Health promotion from an osteopathic perspective

'To find health should be the object of the practitioner; anyone can find disease.' A.T. Still founder of osteopathy (Stone 2002). Osteopathy is understood as a science art and philosophy (Gibbons 2004) that is applied to people of all ages for health promotion prevention and rehabilitation. Osteopathy is considered an alternative healing method and is now taught as a patient-centred approach (WHO 2014). Osteopathy can achieve its greatest effect in strengthening health particularly in prevention which aims to eliminate risk factors (Steinbach 2007).