Is osteopathic medicine "alternative medicine?"?!

Is osteopathic medicine "alternative medicine?"?

Osteopathic medicine today is essentially the same thing as traditional medicine, there being very little difference between a DO and an MD. I'll give you a brief history of osteopathy...It was started in the 1890s, and its main theory was that stationary body fluids were the cause of disease, so they had more of a manual medicine approach, performing manipulationsand prescribing herbs, and homeopathic remedies, and being more "holistic" Chiropractic came along not too long after, proclaiming that the reason to perform manipulations (adjustments) was to affect the nervous system and to reestablish normal motion, because intereference with these things decreases the immune system, leaving it susceptible to other things to cause disease. As time went on, this theory has been shown to be a more realistic point of view, and many osteopaths viewed chiropractors as "stealing their idea" but there was no proof to base the body fluid theory, so they realized they had to do something, so they were essentially absorbed into allopathic medicine in the 1950s. Since then most osteopathic schools have the same curriculum as medical schools, with the adjusting and nutritional protocols being elective classes. So essentially, no it is not alternative medicine.