The "Western" world of medicine is said to be infamously known for its churning of prescriptions of pharmacologic modalities to target almost all of the conditions and pathologies that exist. When something is painful, just prop an ibuprofen. When you're having green phlegmatic coughs, you'll probably take an antibiotic. When something goes haywire with an organ, you will most likely require surgery. However, in many countries outside of the United States, this approach is not always the case. Manual manipulations of certain parts of the body and utilization of nature's products are their standards of bodily defense in times of ailment. From the word "osteon," a structural unit of bone, the field of osteopathic medicine was created in 1874 to bring forth physicians who harness the healing capabilities enveloped within the human musculoskeletal sy ...