What Lederman got Right and What Lederman Got Wrong

Eyal Lederman's 2010 paper The Fall of the Postural–Structural–Biomechanical Model is often presented as the moment osteopathy moved beyond structure and into a modern biopsychosocial era. But what if Lederman was right about his target — and the profession drew the wrong conclusion? In this episode, I explore what Lederman actually criticised, why many of his objections were justified, and why the practice he dismantled may not have been osteopathy at all. Instead, I argue that osteopathy had already drifted away from its founding principle: that the body is a living, organised whole whose structure, function and adaptation cannot be reduced to isolated findings or faults. This is not a call to return to the past. It is an argument for recovering the principle of unity, translating the insights of Still and Littlejohn into contemporary terms, and asking from what place osteopathy should move forward. A discussion of history, science, palpation, mechanobiology and the future identity of the profession.