This episode explores the unconventional, journey of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still toward discovering Osteopathic Manual Medicine (OMM). The episode draws on an essay written by Jason Haxton, who is the director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, Missouri. It details how Dr. Still's philosophy did not emerge overnight, but from a series of personal encounters and frontier medical cases where structural correction unlocked natural healing.

Listeners will hear how Dr. Still first found relief from his own childhood migraines by resting his neck across a plow-line rope, and later eased boyhood dysentery by throwing himself over a log. As a frontier doctor, his anatomical insights grew through remarkable trials: using iron picket pins and traction to reset a Mexican freighter's dislocated neck in Kansas, and adjustin ...