| Osteopathy was devised in 1874 by Andrew Taylor | | | | pain, improve mobility, and restore all-round health. |
| Still. He trained as an engineer before receiving formal | | | | Osteopaths believe that we function as a complete |
| medical training at Kansas City School of Physicians | | | | working system - our body structure, organs, |
| and Surgeons, after which he worked as an army | | | | systems, mind, and emotions are all interrelated and |
| surgeon. He was unhappy with the often brutal | | | | mutually interdependent. Because of this, problems |
| medicine of his day, and he felt that stimulating the | | | | that affect one part of the structural body upset the |
| body's natural powers of self-healing would be | | | | balance of the body generally, and also the emotions. |
| preferable. He was interested in the body as a | | | | Similarly, internal problems can reveal themselves in |
| machine and became aware that many illnesses were | | | | the body's structure as it adapts to accommodate |
| the result of misalignment of the body's structures. | | | | pain, discomfort, or disease. In Britain over 5 million |
| Manipulation could restore the balance and cure illness, | | | | people a year visit an osteopath, many of them now |
| he believed. Osteopathy is a manipulative therapy | | | | referred by a doctor. In the United States, where |
| that works on the body's structure (the skeleton, | | | | osteopaths are also medically trained doctors, the |
| muscles, ligaments, and connective tissue) to relieve | | | | figure is in excess of 100 million. |