As the comments following Professor Tyreman’ s recent blog swirled higher and higher above my head, I ceased trying to understand them. However I have been roused from intellectual torpor by this piece, which is a follow on and clarification of that first one. It is ostensibly an answer to one comment in particular by Rasmus…
It’s been a slightly stressful year for the world, somehow. I’m looking forward to a warming, cheering period of festive fun, and I hope you all have a nice break. Thanks to everyone for reading and contributing, and let’s see what 2017 brings. See you in January, have a nice break.
The last NICE guidelines for low back pain, which were indeed quite nice to osteopaths (along with acupuncturists and chiropractors), came into action around 2009/10. Now we have a new set of guidelines, which have just been published. So what do the guidelines say? Find the official guidelines here. And a good roundup from the…
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…
Originally posted on Simple Physiotherapy:
As most of us do after attending CPD events, we reflect on how we may change our practise or something entirely new that we may incorporate. I thought I would put my reflections on here for myself to revisit and for anyone that is interested in what some of the…
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…
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