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'''Osteopathy''' ({{ety|grc|{{wikt-lang|grc|ὀστέον}} ({{grc-transl|ὀστέον}})|bone||{{wikt-lang|grc|πάθος}} ({{grc-transl|πάθος}})|pain, suffering}}), unlike [[Osteopathic medicine in the United States|osteopathic medicine as defined and regulated in the United States]], is a [[pseudoscientific]] system of [[alternative medicine]] that emphasizes physical manipulation of the body's [[muscle tissue]] and [[bone]]s.<ref name=SBM>{{cite web |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/osteopathy-in-the-nicu-false-claims-and-false-dichotomies/ |title=Osteopathy in the NICU: False Claims and False Dichotomies |last=Snyder |first=John |year=2014 |access-date=28 March 2017 |quote=So other than a lower admissions standard and the focus on a pseudoscientific belief system, there is no difference between the two educational systems. So why should this two-tiered system even exist? It is time to rid ourselves of this pre-scientific, dual system of medical education.}}</ref><ref name=NYULangoneOMT>{{cite web |url=http://www.med.nyu.edu/content?ChunkIID=37409 |title=Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment |publisher=NYU Langone Medical Center |date=23 July 2012 |access-date=5 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029115032/http://www.med.nyu.edu/content?ChunkIID=37409 |archive-date=29 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In most countries, practitioners of osteopathy are not medically trained and are referred to as '''osteopaths'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Resolution301_A2010_FinalVersion.pdf |title=House of Delegates Resolution H-301 – RE: H229-A/05 Osteopath & Osteopathy – Use of the Terms |access-date=28 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320141015/http://www.osteopathic.org/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=20 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=26191 |last1=Crosby |first1=J. |title=Promoting DOs: Words and medium change, but message stays the same |work=DO Magazine |date=3 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012035325/http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=26191 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-aoa/news-and-publications/media-center/Pages/osteopathic-style-guide.aspx |title=Style Guide for Reporting on Osteopathic Medicine |publisher=American Osteopathic Association |access-date=17 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514135333/http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-aoa/news-and-publications/media-center/Pages/osteopathic-style-guide.aspx |archive-date=14 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
'''Osteopathic manipulation''' is the core set of techniques in osteopathy.<ref name=paradox/> Parts of osteopathy, such as [[craniosacral therapy]], have been described by ''[[Quackwatch]]'' as having no therapeutic value and have been labeled by them as [[pseudoscience]] and [[quackery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/QA/osteo.html |title=Dubious Aspects of Osteopathy| website=quackwatch.org |access-date=29 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cranial.html |title=Why Cranial Therapy Is Silly |website=quackwatch.com |date=15 May 2004 |access-date=29 October 2016}}</ref> The techniques are based on an ideology created by [[Andrew Taylor Still]] (1828–1917) which posits the existence of a "[[myofascia]]l continuity"—a tissue layer that "links every part of the body with every other part". Osteopaths attempt to diagnose and treat what was originally called "the osteopathic lesion", but which is now named "somatic dysfunction",<ref name=paradox/> by manipulating a person's bones and muscles. Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) techniques are most commonly used to treat [[back pain]] and other musculoskeletal issues.<ref name=paradox>{{cite journal |doi=10.1056/NEJM199911043411910 |title=The Paradox of Osteopathy |year=1999 |last1=Howell |first1=Joel D. |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |volume=341 |issue=19 |pages=1465–8 |pmid=10547412}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=October 2016}}<ref name=back-pain>{{cite book |vauthors=Vincent C, Furnham A |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_UnQNQPJ60C&pg=PA15 |year=1997 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=978-0-471-96645-6 |page=15 |title=Manipulative Therapies: Osteopathy and Chiropractic}}</ref>
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