Osteochondrosis

It begins gradually. A stiffness that is most pronounced in the mornings. A grinding sound you ignore at first. Pain that comes and goes — until it stays. Osteochondrosis means: your cartilage and bone are inflaming, changing, hardening. The tissue that was meant to provide mobility and cushioning becomes rigid and porous at the same time. Medically it is a degenerative process — wear, attrition, aging.

From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: why does exactly the tissue harden whose task it is to stay supple? Why does your body break down the very structures that enable movement? And why does it so often affect people who have long since stopped moving inwardly — not physically, but in the soul?

Osteochondrosis is not a coincidence of aging. It is the body's answer to an inner petrification.