PRELUDE for the Patient
“‘The best doctor is the one who can help Nature cure itself.”
Andrew Taylor Still
Osteopathic thought has always placed the efficiency of the living body at the center of its philosophical framework. We are changing the focus from traditional allopathic medicine with its disease theory and emphasis on external control to an osteopathic orientation: The BODY is the first priority.
Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, founder of Osteopathy, asked a relatively simple question:
How does a physician stimulate this natural capacity of the body?
“… THE PATIENT
WHO HAS THE DISEASE
and not the disease
which has the patient.”
Beryl Arbuckle, 1977, page 28
The answer to Dr. Still’s question gave birth to osteopathic medicine: The structural alignment of the human system can stimulate normal blood flow and thereby energize the natural healing abilities of the body.
This inherent, self-regulatory potential of the body is ultimately expressed in the craniosacral concept. Cranial osteopathy is the study of anatomy and physiology of the cranium, the central nervous system, and the cerebrospinal fluid, and their inter-relationship with the body as a whole.
The overall efficiency of this system has been found to assume a primary role in the treatment of disease
as well as in the maintenance of health. An innovative and unique view of human functioning has evolved from the osteopathic philosophical foundation that acknowledges the primary importance of the living body.
The first step in Osteopathy
is a belief
in our own body.
Andrew Taylor Still,
founder of Osteopathy
Prepare to enter a different paradigm of medicine.
Become acquainted with a physiological system intimately involved in the body’s self-regulatory process.
