Cranial osteopathy is not and should not be thought of as an exclusive, specialised programme of health care. Even less should there be a temptation to consider cranial osteopathy as a cure-all, however effective it is in many instances. Students include masseurs, reflexologists, aromatherapists, kinesiologists and acupuncturists as well as osteopaths and chiropractors. From the orthodox professions come podiatrists, physiotherapists, dentists, midwives, medical doctors and nurses. The last sentence reflects a much debated issue at present, something for the correspondence pages of this journal perhaps.
Individuals proceed through life by unveiling aspects of themselves as they mature.
I doubt that they end up with characteristics additional to those with which they were born. In the same way, osteopathy as conceived by Still yields up facets of its inner truths with every new worker in the field. Sutherland was osteopathy's facet developer of inspired and painstaking quality. His product deserves the title cranial osteopathy. Every function depends upon an impulse generated in some part of the brain.