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…
Quiet dissent: The attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of UK osteopaths who reject low back pain guidance – A qualitative study Joanna Figg-Latham and Devan Rajendran, (ESO), in Manual Therapy. Not yet in press but available online October 2016, free to osteopaths via the GOsC website Quiet dissent: a lovely phrase to start off a research…
I met up with an old friend from university recently. He’s called Richard for the purposes of this blog. I hadn’t seen him for a few years. He told me his girlfriend had had bladder cancer. I know this blog is largely read by clinicians who love a bit of case history, so here follows…
A one day symposium, at St George’s, University of London, 28 September 2016. A collaboration between the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, and the CauseHealth Project. OK. Take a deep breath. I just did. Because on opening my notebook to begin trying to make sense of this amazing one-day Symposium in London, I have…
First things first. It had been a lively time in politics since the previous meeting, and I approached Tower Bridge Road prepared for anything. But despite the toppling of leaders, the discombobulation of the political landscape, the intrigue, the treachery, the kitten heels, the venomous, hilarious twitterfest, the sheer unstoppable, unadulterated drama on the news…
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…
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…
People read what you write Prone to crumbling under pressure, and reduced to stammering out nervous gibberish when put on the spot, I am used to not being listened to, or at least not taken very seriously. However in the privacy of my own home, with only the hum of the fridge freezer and…
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