Open Source Technique has real history behind it. In the 1920s, Dr. Richard Van Rumpt discovered and refined a way to use the body itself as an instrument, reading exactly how injury, stress, and trauma get stored in the tissue.
That original work is where this lineage begins. What I practice today, Open Source Technique (OST), carries it forward: careful, real-time analysis of the body, paired with corrections gentle enough that there’s no popping or cracking involved at all.
The core idea hasn’t changed in a hundred years: the body holds onto old injury and stress in specific, findable ways, and when you address it precisely, you don’t need force to fix it.
Want the practical version? Here’s how OST works today, in my own practice in Salt Lake City.