Osteopathy encompasses a wide range of manually applied therapies, considering wider/global dysfunction patterns within the patient as well as the specific dysfunctional segment.

In Osteopathy the segment includes spinal segmental components and all the relevant neurological, embryological, fascial and vascular connections. Dysfunction in any one of those components will affect the function of the whole segment and the interconnectedness of the body as a whole means that there may be consequences widely throughout the body.

Identification of dysfunction in all areas and the management of relationships between the various areas of dysfunction identified is critical to Osteopathy and therefore ABM.