“Osteopathy is a philosophy of healthcare that acknowledges that the living body is a self-renewing, self-regenerating, self-recuperating system which maintains health constantly throughout life. This is a characteristic of life, an expression of health. When life finally leaves us we start to decay within hours .
However, as one might expect, there is a limit to the body’s ability to maintain health in every circumstance come what may. Should this self-maintaining health system become overwhelmed or compromised, symptoms, disability or disease could result. This could occur from events of life such as physical trauma, postural habits, emotional, psychological trauma, ineffective, social, deitetic factors or any other factor which could have a negative impact on the body’s physiology. Osteopathy is more concerned with those factors which have compromised health, rather than the treatment of the resulting disease.”
Handoll, Nicholas, Anatomy of Potency, (2016, p.8)
