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What is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a "total body" system of manual therapy.  Based on bio-mechanical principles, which use a wide range of techniques to treat muscular and skeletal problems and other functional disorders of the body.

Osteopathic manual practitioners assess and treat your body as a whole, because:

- symptoms sometimes show up in a different part of your body from where the problem actually is
- there may be several factors contributing to the symptoms you experience

Practitioners go through many years of training to develop their highly refined palpatory skills.  Osteopathic evaluation and treatment is based on this theory and as a result is unique to other forms of therapy.  Osteopaths recognize the fact that the human body is self-regulating and self-healing and will strive for health if given a chance.  The role of the Osteopath is to encourage this self-healing capacity though manual treatment-to convert the physical into the physiological.


History of Osteopathy

Osteopathy was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, MD, in thought in 1874, and in school in 1892, in the USA.  It has since spread throughout the world, taking on a strong drugless manual treatment presence outside the USA.  In its ideal form, it is both an art and a science.

The art of Osteopathy is founded on the safe and effective application of the following principles:

- A human being acts as a complete dynamic unit of function including the concept and relationship of the body, mind, and spirit
- The body possesses self-regulatory mechanisms, which are protective and self-healing in nature
- Structure and function are interrelated at all levels
- Rational treatment is based on understanding and utilizing these principles

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