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