Health
A HELPINGhand By Danny Williams
M
y mother introduced me to Osteopathy. I had no idea what it was. She was a part of a Homeopathy group and realised the potential of ‘alternative health’. It sounded like a kind of medicine and because I was always pulling things apart and looking for the cause, not the effect, I decided to dig deeper.
I realised I was on the right path when I discovered Osteopathy is about looking for the cause; in other words, treating people and not the condition. Asking questions such as “Why is something happening to my body?”, “How can I do something about it?” “Where is it coming from?” and “What or which came first?” 52 Peninsula Kids – Autumn 2023
In the 1800s Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy lost his wife and three children to meningitis and was so angered with the medical profession that he went in search of an alternative. Realising the innate healing capacity of the human body, Taylor Still studied the structure of the human body in detail, and in 1874 created a new science which he named Osteopathy. This newly created practice began by treating all sorts of illnesses and diseases and not just musculoskeletal pain. Fast forward to 2023 and, of course, mainstream allopathic medicine has advanced since that time to a greater understanding of the body treatment with the ‘panacea’. I was brought up where taking