There’s a charming building in the heart of that quietly fashionable part of London called Marylebone, where you can find medical doctors training to become osteopaths. The college is called the London College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is run by the Osteopathic Trusts, which was founded by American osteopaths in 1931 to train doctors in…
I began hearing of the Academy of Physical Medicine from friends about two years ago; I seemed to be the only osteopath who wasn’t on their email list. I took a quick look at their website but didn’t sign up as I already had plenty of CPD hours. But when I saw the chance to…
This is a brief summary of a study published in the latest IJOM, on the important and in-vogue subject of how patients with low back pain interpret what we say, and in turn, how that affects them. ‘Talking a different language’: a qualitative study of chronic low back pain patients’ interpretation of the language used…
I don’t think we studied “listening skills” at college, and I’ve never been on a course specifically addressed to this, but I never thought that mattered because I thought I was pretty good at it. Always interested in a patient’s life, always letting them talk and murmuring encouragement and validation; I thought I had it…
Waiting to join the Academy of Physical Medicine’s live webinar on advertising, an age- old childhood question about TVs resurfaced: I can see the screen – but can it see me? This has total legitimacy in the age of webcams and Smart technology, so I decided to hold off on the nightwear and keep my…
It seems that every meeting these days occurs in the wake of a new political bombshell of some sort, and at the May meeting it was the surprise General Election. I wonder if this period of history will become known as the “Age of Uncertainty”, or the “Wobbly Years”, or even the “Strange Political Times”. The latest…
I rarely, rarely manipulate cervical spines. I hardly ever did CT junctions anyway, but that’s mostly because I never really got the hang of them. But necks, I used to love them. By far the easiest manipulation, I used a cradle hold, had really nice, high velocity and low amplitude and could easily produce a…
I’ve been aware of CORE of Clapton for some time now. I knew it was something to do with a pair of osteopaths called Danny and Duncan, who were interested in research; I knew they wanted to provide low-cost treatment for persistent pain in the borough of Hackney; and I had also gleaned they were…
It’s still a while till the CPD scheme officially begins, (September 2018 I believe), and so still plenty of time to get to grips with it, but there are a few misconceptions floating around, that would be better nipped in the bud. So here goes, a little more clarity…. You CAN do your peer review…
J Martin Littlejohn (1865–1947) and James Buchan Littlejohn (1868–1947): Two distinct directions – Osteopathy and the birth of osteopathic medicine John O’Brien, IJOM March 2017, Vol 23 pp 4-10 Seeing as this blog is one lengthy confessional where I lay bare my professional ignorance at the altar of social media, I might as well give…
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