OSTEOPATHY CAPE TOWN
Health Care in Cape Town
www.osteogoodhealth.com
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Osteopathy Cape Town is a well established and professional Osteopathic Clinic in Constantia, in the beautiful city of Cape Town. Osteopathy Cape Town is dedicated to offering the highest level of healthcare at competitive rates in South Africa. Dr Guy Ashburner offers a complete package of care from pain relief to prevention of long-term recurrence of symptoms. Furthermore, advice is provided on injury prevention and postural education through personalised exercise, ergonomic and lifestyle advice. Osteopathy Cape Town is committed to keeping you and your family in good health. It was the pioneering foresight of a frontier physician living in Missouri, Dr Andrew Taylor Still, which led to the formulation of a new way of confronting healing and medicine. Still’s initial impulse to reform what he saw as weaknesses inherent in conventional medicine led him to investigate and create an alternative to the traditional orthodoxy. This was officially heralded as the practise of Osteopathy in Influenced by the prevailing conditions of war and the scourge of common epidemics with their high mortality rates, Still worked uncompromisingly to research the causality of disease and uncover the interconnections between the body’s systems and its psychological and emotional dimensions so as to originate a new methodology of healing. Linking this with his philosophy of life and influenced by the traditions of magnetic healing and Mesmerism, Still viewed the human body as a holistic being with the capacity to self-heal. His rationale was that any anatomical deviation could lead to disease (or disease could create a misalignment) and therefore it stood to reason that it could be corrected through hands-on Osteopathic techniques. Whilst scepticism to such new ideas was a function of the historic period, Still was able to prove the efficacy of his treatment methods in the osteopathic practise he had established in Kirksville, Missouri. By this time, in 1889, Still had been using his system of manipulation to improve circulation and correct altered mechanics for nearly two decades and had drawn a following across the country. The success of this alternative model of medicine combined with the refinement of the scientific principles, led him to establish the firstschoolofOsteopathy. Opened in 1892 as the American School of Osteopathy, the first group of students included former patients, family friends and five of Still’s children. He was assisted by a visiting doctor from Scotland, William Smith, who brought with him his knowledge of anatomy in exchange for instruction on the techniques and practise of Osteopathy. By 1894, there were 18 diplomas awarded to the graduates of the school, and from thereon the study and practise of Osteopathic Medicine as a profession gained currency throughout America. It was only then that Osteopaths were allowed to serve as physicians for their country. The acceptance of Osteopathy into mainstream practise in the United Kingdomwas only really achieved in 1993 with the Osteopath’s Act, the forerunner to the registration of Osteopathic practitioners through The General Osteopathic Council. The practise of Osteopathy in South Africa has also gained wider currency since the first osteopathic regulatory Act was passed in Whilst no training is cur
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