In order to answer that question, I have to get technical and split hairs with wording… as osteopaths we perform manipulation.  The Indiana Academy instructors teach osteopathic manipulation.  If you are not an osteopath (DO) or an MD, you can not call what you do when treating another person osteopathic manipulation (otherwise it is practicing medicine without a license-which could get you in a lot of legal trouble and/or land you in jail).  That being said, if you have a license in the state in which you live to touch another human being therapeutically (or the foreign country where you reside), and are licensed to interact with the musculoskeletal system, we welcome you into our courses. Anyone in the allied health field is welcome to attend!

You must use what you learn within the scope of your individual licensure and not call it “osteopathy”, “osteopathic medicine”, osteopathic manipulation”, or call yourself an “osteopathic practitioner”, “ osteopath”, etc.  You also can’t say that you have had “osteopathic training”.  If you have any questions about that, please read up on what you are allowed to do in your scope of practice.  You can take the knowledge you learn with us and apply it to helping people though (and we certainly hope that you do).