easy said:
Ive got a friend who took four years at university to get an Osteopathy degree. Proper, state run, University. She cut up cadavers to learn anatomy inside out. I had Osteo Pubis and was moving like C3P0 for months. She fixed me in no time.
shes definately no quack and has no snake oil for sale.
I seriously think youve got Osteopathy wrong fellas.
maybe it should drop the -pathy and call Osteology or something?
[quote author=Wikipedia]
Osteopathy is a type of
alternative medicine that emphasizes massage and other physical manipulation of muscle tissue and bones.[1] Its name derives from Ancient Greek "bone" (ὀστέον) and "sensitive to" or "responding to" (-πάθεια).[2][3][4]
In the United States, osteopathic physicians are trained and are certified to practice medicine. They represent a branch of medicine called Osteopathic Medicine. Osteopaths trained elsewhere are trained only in manual osteopathic treatment, generally to relieve muscular and skeletal conditions, and are referred to as osteopathic practitioners.[5][6][7] They are not allowed to call themselves Osteopaths in the United States to avoid confusion with certified physicians. In the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand osteopaths are registered and regulated by law as therapists but may not practice medicine (although Germany, like Canada, allows US-trained osteopathic physicians to practice).
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Maybe it is an "ethos" thing? She may be trained basically as a physiotherapist but has a penchant for reiki and essential oils so prefers the link to "alternative medicine". I used to fix the photocopiers at "The Endeavour College of Natural Health" in Melbourne, (where you can study reiki right along side chiropractic) they had all the same books on anatomy that the universities use.
To be clear I'm not questioning your friend's ability.