Leaving aside the profound effects of breathing pattern disorders on emotion and general health - individuals with...
The Value of Breathing Retraining for Better Posture, Balance & Less Pain and Dyskinesis
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Leon Chaitow
Fascia workshop, London March 7/8 2015
CPDO Practical weekend Workshop: FASCIA-RELATED PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION: RESEARCH TO PRACTICE Presenter: Leon Chaitow ND...
Remembering the Connection: Respiratory Alkalosis and your Patient’s Symptom Catalogue
It's well over 100 years since Bohr first described Respiratory Alkalosis - and I am constantly amazed at how few...
Adaptation – it saves us, and it kills us
We adapt to life from cradle to grave, and if our perspective is wide enough we can accurately say that illness, degeneration and dysfunction, are all adaptive responses to internal and external stressors. So what are we adapting to?..... to an ever changing...
Evolution from quackery to integration to functional
Brian Inglis who coined the phrase 'fringe medicine' If only words meant what they said. I'm old enough to remember when naturopathic and osteopathic medicine were dubbed quackery, which is not to say that in some quarters they are not still disparaged in this way. In...
Getting past the email deluge…..
Corfu is where I write, revise and edit. I spend most of the year here, with 3 breaks of between 4 and 6 weeks early in the year, again just before Easter, and in the autumn - when I go to the UK (and sometimes further afield) to see patients, teach, and generally to...
Halcyon days
Postings on the blog will be periodic - not daily.I hope to use this venue to share ideas, making it a more spontaneous opportunity to communicate than is possible on my website www.leonchaitow.com, where I have details of my books, interviews, articles etc.If you...
Women’s health, the Pelvic Floor Paradox and a Naturopathic approach: CAM Interview
What’s the Evidence?
Originally published in Massage Today September, 2007, Vol. 07, Issue 09 We live in an age of evidence-based medicine, but what does this mean? What it does not mean - although this is a common misconception - is that everything you do therapeutically has to be based...
Understanding Breathing (Massage & Body Work Journal)
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Glimpses of the Big Picture: Leptins
Originally published in Massage Today June, 2007, Vol. 07, Issue 06 The topic covered in this article is relevant to practitioners of all disciplines, particularly those who are providing health care services to people who suffer from conditions as diverse as chronic...
Postural Influences on Visceral and Somatic Function
Originally published in Massage Today March, 2007, Vol. 07, Issue 03 Examples of how structural and functional features strongly influence each other. We all know that poor posture is damaging to our physical structures, but are we as aware of the wider implications...
What’s Wrong With Naturopathic Physical Medicine?
Background Historically, naturopaths always have employed physical medicine modalities (massage, manipulation, exercise, hydrotherapy). For example, both Lindlahr and Lust employed combinations of physical exercise, massage, osteopathy and chiropractic in their care...
The Pelvic Floor Paradox
Originally published in Massage Today December, 2006, Vol. 06, Issue 12 When I started writing this periodic column, I mentioned that every now and then, a "wow-factor" enters my life; synchronistic events and pieces of information coincide to illuminate what was...
When Are Symptoms Not Symptoms?
Originally published in Massage Today June, 2006, Vol. 06, Issue 06 Have you noticed how buzz words and key phrases are emerging from the powers that be in the increasingly regulated application of health care? Evidence-based medicine is one of these and there's a lot...