What is osteopathy exactly? I still take a deep breath every time someone asks me what osteopaths do. I’ve never been able to formulate a standard answer, because I find osteopathy is hard to explain even to myself. I think I try to make people feel better. Using my hands and my brain. Usually because…
(Updates have been added since this post was first published a few months ago. Yes, things are moving on at a pace) Do you know what’s going on in the world of osteopathy? Have you been doing your duty and keeping “up to date” with current trends and research? If you’re feeling out of the…
I’m signing off till the New Year now, but just want to say thank you to everyone in 2015 who has been so encouraging and supportive of this fledgling osteopathy blog. I’ve been having a ball writing this. What began as a vague idea to have a bit of a career change, and maybe try…
I turned up panic-stricken with my six year old son in A and E a little while ago. He was having proper breathing difficulties. I drove him through the busy town centre promising him anything from trips to the fair to “crisps later” to try to keep him happy and calm as he periodically struggled…
I turned up for my second ever meeting of the GOsC, feeling a bit like the court reporter. I was at an advantage this time: I was able to find the building, I knew there would be coffee, I had managed to find the agenda and papers on the GOsC website – (Just before the…
We start with the subject that strikes so many osteopaths with fear and fascination:- Complaints: How many were there and what did people complain about in 2014? Yes 2014 seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it. NCOR have gathered information about “causes of concerns raised about osteopaths” from iO, GOsC and the insurers. So…
Guest spot this week: Mark Andrews of Kemptown Osteopathy in Brighton has kindly allowed me to use the full version of his review of Aches and Pains (an edited version appearing in the latest “the osteopath” magazine). He did in fact put me on to this book, written by a late, great physio called Louis…
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…
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino
for writers and readers....
Scottish Doctor, author, speaker, sceptic
A supportive community of writers
by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'
osteofm 