Commentary on the globalization of osteopathic medicine

Abstract

Osteopathic medicine has taken a different direction internationally than it has in just the United States. A. T. Still's initial practice of osteopathy was predominantly manually based, because he believed the use of medications by the orthodox medical profession at that time was often more detrimental than helpful to patients. He did not quite envision the challenges that osteopathic medicine would face and how it would thereafter evolve in the United States.