History of OPP (D.Kanze) Flashcards
definition of osteopathy?
osteo - bone
pathy - disease
“dis-ease” - not feeling at ease, you diseased!
what is osteopathy’s birthday?
unfurling of banner
June 22, 1874
history of AT Stills
- mom had been through a lot (parents killed by indians)
- father was a physician and minister
- he was anti-slavery
AT born on August 6, 1828
AT Stills birthday?
8/6/1828
explain AT Stills early education
first educated in a 1 room log schoolhouse
-abusive schoolmaster
AT Stills became a free thinker (hated school)
- interested in anatomy when went hunting - observed cause-effect relationships in nature - ex/buzzards beak and stinky skunks
“Thus nature has provided amply for all things with which to move, defend themselves, and live”
AT Stills first treatment?
when 10 years old
- used plow line and blanket to cradle his head - cured his headache
later led him to believe that the “artery is the river of life”
AT Stills medical education?
performed medicine with his father
- treated Shawnees - apprentice to his father
later attended medical school
studied his father’s methods:
-blood letting (depletion therapy)
AT Stills family?
wife died
three children died
-with all of the treatments he learned
-said there must be a better way
Hahneman
came up homeopathy
-like cures like
baunscheidtism
acupuncture where area is rubbed with stimulating fluids
where did AT Stills move after he was kicked out of the church?
1875 moved to Kirksville, Missouri
what is osteopathy?
body makes its own medicine
osteopathy is to work and facilitate the natural machinery of the body for normal and reparative function
first school of osteopathy?
American School of Osteopathy
-in Kirksville, MO in 1892
wanted to improve the present system and make it better
foundational hypothesis of osteopathy?
many of the diagnoses were actually symptoms to other underlying problems
cause can be found and does exist in the limited or excited action of the nerves which control the fluids of part or whole of the body
diseases are mere effects, the causes being a partial or complete failure of the nerves to properly conduct the fluids of life**
Four Tenets of Osteopathy?
1 body is a unit (mind, body, and spirit)
2 body possess self-regulatory mechanisms
(self-regulation, healing, and maintenence)
3 structure and function are reciprocally interrelated
4 rational treatment is based upon the above