Not knowing a condition that a patient mentions – Talking to doctors – Friends doing massage courses and me suspecting they might give better treatments than me – Meeting craniosacral therapists – Bumping into ex–patients and their Mums at toddler group, especially ones that never came back – Being asked how does this work? –…
Not so long ago I was very grateful to receive a communication from an osteopath about my oft-repeated interpretation of the word “osteopathy”. I have always taken it to mean, in an etymological sense, “diseases of the bones”. I was relating the “path” bit to “pathology”, without having looked deeper at its meaning. This astute…
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…
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…
In order to come up with a newer, cheaper, more sensitive test for a type of cancer, I would expect that you might need a degree at the least, followed by years of immersion in your chosen field, a lucky discovery and the support of a team of researchers. But it turns out you can…
Search engines have an autocomplete function. I decided to type some incomplete phrases into Google and Yahoo to see what they might reveal about the general public’s views of osteopathy. Somewhat demoralized, I made myself feel better by doing the same with chiropractors, physiotherapists and doctors. I came up with the following snapshot: issues of…
Have you ever wondered if there are other osteopaths out there like you? Other osteopaths curious to know things like, how many osteopaths are still manipulating necks? How reliable is the SLR, really? What do classical osteopaths actually do? When will there be some decent evidence for cranial? How do we engage the skeptics? DO…
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