It will come as no surprise to many osteopaths out there that there might be a link between head trauma, even in the distant past, and a patient’s current psychological state. It seems self-evident to those of us who have palpated many heads in our lives and heard the many histories that accompany them. However…
A reminder of the great mind and gentle humanity of Stephen Tyreman. I was honoured to be sent this to publish on the blog, and hope that through writings such as this, he can continue to enlighten and inform us. He wrote it in response to a piece by Monica Noy on “cognitive dissonance”. …
Five years ago I went to the SCC’s Hidden Treasures Conferences, delighted that our world was getting its act together with regards to research. While I didn’t come away with a sheaf of RCT-level data to inform my patients, I did come away with the impression of a great deal of brain power and critical…
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…
The enigmatic case of cranial osteopathy: Evidence versus clinical practice Pages 1-4 IJOM September 2016 Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, Francesco Cerritelli Well, and doesn’t this sound intriguing? It’s the opening piece in the most recent IJOM and seems to have been prompted by the big French physiotherapists’ study of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field (OCF). The authors…
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…
Time and time again I read something about “cranial osteopathy”, which seems to describe something which is nothing like what I do. It is often assumed that we sit there “head-holding”. I saw a description this week that we claim to”magnetize the blood”. I’m not surprised that there is such confusion, even amongst osteopaths. I…
As someone who couldn’t even work Facebook nine months ago, it came as something of a shock to find I was involved in a Twitter spat with Simon Singh, one of osteopathy’s fiercest critics. What next? A public fracas with Richard Dawkins? However several emails and a long phone call later, feathers were unruffled, a…
I received in my inbox today a message from the lovely Georgina Leelodharry. She was reminding members of iO to make no unfounded claims for our treatments. It appears that the Good Thinking Society is checking up on the accuracy of osteopaths’ claims about treating children. This is not a bad thing and shouldn’t concern…
A study published in Nature on June 1 reveals a stunning discovery that might be the missing link between the brain and the immune system. It’s also highly relevant to the work of osteopaths. While searching for immune cells, researchers in Virginia noticed vessels within the meninges of mice. Further investigation showed that they were…
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