Osteopathy is one of those “difficult” ones, where it does have some real evidence to back
it up - but in the UK certain practitioners make exceptional and (hokum) claims.
The NHS recommends it for Lower Back Pain
(
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Osteopathy/Pages/Introduction.aspx, and personally I’ve
found it the only effective treatment for my back pain) and also say may be effective for
other forms of muskculoskeletal problems.
But you get plenty of osteopaths claiming that they can fix anything from IBS to heart
problems (total BS).
Talking about it to my osteopath, those latter claims became popular in the 90s during the
“hokum-medicine” (his words :P) boom, but fortunately today it seems to be falling further
out of favour, with a twist to more realistic attitudes.
The US has a much more robust approach to such claims, and hopefully the UK will go that
way too :D
Anyway, just an interesting aside :) As a note, the WP article on osteopathy does a good
job of overviewing the topic!
Tom
On 27 May 2014 at 15:23:59, Nathan (nawrich(a)gmail.com) wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Marc A. Pelletier
<marc(a)uberbox.org>
wrote:
On 05/27/2014 09:44 AM, Stevie Benton wrote:
American Osteopathic Association
I'm not an expert on the latest woo-woo, but isn't Osteopathy one of the
numerous "faith-based 'medecine'"?
-- Marc
That issue was discussed before too. From what I remember from it is that
what is called Osteopathy in the UK isn't the same thing that's called
Osteopathy in the US, where the UK one is basically voodoo, and the US one
a legitimate specialty in medicine (but correct me if I'm wrong)
-- Martijn
__________________
You are correct. In the UK osteopathy is a woo woo homeopathic discipline,
in the U.S. (where the study was conducted) the training and degree
granting processes for osteopathy are equivalent to medical doctors and the
two are treated identically.
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