Andrew Taylor Still said “Disease is a result of a violation of a natural law”. He was a founder of Osteopathy. Andrew started as a medical doctor during an American Civil war. When he came back home at 1864 his wife and three of his children died from spinal meningitis and his brother was addicted to morphine. During most of the 19th century having a surgery was like playing Russian roulette. Doctors did not even wash their hands and amount of people dying after the surgery from different complications was pretty high. He decided to find an alternative and in 1874 he presented his method to American Medical Association. As a result, he was called a quack and eliminated from the medical association.
Andrew moved to Kansas City and continued his practice. At first, he became very busy, then he taught his 8 children from the second wife. Eventually, they had to open a school called Osteopathy and even American Medical Association backed up from their claims and made a doctor designation for Osteopath. Unlike Canada in US Osteopath can be a medical doctor.
Osteopathy is not limited to just getting rid off pain, but it is about 99% of what I am doing.
I will give you an example… About 2 years ago I received a call from a referral by the name Kyle. He said his wife is bed ridden. I told him if she is bed ridden, he better go to a hospital, but he insisted that it is up my alley. On the scheduled time he brought his wife in his arms. After a quick assessment, I conducted a hip alignment and she could leave the room. On the second appointment, I corrected a stigmatism in her eyes, which was affecting her gate and causing her some of the back pain. After appointment number 3 she went on a road trip to BC and she had zero back pain entire trip.
I believe that pain is a distress caused by dysfunctional patterns stored in the brain. That means that body is a one whole thing and we are impacting something, we will be impacting something else. If you want to get the maximum of any treatment you have to strive to improvement not just punch a clock in a random physiotherapy clinic.
Quality is always better than quantity.