Naprapathy

Naprapathy
Manipulative and body-based methods - edit
NCCAM classifications
  1. Alternative Medical Systems
  2. Mind-Body Intervention
  3. Biologically Based Therapy
  4. Biologically Based Massage Heights
  5. Manipulative Methods
  6. Energy Therapy
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Naprapathy (Czech náprava, correction - from napravit, to correct) - is a branch of alternative medicine, a manipulative therapy, that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.[citation needed]

History

Naprapathy was founded in the early 1900s by Dr Oakley Smith, an early chiropractor, who called his manual medical technique naprapathy. It is a derivative of osteopathy and chiropractic, which focuses on spine and subluxations.[citation needed] Naprapaths working with the spine emphasize the underlying ligaments.[1]

The year 1908 through circumstance and perhaps inevitable progression of new healing concepts, proved to be one of historical moment for two of the first followers of Daniel David Palmer. Oakley Smith, who graduated under "Old Chiro" in 1899, and John F. A. Howard, who was in the Class of 1906, would find themselvles in Chicago, each heading new schools. Smith, a one-time Iowa medical student who had investigated Andrew Still's osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri before going to Davenport, was to take another path. In the strict sense, it was not dissent but schism. For Smith, who would in time reject the Palmer concept of vertebral subluxation, it was to be a total departure as to the "doctrine of disease," and he was to announce his own concept, which was "the connective tissue doctrine."[citation needed]

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References

  1. ^ Beideman RP (1994). "Oakley Smith's schism of 1908: the rise and decline of naprapathy". Chiropr Hist 14 (2): 44–50. PMID 11613385. 

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  • naprapathy — aprapathy n. A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • naprapathy — noun Etymology: Czech naprava correction + English pathy Date: 1909 a system of treatment by manipulation of connective tissue and adjoining structures and by dietary measures that is held to facilitate the recuperative and regenerative processes …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • naprapathy — naprapath /nap reuh path /, n. /neuh prap euh thee/, n. a system or method of treating disease that employs no medications but uses manipulation of muscles, joints, ligaments, etc., to stimulate the natural healing process. [1915 20; < Czech… …   Universalium

  • naprapathy — noun A branch of alternative medicine, a manipulative therapy that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal conditions …   Wiktionary

  • naprapathy — na·prap·a·thy nə prap ə thē n, pl thies a system of treatment by manipulation of connective tissue and adjoining structures (as ligaments, joints, and muscles) and by dietary measures that is held to facilitate the recuperative and regenerative… …   Medical dictionary

  • naprapathy — n. treatment based on the idea that all diseases are caused by dysfunction in the muscular system and can by cured by massage therapy (Medicine) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • naprapathy — na·prap·a·thy …   English syllables

  • naprapathy — n. a system of medicine based on the belief that a great many diseases are attributable to displacement of ligaments, tendons, and other connective tissues and that cure can be brought about only by manipulation to correct these displacements …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • naprapathy — The process of massaging ligaments to cure illness …   Grandiloquent dictionary

  • naprapathy —   n. medical treatment by manipulation of spine, thorax or pelvis …   Dictionary of difficult words

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