To get everyone kickstarted back in to the new academic year, here is a really interesting research piece from one of UCO’s bright sparks, Maria Larrain, who previously guested on osteofm with her essay about placebo. She looks at the experience of touch in an osteopathic treatment, and the concordance between patient and practitioner. Note: Research…
and on the hottest weekend of the year, delegates arrive for a weekend of Enquiry, Research and Evidence in the air-conditioned splendour of Wokefield Park, Reading Some years ago I attended the Hidden Treasures Conference held by the Sutherland Cranial College of Osteopathy – a conference promising to showcase the state of play of research…
While I have been gaily writing blogs on any passing topic that piques my interest, I am all too well aware that I can only do this because I stand on the shoulders of all those osteopaths (and other manual therapists) who spend considerable time and intellectual effort doing the sterling groundwork necessary to create…
Last year, I spent positively hours and hours researching issues of child safeguarding in osteopathy for the Centre for Reviews and Summaries, set up by the National Council for Osteopathic Research. At the end of it all I had personally learnt an awful lot about how to spot emotional abuse, when it was mandatory to…
It’s not often that I have just met one of the key players in a medical media story, but this was the interesting situation I found myself in a couple of weeks ago when the SMILE Trial into the efficacy of a treatment for teenagers with non-severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome hit the news. Only a couple…
Eyal Lederman is a big figure in osteopathy. And unusually for osteopathy, he is even quite a big figure outside of osteopathy in the wider manual therapy world. I don’t think he is in any osteopathic camp – classical, cranial, biomechanical – but he has forged his own interesting path. If anything he fits neatly…
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…
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…
OK it’s a long one, so you might want to grab a coffee before you sit down to read it. For the information of the uninitiated, everyone I know pronounces NCOR like N-Core, making it sound like a rap star, or a sciencey-term for a nuclear reactor or particle. I just entered NCOR as a…
If you have read my previously impassioned pleas for more research in osteopathy, and have gained an insight into my love for my NCOR Research Hub (Haywards Heath division), you might have made the mistake of thinking I know something about research. I might have a strange propensity to do things like pour my tea…
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