Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Treatment of disease by manipulation of joints, muscles, and ligaments and nutritional therapy, based on the belief that many diseases are caused by displacement of connective tissues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A branch of
alternative medicine , amanipulative therapy that focuses on the evaluation and treatment ofneuromusculoskeletal conditions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neurotherapy and spondylotherapy, as we have learned, are various systems of maipulative treatment which have been devised mainly to correct spinal and other bony lesions, shrinkage and contracture of muscles, ligaments and other connective tissues.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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The various modern systems of spinal manipulation, namely, osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neuropathy, spondylotherapy and our own neurotherapy, are all of distinctly American origin.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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The differences between the groups in pain and disability considered over one year were statistically significant favoring naprapathy (p [less than or equal to] 0.005).
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Combined manual therapy, like naprapathy, is effective in the short and in the long term, and might be considered for patients with non-specific back and/or neck pain.
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