It’s a big day for me, today, posting my first ever YouTube video. It’s many years now since I had the idea to have a YouTube channel called OsteoFM, but I got engrossed in writing the blog, earning money, then covid happened, then new jobs to get good at…. But today’s the day! A chat…
Am I autistic, or am I just bad at social chitchat and a bit obsessive?Is my husband autistic, or does he just like documentaries about modifying cars? Surely I can’t be the only one who’s pondered questions like these. The good news is that there’s an actually an easy, free, instant way to find out.…
Gut Instinct: Why Microbial Diversity Matters – a talk by Professor Kevin Foster at Meeting Minds 2025, Oxford University I don’t think it will come as a surprise to many manual therapists out there that we are absolutely crawling with microbes (just to get clear on the wording: the word microbe is shorthand for, (and…
Mal-aria Ok, I know a few interesting facts about malaria, I’d call them fun facts but it doesn’t seem very appropriate.. And I know a few facts which are, in fact, extremely serious and sad. I learnt these courtesy of Doctor Mehreen Datoo, at Oxford’s annual Meeting Minds Conference 2025. She is a clinical lecturer…
Brain surgeon has to be up there with rocket scientist as one of the jobs which sounds like it’s the winner of the Most Impressive Job competition. You have to be very brainy, very skilled, and the stakes are as high as they get. The wonderful thing about this book – Do No Harm –…
In the near future our glasses might be able to advise us on our diet, warn us we might be in the early stages of Parkinson’s, and let us know if we should seek help for our mental health. Yes, by glasses I mean spectacles. Or rather “eyewear”, for the modern reader. Years ago, I…
In a shameless ripoff of the back page of the Sunday Times money section, in which a different person each week was asked questions about their finances and how they managed them, I have decided that this would be a great idea for the blog. Osteopaths can find out about how other osteopaths manage their…
How much do I know about hiccups? I do realise that hiccups are not caused by elves, as was thought in Olde England. I know that they are sometimes confusingly spelt hiccoughs, making me want to pronounce the word awkwardly as hick – offs. I have a hazy notion that the basic hiccup can be…
I was lucky enough to sign up for a lecture at Kellogg College, home of Oxford University’s Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, given by Professor Carl Heneghan, and Dr. Tom Jefferson. They promised to enlighten us on the subject of “Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM): Why it’s important and Why It’s Controversial”. I was nearly tempted by a…
The precise definition of the word “manipulation” to indicate a certain technique has always been quite problematic for manual therapists, and a recent paper attempts to pin it down to something neater which can be universally used and understood. here is the link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36918833/ What do we mean by manipulation? When I was at osteopathy college,…
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