Leon Chaitow
Dr Mercola interviews Dr Chaitow about Candida
If you're not optimally healthy, could candida be at fault? In this interview, British osteopath and naturopath, Dr. Leon Chaitow, author of "Candida Albicans: Natural Remedies for Yeast Infection," discusses its dangers — and more importantly, how to address this...
The Importance of Dosage in Manual Therapy
Originally published in Massage Today. Research is slowly beginning to reveal the importance of optimal dosage in manual and movement therapies and it may surprise you (as it did me) to learn that very small variations in applied load (compression, stretch, etc.) can...
Positional Release Techniques: What are the Mechanisms?
Originally published in Massage Today, January, 2016, Vol. 16, Issue 01 At its simplest, positional release techniques as used in manual therapy settings, involve the unloading of tissues, placing them into less-stressed, "ease" positions. In such a comfort state, a...
We Have Much to Learn from Current Fascia Research
Originally published in Massage Today, July, 2015, Vol. 15, Issue 07 Fascia is fashionable. Over the past few years, you may have noticed the increase in conferences, congresses, symposia, workshops, online courses, books and articles that contain the word fascia in...
The osteopath, the chiropractor(s), Disneyland – and 32 years of friendship – a sound track for the rhythm of life
Trying to decide on a title for this blog has been difficult. Hopefully when all is revealed the somewhat disjointed one chosen will seem appropriate? I suppose we should start at the beginning..... 1983.....Alkmini, Sasha (age 5) and I had made the move from Sussex...
THE MMR Vaccine saga – 2014/2015 updates from Huffington Post …. and Presidential hopefuls
18th Century Gilray vaccination cartoon The saga that is the debate around 'can MMR vaccination cause autism' rages on..... New information was revealed late in 2014 in a Huffington Post Blog: Merck Has Some Explaining To Do Over Its MMR Vaccine Claims...
The Value of Breathing Retraining for Better Posture, Balance & Less Pain and Dyskinesis
Leaving aside the profound effects of breathing pattern disorders on emotion and general health - individuals with poor posture (Lewit 1980), scapular dyskinesis (Clifton-Smith 2011), low back pain (Roussel et al 2007), neck pain (Kapreli et al 2009) and TMJ pain...
Fascia workshop, London March 7/8 2015
CPDO Practical weekend Workshop: FASCIA-RELATED PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION: RESEARCH TO PRACTICE Presenter: Leon Chaitow ND DO Date: March 7/8 CIty: London Venue: Whittington Education Centre, Whittington Hospital, Gordon Close, (off Highgate Hill) London N19...
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 practitioners/therapists - of all professions - are aware of the clinical importance of this inevitable side-effect of the widespread habit of...
Rediscovering better posture – a foot-related personal saga
I have always been slightly hypermobile - a genetic 'double-jointed' state. However this not been a problem - except in relation to my feet - where sagging arches (hyperpronation) periodically made themselves felt - both locally and at a distance! Approximately 15...
What happens when fascia stops sliding….?
What is the role of loose connective tissue in chronic neck pain? An article published in 2014 offers food for thought: Ultrasonography in myofascial neck pain: randomized clinical trial for diagnosis and follow-up. Antonio Stecco et al Surg. Radiol. Anat. 36:243-253...
CORFU REFLECTIONS
Corfu: January 2015: Reflections Note: This post is only peripherally related to manual therapy, osteopathy etc....but contains (via links to older posts) stories of mystery, nostalgia, intrigue and magic Reflecting on yesterday's post on 'hopping in the park' to...