Osteopathic and Manual Therapy Healthcare Reconceptualization: Health Needs and New Evidence

Dear Colleagues,

Over recent decades, osteopathy and manual therapies have seen significant progress in their scientific rationale and background. This process is happening in a parallel fashion in the whole healthcare community, where the idea of system medicine is opening new possibilities to interpret the healthcare system and its role. The scientific production has increasingly allowed clinicians to develop now evidence-informed approaches fostering the critical appraisal of each discipline’s philosophy. However, this process is still moving forward, and it is accordingly carrying forward the involved professions. Moreover, being able to interpret philosophical/theoretical concepts in the light of newly discovered scientific evidence is helping clinicians and researchers to reframe and develop new conceptual models of care.

At the moment, we can assist in a strong effort in the scientific community for a renovation of allegedly outdated and unsupported tenets. It is time to move a step further and start proposing new supported models to allow a continuous evolution of each profession from a theoretical, clinical, academic, and scientific perspective.

We want to foster the much-needed reconceptualization of osteopathic care and other manual therapies with this Special Issue. Nevertheless, on the other hand, we encourage authors to nourish the debate on this central topic and push towards strengthening a scientific community of practice where informed and supported discussions will represent the lifeblood of each profession.

Dr. Marco Tramontano
Guest Editor

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