The first chiropractor was likely a student of the first osteopath. We branched out, and went our own ways, but over the decades have cross-pollinated and there’s almost no osteopath technique that many chiros don’t also do, and also almost no chiro technique that some osteopaths don’t do. By law, unless licensed as both, no chiro can say he does osteopathic technique, and vice versa. Not all osteopaths do manipulation, some never learned it, some never practiced it. Some learned it, but never used it during their clinical rotations. Some have had it only as a brief elective. Depends when they went to school and where. Some osteopaths despise chiros, some work with us. I worked alongside one in the past, he rarely did manipulation, was largely an internist. We got along fine, he tried to hire me away from another job a few years after I left that practice. There’s one who works in the practice group I’m in, I can ask if he despises us all. A friend’s who’s a chiro married one, so at some point at least could get along well.
I agree in general with how you describe the interconnections of the body.
