Toad A. Bezilla, D.O. Alternative and Complementary
Therapies. October 2000, 6(5): 283-290
Abstract
Dr. Still
believed that humans greater than the sum of their parts. Understanding this
principle often allows are between birth and adolescence. With the growing
public interest in alternatives to conventional medical treatments, it is
becoming increasingly apparent that osteopathic manipulation, and particularly
osteopathic manipulation in the cranial field, offers an enormous potential
benefit to the pediatric population. Potential role for osteopathic
manipulative treatment (OMT) of pediatric patients is substantial. There is
probably no period of the lifecycle when significant structural and physiologic
changes occur as rapidly as they do in this period.
The Osteopathy founded by Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., a
Civil War doctor and private practitioner who had grown dissatisfied with the
conventional practice of medicine after three of his own children and wife had
died of spinal meningitis. His attempts to share his discoveries about the
interrelationships between health and the mechanical functioning of the bones,
muscles, and joints were rejected by the medical establishment during the 1870s
and 1880s. He founded the American School of Osteopathy.
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