About JOMO

JOMO was established in response to the current ethical, epistemological, and institutional crisis of traditional osteopathy. Osteopathy has lost its soul as it was trying to gain acceptance in the medical community. The task of JOMO is to constitute the osteopathic, experiential base while establishing the sound framework of its tissue-based manual treatment in the context of a bio-mechanical theory of health and disease.

JOMO is committed to avoid past mistakes and encourages a critical reflection of the basic assumption of the last 100 years. The so-called “principles of osteopathy” turned out to be a plague, that strangled the development of osteopathy. The seven plagues have to be cured to meet the needs of Modern Osteopathy.

JOMO will contribute in constituting Modern Osteopathy by fostering a debate on the fundamentals of osteopathy and on its scope of practice.

JOMO will create Modern Osteopathy as clinical experience and science within an university-style culture of open and free discourse.