Is manual osteopathy treatment ongoing?
The hands-on nature of the manual osteopathy treatment is essentially what requires patients to visit the manual osteopath a number of times. To be treated, a patient needs to visit a manual osteopath’s clinic. In contrast, a course of treatment from medical doctors often involves a pre-established plan that is conducted at home (i.e. taking a course of antibiotics once a day for a couple of weeks). A manual osteopath may provide acute, chronic, and/or preventive care thus making a certain number of visits sometimes necessary. Your manual osteopaths should tell you the extent of treatment recommended and how long you can expect it to last.
