Osteopathy is a system of manual medicine employing spinal manipulation that focuses primarily on the musculo-skeletal system. Its based on bio-mechanics, and how tensions and restrictions throughout the body can affect physiology, homeotasis, and therefore health and function.

Osteopaths use manual techniques to help restore normal movement to joints and normal tension and elastisity to muscles and other soft tissues, to aid both physical and mental well-being. Osteopathy encourages normal function and enhances the body's natural self-healing and restorative properties. Restoring mechanical and soft tissue balanace benefits the structures of the body, and improves the body's physiological mechanisms.