OSTEOPATHIC MANUAL MEDICINE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION Osteopathic Manual Medicine, “OMM” focuses on helping patients attain health, which though it may be compromised, is always available in all living patients. Osteopathic treatment utilizes the body’s own internal resources to treat and resolve underlying medical issues so people can be as healthy as possible. This is very different from conventional medicine that is all too focused on managing symptoms utilizing drugs, and su

Osteopathy helps the patient find their inherent health. The way Osteopaths approach this is to help the patient's own body manifest their original map of Health, the map the patient first followed in their unfolding, as an embryo, before the end of the first nine weeks of life. When a patient has lost their ability to naturally manifest their own Health through the Organization laid down in embryology, conventional, and frequently successful medical treatments fail because

THE FIRST CONCEPT OF OSTEOPATHY Andrew Taylor Still, the first osteopath taught Structure and Function are interrelated. He understood this based on what he felt under his hands and from endless anatomical dissections. The anatomy guides medical practitioners, to a greater or lesser extent (as the knowledge of anatomy varies among medical specialty and individual physicians) as they try to cure disease and restore normalcy in the body. Underlying the physical anatomy (struc