A one day symposium, at St George’s, University of London, 28 September 2016. A collaboration between the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, and the CauseHealth Project. OK. Take a deep breath. I just did. Because on opening my notebook to begin trying to make sense of this amazing one-day Symposium in London, I have…
Edited and revised September 2016 One talk caught my eye in the COPA brochure last year. Compared to the gimmicks and hard sell of some of the technologies on exhibit, this sounded like an old-fashioned, modest, and serious research project. It was presented by a nurse from a Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre in Bedford called…
The enigmatic case of cranial osteopathy: Evidence versus clinical practice Pages 1-4 IJOM September 2016 Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, Francesco Cerritelli Well, and doesn’t this sound intriguing? It’s the opening piece in the most recent IJOM and seems to have been prompted by the big French physiotherapists’ study of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field (OCF). The authors…
Edited with new photos and comment, September 2016 I have spent so long thinking of osteopathy as a profession twinned with chiropractic that physiotherapy has passed me by. I would never have thought to consider it as a career, because it seemed to be a dull occupation, lacking the depth, the sophistication, and the intellectual and…
First things first. It had been a lively time in politics since the previous meeting, and I approached Tower Bridge Road prepared for anything. But despite the toppling of leaders, the discombobulation of the political landscape, the intrigue, the treachery, the kitten heels, the venomous, hilarious twitterfest, the sheer unstoppable, unadulterated drama on the news…
A CPD Gateway Talk by Mr Manu Mehra. manu.mehra@nhs.net We spend a lot of time touching people’s skin. But we’re mostly concerned with what’s going on underneath it. As osteopaths it is not explicitly our responsibility to be checking for cancer or diagnosing fungal infections, but people have all sorts of lumps and bumps and…
I am highly intellectually attracted to skeptics and their writing. Their books are intelligent and entertaining, and they write about subject matters which I find fascinating. If I drew a Venn diagram with skeptics on the one side and alternative therapists on the other, I would be in that segment in the middle. I used…
I was recently alerted to a very interesting article, written by a Swedish naprapath called Tim Husted- (no I’d never heard of naprapathy either, but it sounds a bit like what we do) – whose list and bank balance shrank following his conversion to the biopsychosocial model. It is called When your therapeutic ideology becomes a…
Reflection on a new paper to be published in IJOM Somatic dysfunction: An osteopathic conundrum Gary Fryer IJOM (2016) I am something of a pedant in examining the literal origins of words. This is a little bit jarring if you work in osteopathy, which sounds like it should be about diseases of bones. Another…
Edited and updated June 2016. This has been one of the most popular blogs on osteofm.com. The most significant change is to the paragraph titled “Osteopathy needs different sort of research to standard scientific research”. I have altered this in the light of the work being done by CauseHealth. It’s been many months since I…
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