Unusual. An osteopath from Mulhouse travels to the United States and practices in Amish country.

For an osteopath, going to Kirksville, Missouri, is like going to Milwaukee for a Harley-Davidson owner. Because it's in this city that everything began for osteopathy, enthuses Bernard Jurth: "Can you imagine? It was in 1892 when the foundations of osteopathy were laid by Andrew Taylor Still. It arrived in England in 1917 and it wasn't until the 1960s that we heard about the discipline in France... When I started in the 1980s, there were just a handful of us. Today, there are 50,000 of us and one in two French people has already consulted an osteopath! So my idea was to take a trip in the footsteps of ^Dr. Still."

Bernard Jurth has been to the United States many times, but this is the first...

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