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…
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…),…
OK it’s a long one, so you might want to grab a coffee before you sit down to read it. For the information of the uninitiated, everyone I know pronounces NCOR like N-Core, making it sound like a rap star, or a sciencey-term for a nuclear reactor or particle. I just entered NCOR as a…
Get evidence-based right here right now! A study has just been published, this one in the prestigious JAMA, which shows that exercise prevents low back pain recurring in the short term. This is not a groundbreaking idea, but nice to see it backed up with very convincing solid stats. Prevention of Low Back Pain: A…
What is osteopathy exactly? I still take a deep breath every time someone asks me what osteopaths do. I’ve never been able to formulate a standard answer, because I find osteopathy is hard to explain even to myself. I think I try to make people feel better. Using my hands and my brain. Usually because…
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…
Scottish Doctor, author, speaker, sceptic
A supportive community of writers
by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'
Stigma crushing mental health speaker
Reflections from a PT.
osteofm 