All three professions treat musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. The professions differ in their diagnostic and philosophical approach to correcting painful conditions.

 

Chiropractic is described as the art, science, and philosophy that emphasizes the relationship between the vertebrae of the spine and the nervous system in disease. That by manipulating vertebrae alone can nervous energy can be restored.

 

Where Chiropractic considers bony impingement as the cause of disease, Physiotherapy considers muscle imbalance as the cause and is described as the treatment of a disease or an injury of the muscles or joints with massage, exercise, heat and electrotherapy.

 

Osteopathy differs in that it takes a more holistic integrated approach looking at the musculoskeletal system as whole, that muscles and bones work together at the joints integrated by the nervous system and that the musculoskeletal system as a whole needs to be in balance so that the nervous system can function correctly.

 

When the musculoskeletal system is out of balance muscle and joint dysfunction will result causing inflammation and pain and adversely affect spinal nerves passing out of the spine between each vertebrae to innervate the rest of your body. 

 

The Osteopathic approach considers that the muscles and bones through the nervous system work together, that it is not a system of bones independent of muscles and that it is not a system of muscles independent of bones.

 

By working on all three aspects at the same time, the muscles, joints and thereby the nervous system can maximum results be achieved and balance restored in order that self-regulating and self-healing mechanisms can operate optimally so that your body can continue to heal.

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