Osteopathy is the practice of medicine and surgery that attempts to understand and recruit the body¹s own wisdom and abilities to heal itself. It does this by first searching for the patient¹ s health - the good things happening in the body. Then osteopathy uses the body¹s own ability and wisdom, plus the practitioner¹s skills, to enhance a patient¹s health.
Osteopaths, practitioners of osteopathic medicine, are fully licensed physicians and surgeons who are authorized to prescribe medications and utilize the full compliment of medicine and surgery.
While attending their own medical schools, osteopaths receive instruction in osteopathic manipulation in addition to what is traditionally taught in allopathic (MD) medical schools. Because the human body is more than 70 percent muscle, bone and nerves, aligning that system into better balance can enhance your health.
However, Osteopathy also incorporates behavioral, clinical, physical, spiritual, and biologic knowledge. As a result, many osteopaths are knowledgeable not only about the various medical and surgical fields, but many are also open to and skilled in various other health and healing modalities - nutrition, oriental medicine, acupuncture, etc. This makes osteopathy much more "holistic" than traditional medicine.
The majority of Osteopaths enter a primary care specialty such as family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency and occupational medicine. Dr. Swann¹s specialty is internal medicine consultations and cranial sacral therapy.
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