve of the perineum. This nerve can be damaged, most commonly by childbirth or injuries.

The urine passes through the ureter and is propelled by waves of peristalsis into the bladder. The quality and quantity of the urine depends on how much water is intake, exercise, outside temperature, sweating and other factors. Read More

Osteopathy treatment for colic babies, sleeping and feeding problems, crying babies

KISS Syndrom is not a disease but a dysfunction or blockage in the upper cervical spine in the atlanto-occipital junction in children and newborn. The definition of KISS in English is: Kinematic Imbalance due to Suboccipital Stress. KISS-Syndrom is also referred to : Torticollis, wry neck, stiff neck, head tilt, caput obstipum, twisted neck, crooked neck or collum distortum. A German doctor, Heinder Biedermann, who invented the term KISS in the early 1990th, was practicing in Dortmund, and is now based in Cologne is using a manual medicine on the atlanto-occipital joints. Read More

Visceral Osteopathy

Visceral Dysfunction

Visceral Osteopathic manipulation of the viscera began with Dr Still. He described treating many different digestive, respiratory and urogenital complaints . For Dr Still, almost all medical conditions had an osteopathic treatment, in some cases curative, in some cases supportive.

Dr Still palpated for organs that were” out of place”, specifically ptosis of the liver, kidneys, bladder and uterus. He mostly treated the organs by lifting them superiorly. In general, Dr. Still’s approach for visceral problems was to treat the spine, then lift the organs. Read More

Want to lose weight? New study says reducing calories not the answer

Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows that the standard prescription for weight loss is to reduce the amount of calories you consume.

But a new study, published this week in JAMA, may turn that advice on its head. It found that people who cut back on added sugar, refined grains and highly processed foods while concentrating on eating plenty of vegetables and whole foods – without worrying about counting calories or limiting portion sizes – lost significant amounts of weight over the course of a year. Read More