As the wellbeing of an individual depends on their bones, muscles, ligaments and connective tissue functioning smoothly together, Osteopathy is a drug-free, non-invasive manual therapy that aims to improve health across all body systems by manipulating and strengthening the musculoskeletal framework. Osteopathy treatment  emphasizes on various treatment techniques like  manual readjustments, myofascial release and other physical manipulation of muscle tissue and bones. It greatly helps in increasing the mobility of joints, relieving muscle tension, enhancing the blood supply to tissues  thus helping the body to heal

Practitioners of osteopathy are referred to as osteopaths. Its name derives from Ancient Greek "bone" and "sensitive to" or "responding to" While the national health services of some countries consider there is "good" evidence for osteopathy as a treatment for low back pain and "limited evidence to suggest it may be effective for some types of neck, shoulder or lower limb pain and recovery after hip or knee operations", there is no, or insufficient, evidence that osteopathy is effective as a treatment for health conditions "unrelated" to the bones and muscles, "such as headaches, migraines, painful periods, digestive disorders, depression and excessive crying in babies;