Correction – Tønsberg Cathedral not Tromso
Maurice Cheng MBE is singing Mozarts Requiem at Tønsberg Cathedral on Nov 1st 2026, NOT Tromso. Apologies I misheard.
Maurice Cheng on Osteopaths, the Odyssey, and getting an MBE
I chatted with Maurice about his time at the iO, his view of osteopathy, his plans with Osteopathy Europe, and he filled me in a little about his life along with way. You can hear him sing in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem at Tonsberg Cathedral in Norway on 1st November 2026. Thanks for following…
The Microbiome: a few things you might not know
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…
Finally – A Malaria Vaccine
Mal-aria Ok, I know a few interesting facts about malaria, I’d call them fun facts but it doesn’t seem very appropriate.. The word malaria literally means Bad Air – Mal meaning bad, Aria meaning air – harking back to the miasma theory, which said that diseases travelled around in a kind of invisible cloud of…
Book Review: Do No Harm, by brain surgeon Henry Marsh
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 –…
OMG: The Glasses That Can Detect Parkinson’s (and Film Your Lunch)
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…
My Osteopathic Life – Joanna Wildy, Osteopath
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…
Can osteopathy cure chronic hiccups?
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…
Evidence-Based Medicine and Covid: the experts speak up
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…
Can we agree on a definition of manipulation?
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,…
