Medicine, osteopathy and the management of pain

Abstract

The topics and authors in the remainder of this Issue reflect some present preoccupations of a Guest Editor sitting uncomfortably on the fence between osteopathy and conventional medicine-a fence which he believes could be dismantled with advantage to both disciplines. As they take on training in osteopathy, medical doctors quickly come to recognize the void in their previous practice, both conceptual and methodological, into which osteopathy so comfortably fits. They also realize that as osteopathy achieves acceptance by orthodoxy, which could lead to cooperation and real progress in developing the therapy, so it is revealed that isolation has become a habit which will not be broken until the insecurity and suspicion of organized medicine has dispersed within the ranks of non-medical osteopaths.