Text of Antonio Ruiz de Azua Mercadal, licensed in Biology at Barcelona University,
Doctor and surgeon graduated from the Barcelona’s university, osteopath.
“Osteopathy is only in its infancy, it is a great unknown sea just discovered, and as yet we are only acquainted with its shore-tide.” AT Still [1].
During the 20th century, osteopaths were investigating the origin of certain biomechanical spinal alterations, unexplainable by the physical laws of Newton, based on the gravity force.
Thanks to his insight and observations, William Garner Sutherland [2] describe...