Does manipulation put the joint back in place?
The idea of putting a joint back in place is incorrect. If spinal joints were out of place, this would be a serious injury that would require hospitalisation rather than treatment by an osteopath. Your osteopath can treat joints that have become restricted and limited in their normal function. Osteopaths do not put spinal discs back in. An osteopath can treat the symptoms of a disc injury by helping the tissues return to a more normal healthy state. Back to Top What is the difference between Osteopaths, Chiropractors and Physiotherapists? Osteopathy and Chiropractic have a similar root. In 1895 a Mr D.D Palmer was impressed by his treatment in the School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri and stayed to study Osteopathy. In 1896 he started his own school of Chiropractic because he disagreed with some of the theoretical principles about how osteopathy worked. The osteopaths believed a disturbance in motion between parts of the body disturbed the blood supply to nerves and local tissue
