I think that this is my mistake. I assumed that osteopathic and chiropractic were the same thing, so when I said that chiropractic treatment was common in Japan, I was actually referring to osteopathic treatment without understanding that they are two separate things.
In retrospect, I believe that the doctor whom I saw in my teens for scoliosis was also an osteopath. I specifically remember him taking X-rays when I twisted an ankle real bad one time, and that is not the kind of thing that a chiropractor would do, is it?
I never even thought that I might be conflating the two. I just thought that they were two different words for the same thing.
