Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders

Founders and notable practitioners of osteopathy and chiropractic, the two hands-on manipulative medicine systems built around spinal and musculoskeletal adjustment as a route to health. This includes the founder of osteopathic medicine and the founder of chiropractic themselves, later practitioners who trained formally in one or both disciplines and built a clinical or public career on that credential, and a figure whose own manipulative practice drew explicitly on both chiropractic and osteopathic training even though he went on to develop a distinct offshoot technique. A practitioner whose formal credential is a medical, Ayurvedic, homeopathic or another named tradition instead is grouped there rather than here, even if they occasionally used manipulation as one tool among many.