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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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…
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…
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