OSTEOPATHY: A PROMOSING PROFESSION
Osteopathy is an independent profession perfectly integrated in the health system and offering multiple career possibilities both in liberal and in athletic or humanitarian structures.
Today, a large number of national and international sporting federations give their athletes the possibility to access osteopathic services. Likewise, an increasing amount of maternities call upon osteopathic services for babies and young mothers.
Osteopathy: Another vision of health
Over the past few years, osteopathy has grown impressively, counting 300 000 new patients turning towards our profession each year, and 20 million people in total having already been treated by an osteopath.
What IS osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a manual therapeutic method who’s objective is to determine and treat the mobility restrictions affecting the tissular body (muscles, ligaments, aponevrosis, ...) upholding and composing the human body, and which can lead to an unbalance of the State of Health. Based on science’s most recent knowledge, the Osteopathic Treatment is adapted to each patient while respecting the individual’s psychological and physical integrity.
A Natural Complement to Medicine
Osteopathy, with its complementary specificities to other medical branches, enables a patient to take charge of his health capital so as to lean towards a more autonomous and responsible lifestyle. Both a health science discipline and a therapeutic form of art, osteopathy answers to patients’ expectations and to a real need.
A profession recognized on a European level and in France since the Law of March 4th 2002
Osteopathy is recognized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as participating to maintaining the population’s health.
The profession is regulated in England since 1993, in Belgium since 1999, and in Switzerland since 2005.
In 1997, the European Parliament voted in favour of a resolution for the status of non conventional medicine; osteopathy figured on the list of recognized alternative therapies. In France, the National Assembly and Senate recognized osteopathy by voting the Law of March 4th 2002 concerning the rights of the sick and the health system’s quality.
The Health and Solidarity Ministry regulates the profession by:
Decree and orders n° 2007-435 (March 25th 2007) concerning osteopathic acts and practice conditions
Decree and orders n° 2007-437 (March 25th 2007) concerning the training of osteopaths and the recognition of osteopathic establishments
