Since the beginning of osteopathy, somatic dysfunction has represented a central concept within osteopathy, according to Michael M. Patterson. Later osteopaths further developed Still’s approaches to the lesion concept, for which the term “osteopathic lesion” was coined, which ultimately evolved into the term “somatic dysfunction.”

Morphodynamics in Osteopathy: Fundamentals and Application Using the Cranial Sphere as an Example
This volume develops a developmental and system-dynamic frame of reference for osteopathic thinking: physical, biological, rhythmic, and phenomenological aspects of tissue dynamics are brought together

