Chaitow’s Chat: Blog & News

You may already have a good awareness of the health implications of Vitamin D. If so, hopefully there will be a few additional snippets in this posting to add to your knowledge base. If, however, Vitamin D has slipped off your radar, this posting will offer you a...

I'm currently away from home-base of Corfu, traveling and teaching.This limits the time I have to focus on blog-posting .....so I thought to make this particular post simple....and hopefully interesting?1/ The top 25 downloads from ScienceDirect - of JBMT articles,...

The symptoms of over-breathing are summarised on the outline of the human body on the left (remembering that all these symptoms can result from other causes, but they can ALL be caused or made worse by how we breathe) The sequence of events that lead to or take part...

Picture above is Vibram FiveFingers shoe The barefoot runner on the left is NOT ME During my early teenage years - in the 1940's - I lived in Johannesburg. One of my recollections is of migrant African goldmine workers, returning to their homes many miles away for...

This posting has nothing whatever to do with manual therapy, health issues or anything approximating these.It is purely and simply an excuse to publish a couple of photographs, taken an hour or two ago, of a blue moon, as seen from the lounge window of our Corfu Town...

The 3rd edition of Palpation and Skills:Assessment Through Touch, (ISBN 9780443069352) has just (December 2009) been published by Elsevier (as has the 3rd edition of Fibromyalgia Syndrome ISBN 9780443069369).Both books come with DVD-ROMs that contain dozens of...

Left: Tamar Rogoff doing “body work” with GreggRight: Gregg Mozgala rehearsingThis heart-warming story contains a number of fascinating elements. Firstly the facts:In early 2008, a young actor with cerebral palsy, Gregg Mozgala, was appearing as Romeo in a production...

Clockwise from the left (double click on picture to enlarge):1/The panel I chaired at the Amsterdam fascia conference2/ A workshop demonstration of fascial manipulation in Amsterdam3/Sasha with her Professors and fellow graduates from Exeter University, on terrace...

Hermes - by Sasha Chaitow (2009) Kai Galen Mitchell - grandson of the developer of MET - demonstrating longus colli technique September already! ....the summer slipped away so quickly and I am using this posting to reflect on the high points - as well as some specific...

Gerald Pollack in his lab (see below for more on this amazing researcher) This posting leans heavily on a number of articles written over the past few years, for the online magazines NaturopathyDigest, and its' sister publication MassageToday. Articles include: The...

Strange happenings in California.In his battle with a budget deficit, and his pledge to create 'smaller government' 'The Governator' has abolished the naturopathic licensing board (Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine) of the state, and has virtually merged this, under the...