Osteopathy is a philosophy and treatment approach that medical reformer, Andrew Taylor (A. T.) Still, M. D., first gave to the world in 1874. Dr. Still was a physician in a time when bloodletting with leeches was considered state-of-the art medicine. After he and his wife lost their three children during an epidemic, he was given a vision of how the master creator made the human body to restore, rebalance, and heal itself.

During Dr. Still's era, medical doctors (M. D.s) practiced either Homeopathy or Allopathy. Dr. Still devised the name Osteopathy to distinguish this new approach. A political policy in the 1920's made Allopathy the prevalent way M. D.s practice in the United States.

In Osteopathy, the structure (anatomy) of the body and the function (physiology) of the body are interdependent. The Osteopathic physician works to remove any "roadblocks" to function and allow the body to show how it can heal itself. Examples of "roadblocks" are blockages in the flow of blood, fluids, nerve messages, tissue, energetic pathways, etc.

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