Biomedical origins of the term 'osteopathic lesion' and its impact on people in pain

Osteopathic manual practitioners in Canada use, and continue to be educated to use the term 'osteopathic lesion'. This term is either derived from or directly drawn from the biomedical model; the overarching framework through which most healthcare is delivered. Use of the term illustrates the adoption and misappropriation of a biomedical term and follows the same curative reasoning processes as in biomedicine. Manual osteopathic practitioners …