More about Osteopathy
In case you’re interested:
Osteopathy developed as an alternative to the medical thinking of the 1890s. The first American School was opened in 1892, in Kirksville Missouri, by AT Still based on the idea that improving bodily health would aid recovery. The school ran a hospital, with “natural hygiene” methods, even treating Typhoid, Diptheria and mental health, achieving better results, but medicine still used leeches and arsenic, and surgery was called amputation. Still was a doctor, educator and inventor, that had been a surgeon on
the Abolitionist side in the American Civil War. Having lost his wife and four children to meningitis, he developed a more natural approach.
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The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy was formed here, in 1894 by four nurses: Lucy Robinson, Rosalin Paget, Elisabeth Marley & Margaret. Physical therapy became vital for the returning injured during the first world war. Currently, physios are to be found in many medical settings, wherever patients have to recover from functional loss, through injury, disease, or surgery. They commonly work with GPs, teams and players of many sports, and in private practice.
The first Chiropractic College was opened in Iowa by DD Palmer in 1895.