Original title: William Garner Sutherland, The Founder of Cranial Osteopathy


Unpublished MSc thesis, Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, 2008/09, 98, type of study: ,rev,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Keywords:

concept development [1]
cranial osteopathy [64]
H.I. Magoun [1]
scientific proof [1]
terminology [43]
W.G. Sutherland [4]
review [753]
msc thesis [23]
WSO [508]

Abstract:

This paper deals with William Garner Sutherland and the development of the Cranial Concept and is a literary study. The books “The Cranial Bowl” by von William Garner Sutherland and “Osteopathy in the Cranial Field“ by Harold I. Magoun are the most important historical foundations. Contents are outlined briefly and compared to each other, in order to analyse the beginning, continuation and further development of the hypothesis. Furthermore this thesis deals with the terms used in the Cranial Concept, the explanation and demarcation of which seems to be a problem of the Concept. The discussion of the terms used as well as of the scientific provability of the Concept is a necessary and important element for the positioning of the Cranial Osteopathy in our times.