Naprapathic medicine
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". History of Naprapathy The history of Naprapathic medicine goes back to the early 1900s in Davenport, Iowa. Naprapathy’s origin extends from Chiropractic medicine [1]. The founder of Naprapathic medicine, Dr. Oakley Smith, learned Chiropractic medicine in the early 20th century at the hands of its primary American promulgator, D.D. Palmer, and soon realized that his studies at Palmer’s School of Cure in Davenport, Iowa was inconsistent with his observations in practice. The way he observed physical ailments manifesting in his patients led him beyond the mere question of spinal misalignment (“called subluxation”) to what he believed to be the cause of misalignment in the first place. Dr. Smith’s theory placed the root of the problem in the soft tissues rather than in the bones[2] [3].
Dr. Smith and Dr. Palmer maintained very similar philosophies in that misalignment of the spinal column was the beginning of disease. The founders fall out after years of collaboration on Chiropractic medicine was the result of Dr. Palmer’s focus and application of treatment. Chiropractors focus on and treat subluxations using high velocity adjustments to treat these subluxations, in an effort to bring alignment to the spine. Naprapaths focus, instead, on the connective tissue [4]. [5]. Dr. Smith discovered that in order to bring alignment to the bony structure, the soft and connective tissue that pulls the bony structure out of alignment needs to be treated.
Connective tissues are composed of ligaments, which connect bone to bone, tendons, which connect muscle to bone, and fascia, which is the tissue that runs between each layer of muscle surrounding all organs and covering bony surfaces. Throughout the body, there is a layer of muscle, a layer of fascia, layer of muscle, and layer of fascia. For example, when the head turns, shoulder or hip moves, the muscles glide or roll over each other without friction. Dehydration, injuries, repetitive motion, sleeping positions, and posture tend to dry out the fascia, which results in a loss of lubricating abilities and turns from a viscous tissue to a glue-like substance leading to knots between the layers of muscle. When this happens, for instance in the shoulder, instead of the muscles gliding over each other, they stick and act like a fulcrum pulling the joints and vertebrae out of alignment. A Naprapath treats the connective tissue pulling the bony structure out of alignment. A Naprapath treats through the muscle into the fascia to affect and realign the ligaments that pull the bony structure out of alignment, which differs from a Chiropractic approach and focus on forcing vertebrae into alignment.
Naprapathy’s popularity continues to grow slowly. While Dr. Smith was committed to the healing benefits of Naprapathy, he was challenged with effectively communicating these benefits. This caused his Naprapathic philosophy to spread as quickly as Chiropractic. During the 1930s and 1940s, the American Medical Association, based in Chicago, Illinois, showed interest in introducing Naprapathic manual therapy into traditional medicine[6]. This interest was prior to physical therapy becoming the medical standard.
Dr. Smith was never able to collaborate with the American Medical Association (AMA) management through differences of opinions. This caused the AMA to seek opportunities to discredit Dr. Smith. At that time, while slow, Naprapathy was growing with fourteen schools around the Midwest in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana offering programs focused on Dr. Smith’s philosophy. The AMA’s campaign against Dr. Smith resulted in all but one school in Illinois closing. The National College of Naprapathic Medicine, founded by Dr. Smith, stayed open and continues to offer programs since 1906. Naprapathy is well-known and a thriving profession in Scandinavian countries. Dr. Bjorn Borg, a graduate of the National College of Naprapathic Medicine, opened a thriving school in Sweden with branches in Finland and Norway. Now, Dr. Patrick Nuzzo is focusing on doing the same throughout the United States.
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- ↑ Zarbuck, Merwyn D. C.(1986). A Profession for Bohemian Chiropractic: Oakley Smith and the Evolution of Naprapathy. Association for the History of Chiropractic, 77-82.
- ↑ Zarbuck, Merwyn D. C.(1986)
- ↑ A Profession for Bohemian Chiropractic: Oakley Smith and the Evolution of Naprapathy. Association for the History of Chiropractic, 77-82.
- ↑ Bovine, Gary D. C. (2012)
- ↑ The Bohemian Thrust: Frank Dvorsky, the Bohemian "Napravit" Bonesetter. Chiropractic History, 39-45.
- ↑ Zarbuck, Merwyn D. C.(1986). A Profession for Bohemian Chiropractic: Oakley Smith and the Evolution of Naprapathy. Association for the History of Chiropractic, 77-82.
