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Over time osteopathy developed to encompass a more complete approach to human health; beginning in 1913 osteopathic schools began including [[User:Ace McWicked|pharmacology]] in their curriculum.<ref name= ostmed>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1521738/pdf/califmed00205-0067.pdf Study of Relations Between Osteopathy and Medicine] June 1953</ref> | Over time osteopathy developed to encompass a more complete approach to human health; beginning in 1913 osteopathic schools began including [[User:Ace McWicked|pharmacology]] in their curriculum.<ref name= ostmed>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1521738/pdf/califmed00205-0067.pdf Study of Relations Between Osteopathy and Medicine] June 1953</ref> | ||
| − | In 1958, Still's mane was removed from the "constitution" of the American Osteopathic Association.<ref>[http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/BCC/08.html Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism]</ref> | + | In 1958, Still's mane was removed from the "constitution" of the American Osteopathic Association.{{explain}}<ref>[http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/BCC/08.html Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism]</ref> |
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Osteopathy (also called osteopathic medicine) is the discipline of (theoretically) treating disease by stimulating the body to heal itself, with a focus on manipulating muscles and bones.
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History
Osteopathy was created by Andrew Taylor Still, a Kansas physician, in 1874. Still believed that it was possible to treat disease solely by manipulating a patient's bones and muscles. There is no evidence that Still had any medical training, other than some time spent treating Native Americans with his missionary father.[1]
Still believed that subluxations of the vertebrae (ie. alleged subtle misalignments of the spinal column) had wide-reaching consequences on the rest of the body; in his autobiography, he claimed to have reversed balding via spinal rubbing. [1]
Over time osteopathy developed to encompass a more complete approach to human health; beginning in 1913 osteopathic schools began including pharmacology in their curriculum.[2]
In 1958, Still's mane was removed from the "constitution" of the American Osteopathic Association.[please explain][3]
Minor cult-like practices
| —Andrew Taylor Still |
Bullshit
“”...shake a child and stop scarlet fever, croup, diphtheria, and cure whooping cough in three days by a wring of its neck
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| —Andrew Taylor Still, founder of osteopathy[4] |
The principal principle of osteopathy is that most, if not all, disease comes from disorders of the musculo-skeletal system. The germ theory of disease aside, this is similar to claims made by almost all practitioners of alternative medicines: holisticism, or the belief that the entire body is somehow connected. Holistic practitioners pretend that real doctors reduce patients down to their symptoms and fail to take into account the whole of the person. This is, of course untrue, but when confronted a convenient escape hatch is that they include spirituality as a factor of the whole person.
In the United States
In the United States, osteopathic physicians receive largely the same schooling as medical doctors, in addition to a few hundred extra hours of "hands-on manual medicine."[5] While there may be a slightly greater propensity towards woo,[4] a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) is a legitimate doctor: they diagnose and prescribe, and have the legal and medical authority to so. Additionally. entrance to an osteopathic college has the same criteria as that of a medical college. [2]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Martin Gardner, Dover Publications, New York 1957 9780486203942
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Study of Relations Between Osteopathy and Medicine June 1953
- ↑ Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Quackwatch on osteopathic medicine
- ↑ On the transition from osteopathy to osteopathic medicine