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? –…
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…
For someone as irrationally paranoid about having a complaint made against them as I am, it is somewhat paradoxical that I find Osteopathy House, the headquarters of GOsC, to emit such a homely and inviting feel, pulling me like a subtle magnet to Tower Bridge Rd. I can never entirely dislodge the fear that one…
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…
Somatic dysfunction – Conceptually fascinating, but does it help us address health needs? IJOM Vol 22, Dec 2016, Pages 1-2 You only need to read the title of Robert Moran’s editorial, to know that the answer to his question is probably going to be some sort of “No”. This editorial accompanies Gary Fryer’s piece: “Somatic…
Like the changing of the seasons, or the birth of a new baby, we have no control over the timetable of the new CPD scheme. It’s coming, whether you like it or not. But it probably won’t be entirely, inescapably, in place until about Autumn 2018. Eager to be ahead of the curve, I signed…
As the comments following Professor Tyreman’ s recent blog swirled higher and higher above my head, I ceased trying to understand them. However I have been roused from intellectual torpor by this piece, which is a follow on and clarification of that first one. It is ostensibly an answer to one comment in particular by Rasmus…
It’s been a slightly stressful year for the world, somehow. I’m looking forward to a warming, cheering period of festive fun, and I hope you all have a nice break. Thanks to everyone for reading and contributing, and let’s see what 2017 brings. See you in January, have a nice break.
The last NICE guidelines for low back pain, which were indeed quite nice to osteopaths (along with acupuncturists and chiropractors), came into action around 2009/10. Now we have a new set of guidelines, which have just been published. So what do the guidelines say? Find the official guidelines here. And a good roundup from the…
When I was first thinking about beginning an osteopathy website, I was lucky to know the lady who was running Pineapple Dance Studio’s website. Without her pointers, mostly grabbed on the school run with takeaway coffees in hand, osteofm would have struggled to get off the ground. One thing she kept saying, over and over, …
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