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.
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Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders
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1. Osteopathy (Wikipedia)
WikipediaOsteopathy, Still 1874, era
The practice of osteopathy...began in the United States in 1874. The profession was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, a 19th-century American physician.
Osteopathy, Still 1874, region
The practice of osteopathy...began in the United States in 1874. The profession was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, a 19th-century American physician.
View the Source 2. Chiropractic (Wikipedia)
WikipediaChiropractic, Palmer 1890s, eraQuote, Chiropractic, Palmer 1890s, era
Spiritualist D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic in the 1890s, claiming that he had received it from the other world, from a doctor who had died 50 years previously.
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