They, in fact, receive more general training as WMO. For more natural, more holistic care, osteopathic physicians receive more specific training. Osteopathy. It is a holistic discipline developed by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in the late nineteenth century, proposing a comprehensive approach to the individual, who understood as an anatomical-functional unit.
It is based on the theory that considers the body a vital organism, where there is a close relationship between structure and function, maintaining both a permanent and reciprocal influence must be coordinated for the preservation of health.
The disease is the alteration of one of them, modifying their relationship, which causes the loss of body balance.
Osteopathy makes a (not exclusively symptomatic) integrated therapeutic approach. It requires a thorough evaluation which enables to determine all the possible causes that may be causing the symptoms, allowing the specificity of therapeutic planning. The treatment is developed through manual therapies, targeting the normalization of different body structures, restoring the biomechanical integrity for the recovery of GLOBAL functional