Everything in the body moves, even liquids, this being essential for health.

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Faced with a restriction of movement, a phenomenon called compensation occurs: this means that another neighboring structure moves more to compensate the first. (Reactional hypermobility).

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The interesting thing about this concept is that the pain appears in the structure that compensates: the one that is hypermobile.

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This explanation allows us to understand why on many occasions it is not in the area of the symptom where the problem or dysfunction is found.

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An analogy that clearly exemplifies the above could be "the operation of a factory": If a worker works less (he is "hypomobile"), the others must work more and move more to compensate for the lack of movement of the first (reactional hypermobility).

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In this case, the worker who presents symptoms and pain is the hypermobile, and the way to alleviate it is by restoring mobility to his colleagues.

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The goal of osteopathy is to release the movement restrictions of all the structures of the body; not only at the joint level, as might be assumed, but also at the level of the organs, nerves, arteries, bones, etc.