The ability to detect minute modifications in the quality of tissue is the assessment skill that allows the osteopathic manual practitioner to help prioritize a patient’s course of treatment. These tissue “qualities” include congestion, dehydration, scarring, stiffness, density or loss of resilience, as well as motility that is an infinitesimal […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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Like a gyroscope of intelligence, our systems construct patterns we can follow to bring about health in real time healing. The cells of the body heal and reconfigure into healthy tissue and come into alignment when the rhythms and patterns are engaged, encouraged, and followed. Staying present to these living […]
The profession of Osteopathy was founded in 1874 single-handedly by an American doctor, with a mechanical background, named Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917). Still was the third son of a pioneer doctor, under whom he apprenticed at the culmination of the Jacksonian era (1829-1837). It was a time that encouraged independent […]