Editing Osteopathy (section)

=== United States ===
{{Main|Osteopathic medicine in the United States}}
An ''osteopathic physician'' in the United States is a physician trained in the full scope of medical practice, with a degree of [[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine]] (DO).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/40/physician.pdf |title=Medicine |publisher=American Medical Association |access-date=20 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="Harrisons">{{cite book |first1=Dennis L. |last1=Kasper |first2=Eugene |last2=Braunwald |first3=Anthony S. |last3=Fauci |first4=Stephen L. |last4=Hauser |first5=Dan L. |last5=Longo |first6=J. Larry |last6=Jameson |first7=Kurt J. |last7=Isselbacher |chapter-url=http://accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=9106846 |chapter=Chapter 10. Complementary and Alternative Medicine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224095507/http://accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=9106846 |archive-date=24 December 2013 |title=Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine |edition=16th |date=2005 |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncmedboard.org/faqs/list/category/consumer_info#what_is_a_doctor_of_osteopathic_medicine_do |title=Consumer Info FAQs |publisher=North Carolina Medical Board |access-date=20 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002020.htm |title=Doctor of Osteopathic medicine |author=MedlinePlus |year=2012 |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine |access-date=25 October 2012}}</ref> With the increased internationalization of osteopathy, the [[American Osteopathic Association]] (AOA) recommended in 2010 that the older terms ''osteopathy'' and ''osteopath'' be reserved for "informal or historical discussions and for referring to previously named entities in the profession and foreign-trained osteopaths", and replaced in the US by ''osteopathic medicine'' and ''osteopathic physician''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=24181 |title=AOA House reasserts preferred terms ''osteopathic physician'', ''osteopathic medicine'' |date=4 August 2010 |last=Schierhorn |first=Carolyn |website=The DO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006043533/http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=24181 |archive-date=6 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=26191 |title=Promoting DOs: Words, medium change, but message stays the same |date=3 September 2010 |last=Croby |first=John B. Crosby |website=The DO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012035325/http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=26191 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine]] made a similar recommendation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-aoa/about/leadership/aoa-policy-search/Documents/H315-A2015-OSTEOPATH-AND-OSTEOPATHY-USE-OF-THE-TERM.pdf |title=H315-A/15 Osteopath and Osteopathy - Use of the Term |year=2015 |website=American Osteopathic Association |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406225809/http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-aoa/about/leadership/aoa-policy-search/Documents/H315-A2015-OSTEOPATH-AND-OSTEOPATHY-USE-OF-THE-TERM.pdf |archive-date=6 April 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Those trained only in manual osteopathic treatment, generally to relieve muscular and skeletal conditions, are referred to as osteopaths,<ref>{{cite web |title=Osteopath |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/osteopath|website=dictionary.cambridge.org |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |access-date=4 August 2017}}</ref> and are not permitted to use the title DO in the United States{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} to avoid confusion with osteopathic physicians.<ref name=SBM/>