Chaitow’s Chat: Blog & News

(Above) Stage pass from gala benefit show to rescue T-T (1989)(Left) Book cover of the new Terry-Thomas biography (Right) J.G. Bennett (1973) the man who brought Subud to the West. I've just started reading the new biography of the life of Terry-Thomas - one of the...

The 2 photographs (from the DVD in Muscle Energy Techniques 3rd edition, 2006, Churchill Livingstone) show osteopathic soft tissue techniques (for release of psoas tightness, and for stretching of quadratus lumborum)......while the old drawing is an illustration of...

If this presidential election was a film-script it would be rejected for containing too many unbelievable elements.The characters are over-the-top, and the background scenario's too complexly fantastic to be true.Consider the major players:Aging semi-articulate,...

These images are a selection taken from Google's Image site - using the key words "Festival of Body, mind & spirit"..... they were among the least odd!Have you been to a "natural living" or ‘health’ show lately?This posting might irritate some readers, and anger...

Like many people I've watched in amazement as Michael Phelps has smashed world record after world record at the Olympics.At the time of writing he's added 7 Gold medals to his haul of 6 collected in Athens 4 years ago..... with one more to come this weekend...

It's August, and for reasons too boring to explain I'm in London instead of Corfu........... although not for much longer I hope!So what did I find to do in London in August?Well for one thing a long-delayed spring cleaning of piles of papers, magazines, journals,...

The line in the graph shows the decreases in a fibromyalgia patient's pain distribution during treatment. The pain distribution is the percentage of 36 body divisions containing pain, indicated by her onher pain drawing. Her pain distribution decreased during...

Way back in the 1980's (1987 to be precise) Optima published a small book - that I had coauthored with my wife Alkmini (who focused her attention on food preparation issues in the book) - entitled "Stone Age Diet". If you're really interested in this I note that...

Hydrotherapy is a major aspect of naturopathic medicine, and the news this week that a Russian spa (Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium, in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region) had unveiled a monument to the enema ("bronze monument of three cherubs...

Informational flyer for the 2009 CongressPhotos (by Robert Schleip) show:Myself with Peter Huijing PhD and Peter Hollander PhD, who are scientific director and administrative directors, respectively, of the 2nd International Fascia Congress.The main auditorium at the...

Images are of the great French microbiologist and rival of Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp; the 'microscope' developed by Rife and a slide of the ‘CD form’ of B. licheniformis which superficially appears to be a fungus, but under the scanning electron microscope is seen to...

Henry Allingham at 112, and the flypast in his honour.First World War veteran, Henry Allingham, was 112 last week, on the 6th of June.The first modern Olympics were hosted by Athens, Puccini's La Bohème premiered in Turin and Queen Victoria became the longest reigning...