Motility in Osteopathy

Motility, relating to the vital energy of the human tissues, is a basic concept in osteopathy.
This book presents a simple and systematic definition of motility,
based on the movement of all of the body’s structures during embryogenesis.
The book describes a new model of practice based on motility and developed by Dr Alain Auberville.
Illustrated in two colours with clear and original line drawings and photographs.
The book was first published in French by Elsevier Masson.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 : Theoretical Considerations
Chapter 2 : Embryology-based Motility
Chapter 3 : Thoracic and caudal inflections
Chapter 4 : Nervous System
Chapter 5 : Psycho-Neuro-Immune-Endocrine System
Endocrine system
Immune system
Chapter 6 : Cardiopulmonary System
Embryologic generalities
Heart, serous and fibrous pericardia
Pulmonary system
Chapter 7 : Digestive System
Embryologic generalities for the digestive system
Neurologic regulation of the intestinal tract
Esophagus
Stomach
Liver
Duodenum
Gallbladder, higher and lower gall ducts, exocrine pancreas
Endocrine pancreas
Small intestine
Colon
Chapter 8 : Urogenital system
Embryologic generalities
Urology
Kidney
Bladder
Ureters
Uterus
Gonads : ovaries and testicles
Prostate
Chapter 9 : Musculoskeletal system
Embryological generalities
General vertebral column, notochord and vertebral segments
Ribs
Upper limbs
Lower limbs
Cranial bones
Chapter 10 : Clinical intervention protocol for the motility model
References
Index.

Alain Auberville practiced as a physiotherapist from 1965 to 1983 and qualified as an osteopath in 1984. He then went on to complete his professional development by studying naturopathy and Chinese medicine. He was involved in founding the osteopathy schools Eurostéo and InSO-Aix-en-Provence, where he taught the visceral approach to osteopathy. He now practices at Pélissanne, France. Dr Auberville has developed his embryology-based motility concept over the last 30 years by experimenting and clinically validating his hypothesis. He has extended the concept for all the structures and the visceral, neurologic and musculoskeletal systems of the body. He has been teaching this concept and its applications for more than 15 years to students of the schools he co-founded in France as well as to those attending courses at the Centre Ostéopathique du Québec, Canada. He teaches postgraduate courses, notably in France, Italy and Russia.