What differences are there between osteopathy and conventional medicine?
A conventional doctors main objective is to make a diagnosis of the patients complaint, focusing his attention on an organ or system based on his area of expertise. He looks for pathology of that system using analysis or additional tests to make a differential diagnosis and he concentrates on those parameters that are higher than normal. He then creates a treatment plan to eliminate the local problem using medication or surgery. If the problem is not pathological but functional he proceeds to reduce the symptoms with medication (Pain relief, Anti-inflammatory, etc) well known by all. The main difference with Osteopathy is that the latter does not make a local analysis based on specialties rather the analysis is always global, looking for a logical cause for the symptoms. We view symptoms as alarm signals that should not be eliminated without finding the cause responsible for them, based on the philosophy of rebalancing body structures to allow proper circulation of all fluids and activ
