When I first became an osteopath, I remember lots of people saying “Is it mostly old people you see?”. Funnily enough, it wasn’t. I didn’t see that many elderly people, certainly not a disproportionately large number. (If anything it was disproportionately fewer). But I know why people said it. It seems to be a prevalent…
As someone who couldn’t even work Facebook nine months ago, it came as something of a shock to find I was involved in a Twitter spat with Simon Singh, one of osteopathy’s fiercest critics. What next? A public fracas with Richard Dawkins? However several emails and a long phone call later, feathers were unruffled, a…
In February of this year, 2015, a team of researchers published a report into osteopathic regulation. You can sound knowledgeable by simply mentioning it as the “McGivern research”. They specifically wanted to find out how they could help us to practise in accordance with the OPS (Osteopathic Practice Standards). It’s quite a lengthy report, and…
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