Osteopathy as a profession started in united states in 1874 by Andrew Taylor Still.
Osteopathy has 4 basic tenets :
1. The human being is a dynamic functional unit, whose state of health is influenced by the body, mind and the living context;
2. The body possesses self-regulatory mechanisms and is naturally selfhealing;
3. Structure and function are interrelated at all levels of the human body
4. Rational treatment is based on these principles.
Osteopathic treatment can consist of many different techniques of physical manipulation.
Personally I’m interested in the working mainly with soft techniques, addressing stress, nervous system, viscera and fascia.