Other alternative practices such as chiropractic and osteopathic manipulative medicine, were developed in the United States at a time that western medicine was beginning to incorporate scientific methods and theories, but the biomedical model was not yet totally dominant.
Nogle alternative behandlingsmetoder såsom kiropraktik og osteopatisk manipulativ medicin blev udviklet i USA på et tidspunkt hvor vestlig medicin var begyndt at bruge videnskabelige metoder og teorier, men den biomedicinske model var stadig ikke totalt dominerende.