If you fancy a trip to the big smoke, and a bit of lively intellectual stimulation, all tax-deductible and CPD-claimable, you could do worse than look out for one of the events run by Le Pub Scientifique. (Tim and Stephanie Beams of NOI group fame are behind it). I went to one of their 2-hour…
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”. …
Introduction This is an edited version of one of 3 articles which you can find on Jo’s website. It was originally published in Sutherland Cranial Magazine. Jo spoke most inspiringly at last weekend’s Sutherland Cranial College conference, and I hope that more of her recent work is soon to be given a wider audience. This…
I’ve been hearing the phrase “magical thinking” for a few years now, ever since I began to take an interest in what skeptics were saying about alternative medicine. It’s generally a derogatory term, the ‘magical’ bit seeming to be the antithesis of sensible science, which uses “critical” thinking.(1) And then just recently, I…
While I have been gaily writing blogs on any passing topic that piques my interest, I am all too well aware that I can only do this because I stand on the shoulders of all those osteopaths (and other manual therapists) who spend considerable time and intellectual effort doing the sterling groundwork necessary to create…
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…
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