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"Osteopathy" is a Greek word coined June 22, 1874 by Andrew Taylor Still and is made up of two radicals (Greek):
"osteon", meaning bone and "pathos", meaning (usually) pain. However, Still uses pathos in another perspective:
that of the origin of suffering.
Therefore, the term "osteopathy" should be understood as: the origin of suffering which is associated with bone.
In a broader sense, we go back to one of the basic principles of osteopathy: the structure governs the function.
Therefore, any structure of the human body can cause a disorder (suffering) shortly or even ultimately.
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Around 2,400 years ago, the famous Greek physician and philosopher of antiquity Hippocrates already advanced the
same theory as that of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still. Hippocrates believed that even if the disease could come from
outside or inside the man, "our nature was the physician of our diseases." He believed that attention should be
focused on the patient rather than on the disease. His philosophy was based on the study of human health as
individuals and as an integrated unit.
In the 19th century in America, Still was inspired by Hippocrates and pursued his research in this direction in
developing a theory and its application: osteopathy. This new manual medicine would now change the way we cure.
Osteopathy is based on the principle that the body has the ability to produce its own remedies against disease
and other toxic conditions when the body is under normal structural state in favourable environmental conditions
and is fed healthily.
Osteopathy emphasizes the importance of the mechanics of the body and resorts to manipulative methods to detect
and correct physiological problems: structural, visceral and cranial.
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The Role of an Osteopath
We're much more than the sum of the parts of our body. Therefore, the osteopath treats the human person as a
whole instead of stopping the symptoms. It treats the whole.
Osteopathy has changed the lives of millions of people. These include John D. Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger,
and former Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, to name a few.
There is an increasing demand for qualified osteopaths, reflecting a growing desire to solve health problems in
a more natural fashion.
Despite an era of spectacular medical advances and new ever more effective medication, osteopathy brings you
what alternative medicine has best to offer. Osteopaths can specialize in each of the recognized areas, from
cranial to visceral osteopathy, without overlooking structural osteopathy.
The osteopath resorts to manual diagnostic methods and osteopathic manipulative treatments.
Osteopaths bring a new dimension to health care as a non-invasive therapy to treat and prevent illness and
injury.
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