In 1990 I compiled a book of self-treatment approaches deriving from osteopathy...and with very little...
How “Osteopathic Self-Treatment” became “Maintaining Body-Balance, Flexibility and Stability”
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Chaitow’s Chat: Blog & News
The scandalous tale of a society osteopath, political intrigue in the ’60s, and now a new musical by Andrew Lloyd-Webber
THE SCANDAL BREAKS KEELER BY WARD CHRISTINE KEELERWARD I had been in...
Mike Reinold’s summary of the “Breathing Pattern Disorder” workshop in Boston (24 April 2013)
Mike Reinold has one of the best (the very best) physical/manual therapy related educational blogs, anywhere. Mike...
Bodywork high
Fourth Ventricular compression as used in cranial osteopathy - mentioned in the text below Recent research has offered new insights into some of the changes that occur biochemically when we receive any form of manual therapy - whether this involves being pressed,...
Friendly bugs (probiotics) are not dangerous!
I noticed a headline the other day: 'Probiotics can kill you', that I just could not believe..... and that's just as well because it turns out that it was distorted and inaccurate.The background is as follows:Two hundred and ninety-six patients with acute pancreatitis...
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...
Health benefits of tea and wine
These brief reports (selected from many others filed for possible future use in a book on the subject!) suggest that tea and wine are potentially powerful health enhancers! My thanks to Simon Martin for helping me collect these. Note: Some of these reports are taken...