I’ve been aware of CORE of Clapton for some time now. I knew it was something to do with a pair of osteopaths called Danny and Duncan, who were interested in research; I knew they wanted to provide low-cost treatment for persistent pain in the borough of Hackney; and I had also gleaned they were…
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…
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…
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…
Edited and revised September 2016 One talk caught my eye in the COPA brochure last year. Compared to the gimmicks and hard sell of some of the technologies on exhibit, this sounded like an old-fashioned, modest, and serious research project. It was presented by a nurse from a Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre in Bedford called…
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…
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…
………..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…
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