Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies
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Focus Altern Complement Ther 2002; 7: 94
To sift fact from fiction: an overview of current practice of osteopathy and osteopathy-like modalities in the cranial field.
Literature searches, interviews with practitioners, clinical experiences.
Possibly inconclusive but worthy of debate at this stage.
In-depth study is needed to determine whether some apparent fictions are fact. Patients may show evidence of health improvement but the palpatory intervention that is used to initiate improvement is not readily measurable or identically repeatable in similar circumstances.
