A CPD Gateway Talk by Mr Manu Mehra. manu.mehra@nhs.net We spend a lot of time touching people’s skin. But we’re mostly concerned with what’s going on underneath it. As osteopaths it is not explicitly our responsibility to be checking for cancer or diagnosing fungal infections, but people have all sorts of lumps and bumps and…
I am highly intellectually attracted to skeptics and their writing. Their books are intelligent and entertaining, and they write about subject matters which I find fascinating. If I drew a Venn diagram with skeptics on the one side and alternative therapists on the other, I would be in that segment in the middle. I used…
I was recently alerted to a very interesting article, written by a Swedish naprapath called Tim Husted- (no I’d never heard of naprapathy either, but it sounds a bit like what we do) – whose list and bank balance shrank following his conversion to the biopsychosocial model. It is called When your therapeutic ideology becomes a…
Reflection on a new paper to be published in IJOM Somatic dysfunction: An osteopathic conundrum Gary Fryer IJOM (2016) I am something of a pedant in examining the literal origins of words. This is a little bit jarring if you work in osteopathy, which sounds like it should be about diseases of bones. Another…
Edited and updated June 2016. This has been one of the most popular blogs on osteofm.com. The most significant change is to the paragraph titled “Osteopathy needs different sort of research to standard scientific research”. I have altered this in the light of the work being done by CauseHealth. It’s been many months since I…
Last year a friend told me his employer was paying for him to go on a leadership course run by American Express. At least three thoughts entered my head in quick succession: Why? Do you want to get involved in politics? I guess it’s the kind of corporate junket where you go for a day…
I took my box of human bones into my son’s class the other day. I don’t know how a year 3 class normally behaves, but as soon as I took the first bone out of its bubble wrap (by chance the femur, that most typical of bones), hands went up, attention was intense, feedback was…
………..continued from last week….. see part 1 here This week’s blog highlights the somewhat fragmentary feel of the day. Charting the evolution of Evidence Based Medicine in physiotherapy was a piece of cake compared to some of what we tried to get our heads around. Amongst the speakers were different groups: practising physios, neuroscientists, and…
I can’t remember why I raced to book a ticket to the CauseHealth Conference in Nottingham in May. It might have been because it only cost £35 (lunch included!), it might have been because lots of keen-minded people I follow on twitter were excited about it (sports physio Adam Meakins, Neil Maltby, Chews Health…),…
I somehow deleted my photo of Osteopathy House, so here is the Tower of London instead, which is not far down the road. A Brand New Council This was the first meeting of the new, more streamlined Council. A few faces were missing, and a few were new. I had been looking forward to showing…
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