Definition of Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a method of manual treatment which aims to identify and deal with mobility restrictions could affect all the structures that make up the human body.
Indeed any loss of mobility of joints, muscles, ligaments or viscera can cause an imbalance in health status.
Based on the latest scientific knowledge, treatment osteopathic adapts to each patient in keeping with his physical and mental integrity.
With its specific complementary to other medical branches, osteopathy allows the patient to take its capital health care in a perspective of autonomy and accountability. In both human science and art therapy, osteopathy meets the expectations of patients and a real need of the population.
History of the Osteopathy
Osteopathy was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, born in 1828 in Virginia.
From an early age, he helped his father in his medical practice and work on the farm.
He grew up among the pioneers of the American west, in contact with the wilderness. Andrew became "doctor" with experience, following his father, at a time when the remedies were as destructive as saving. It also practice surgery in dissecant of dead Indians.
During the war of secession, he served as a major in the Union Army and learned to medicine and surgery.
1864, Andrew Taylor Still assists the impotent, despite medicine at the time, the death of three of her children in a terrible epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis. He is therefore convinced that medicine is wrong, we must look for signs of disease before they occur. It therefore moving towards a listening different from his patients.
His research led him to articulate the fundamental axiom of osteopathy: "The structure governing the function". A.T. Still was one of the first to understand the relationship between the functional balance of all structures of the body and the concept of health.
In 1874, Andrew Taylor STILL broke with the traditional medicine of his time and gave birth to osteopathy. It structuring a new approach to maintaining health status, which considers man in his environment, its lifestyle and its internal balance.
1892, he founded the first health centre and teaching of osteopathy "the American School of Osteopathy" in Kirksville, Missouri.
He died in 1917.
In 1913 in France, Doctors Mouttin Mann and later those of Dr. Lavezzari try to find osteopathy.
In 1918 John Martin Littlejohn, a former student of A.T. Still creates the British School of Osteopathy in London (GB).
In 1950, Mr Paul Geny founded the French School of Osteopathy and osteopathy experiencing its first expansion in Europe. Following various pressures, P. Geny was forced to emigrate to Britain. He created with J. Wernham (student of Littlejohn) the European School of Osteopathy.
Between 1950 and 1960 appear the national syndicat of french Osteopaths geny with Paul and Louis Tourneville, Ostéopathique Association Internationale (AOI) who come from teachers such as Thomas and Denis DUMMER BROOKES and gentlemen Harold MAGOUN, Thomas and Ms. Viola SCHOOLEY FRYMAN.
Today, Osteopathy has continued to evolve itself as a true complement to traditional medicine.
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