bone setter
Traditional fracture healer
A bone setter is a practitioner who treats fractures, dislocations, and musculoskeletal problems through manual manipulation—setting bones back into place without surgery.
Bone setters traditionally learned through apprenticeship rather than formal medical training, and the practice predates modern orthopedics.
The term now often distinguishes folk healers from licensed physicians: The village bone setter had been treating injuries for forty years.
- healerOne who restores health
- laying on handsHealing through physical contact
- healing handsAbility to cure through contact
- fractureSplit in hard material
- splintDevice immobilizing injured limbs
joint · joint pain · manipulation · traditional · traditional medicine · folk · folk remedy · old wives · medicine · back crack · crack · realign · massage · hands · village · village elder · herbalist · dislocation
- folk healersfolk healer, healer, herbalist, herb doctor, wise woman
- Old Healershealer, physician, surgeon, apothecary, midwife
- healersnurse, doctor, physician, surgeon, medic
- pseudoscientistshomeopath, phrenologist, crystal healer, numerologist, reflexologist
- tribal elderstribal elder, clan elder, village elder, community elder, council elder
- TCM practitionersacupuncturist
bone setterorthopedic surgeon
Doctor treating musculoskeletal conditions
surgeon · orthopedist · medical doctor · trauma surgeon · osteopath
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