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The Podcast
Is A.T. Still More Relevant to Osteopathy Than Ever?
More than a century after the death of A.T. Still, does the founder of osteopathy still have anything meaningful to teach the modern osteopath?
In this episode of The LXO Podcast, Jamie Archer explores the relevance of A.T. Still and the early osteopathic profession to modern osteopathic practice.
This isn't an argument for returning to 19th-century osteopathy or accepting historical osteopathic theories as scientific fact. Instead, Jamie asks whether osteopathy can embrace modern anatomy, physiology, neuroscience, pain science and evidence-informed practice without gradually losing the principles, clinical reasoning, palpation and manipulative skill that make it distinctly osteopathic.
From A.T. Still and J.M. Littlejohn to the challenges facing osteopathic education today, this episode explores professional identity, osteopathic principles, applied anatomy, palpation, osteopathic manipulation and the continued development of osteopathy.
Can we challenge the explanations of the early osteopaths while continuing to explore the questions they were asking?
And rather than asking whether osteopathy should return to its past, should we be asking whether there is something valuable in its past that we haven't finished developing?
For osteopaths interested in osteopathic philosophy, clinical reasoning, OMT, osteopathic technique, anatomy and the future of the profession, this is a conversation worth having.
The LXO. Developing Extraordinary Osteopaths.
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