Osteopathy

Osteopathy was devised in 1874 by Andrew Taylorpain, improve mobility, and restore all-round health.
Still. He trained as an engineer before receiving formalOsteopaths believe that we function as a complete
medical training at Kansas City School of Physiciansworking system - our body structure, organs,
and Surgeons, after which he worked as an armysystems, mind, and emotions are all interrelated and
surgeon. He was unhappy with the often brutalmutually interdependent. Because of this, problems
medicine of his day, and he felt that stimulating thethat affect one part of the structural body upset the
body's natural powers of self-healing would bebalance of the body generally, and also the emotions.
preferable. He was interested in the body as aSimilarly, internal problems can reveal themselves in
machine and became aware that many illnesses werethe 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 therapyreferred 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 relievefigure is in excess of 100 million.