Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession located in the United States. Are you familiar with this practice?
i always forget what that is about. Is it bones or sports medicine . 
The techniques involve the manipulation of bones and joints in order to diagnose and treat illnesses. 
It's specialized medicine isn't it.
the middle of the 20th century, the profession had moved closer to mainstream medicine, adopting modern public health and biomedical principles. American "osteopaths" became "osteopathic medical doctors", ultimately achieving full practice rights as medical doctors in all 50 states, including serving in the United States Armed Forces as physicians.
In modern medicine, any distinction between the MD and the DO professions has eroded steadily. Diminishing numbers of DO graduates enter primary care fields, fewer use osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), and increasing numbers of
Osteopathic medicine in the United States
Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States. Osteopathic physicians (DOs) can be licensed to practice medicine and surgery in all 50 states and are recognized to varying degrees in 65 other countries.
Frontier physician Andrew Taylor Still founded the profession as a rejection of the prevailing system of medical thought of the 19th century. Still's techniques relied on manipulation of joints and bones, to diagnose and treat illness, and he called his practices "osteopathy". By