Stress and Osteopathy

Abstract

The problem of stress is presented as a risk factor people’s health and quality of life. We focus on the importance of recognizing symptoms that generate stress, for proper treatment in time and thus avoid future diseases. At the same time, is investigate people’s knowledge about Osteopathy as a treatment discipline to reduce the symptoms of stress, self-perception of it and its relation to the different diseases in the population. Also, we establish the percentage of people surveyed who knows Osteopathy and its action on the effects of stress. The method used for data collection was online surveys, where people indicated the most frequent symptoms in stressful situations, the diseases they suffer, how is their current state of health, age, sex, which are the most used methods to reduce stress, and if they know Osteopathy as a treatment for stress. The results indicated that a large percentage of the population faced with a stress situation experiments physical, cognitive and behavioral symptoms. Muscle tension, anxiety, difficulty on concentration and sleep disturbances were the most frequents. Also, showed that most people considered to have a good state of health, with low percentage of diseases. On the other hand, the majority do not recognize Osteopathy as a means of treating stress. We can conclude that the highest percentage of symptoms reported by respondents coincide with the data investigated in different texts of authors and scientific papers. And that the treatment of stress with Osteopathy showed good results to reduce this situation.