Naprapathy
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Naprapathy (Czech náprava, correction - from napravit, to correct) - is a branch of alternative medicine, a manipulative therapy, that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.[citation needed]
[edit] History
Naprapathy was founded in the early 1900s by Dr Oakley Smith, an early chiropractor, who called his manual medical technique naprapathy. It is a derivative of osteopathy and chiropractic, which focuses on spine and subluxations.[citation needed] Naprapaths working with the spine emphasize the underlying ligaments.[1]
The year 1908 through circumstance and perhaps inevitable progression of new healing concepts, proved to be one of historical moment for two of the first followers of Daniel David Palmer. Oakley Smith, who graduated under "Old Chiro" in 1899, and John F. A. Howard, who was in the Class of 1906, would find themselvles in Chicago, each heading new schools. Smith, a one-time Iowa medical student who had investigated Andrew Still's osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri before going to Davenport, was to take another path. In the strict sense, it was not dissent but schism. For Smith, who would in time reject the Palmer concept of vertebral subluxation, it was to be a total departure as to the "doctrine of disease," and he was to announce his own concept, which was "the connective tissue doctrine."[citation needed]
