When I was first thinking about beginning an osteopathy website, I was lucky to know the lady who was running Pineapple Dance Studio’s website. Without her pointers, mostly grabbed on the school run with takeaway coffees in hand, osteofm would have struggled to get off the ground. One thing she kept saying, over and over, …
Quiet dissent: The attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of UK osteopaths who reject low back pain guidance – A qualitative study Joanna Figg-Latham and Devan Rajendran, (ESO), in Manual Therapy. Not yet in press but available online October 2016, free to osteopaths via the GOsC website Quiet dissent: a lovely phrase to start off a research…
Serendipitously, just after I had joined Twitter and was considering writing about osteopathy, a tweet appeared that Edzard Ernst would be giving a talk in Eastbourne to a local sceptics’ society. Now Ernst was the first ever Professor of Complementary Medicine, at Exeter University. He is pretty down on osteopathy, and I remember the day…
I met up with an old friend from university recently. He’s called Richard for the purposes of this blog. I hadn’t seen him for a few years. He told me his girlfriend had had bladder cancer. I know this blog is largely read by clinicians who love a bit of case history, so here follows…
This is an update of a previous post, with new material added October 2016. Rod Stewart had a brief stint working as a decorator before leopardskin-clad superstardom struck: “You learn a lot about yourself from doing physical work”, he said, ” and what I learnt was that I don’t like physical work”. I was reminded of…
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