A manual medicine consultation has existed in the canton of Vaud for ten years now, developed within Unisanté, the university centre for general medicine and public health in Lausanne. For a long time, this consultation was the only one of its kind set up in a university setting in Switzerland. Despite a growing interest and a more important development in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany, this approach remains relatively unknown to patients and therapists in the French-speaking cantons. This birthday is an opportunity to put the spotlight on what manual medicine is, to retrace the history of the establishment of the consultation in the canton and to illustrate its practice through a clinical vignette.