CPDO Practical weekend Workshop: FASCIA-RELATED PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION: RESEARCH TO PRACTICE Presenter: Leon Chaitow ND...
Fascia workshop, London March 7/8 2015
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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...
Can we describe what we do? CONTINUED
In 2013 I wrote an editorial for JBMT which I edit on the topic of the 'dosage' of applied manual therapies -...
Fascia – The New Frontier In Bodywork
I’ve been traveling, teaching and reading (and writing) – a lot lately – hence the lack of blog posts. It’s about the reading and writing bits that I want to offer some thoughts in this posting – as it seems to me that there has been a definite shift in terms of new...
Is there more to osteopathy than muscle and joint dysfunction – the PAD evidence?
My previous posting about the possible value of chiropractic in treatment of childhood health problems, such as colic and earache, highlights an ongoing debate in my own profession - osteopathy.This is less of an issue in the USA where osteopathic physicians operate...
What’s the truth about chiropractic for infants?
This post is the first for over a month, during which time I've been on the move in the UK, USA and Canada, teaching, seeing patients, and trying hard to remain focused, as the prospect of 3.5 months in Corfu (which I reached last week) loomed - just ahead - like a...
Osteopathic And Naturopathic Approaches To Influenza: Part 2
This post builds on information that you will find on my other post “Chaitow’s Chat”, that – in Part 1 of this post – gives background information on osteopathic treatment of infected patients, during the great Flu Pandemic of 1918. In this post I will outline some of...
Osteopathic and naturopathic approaches to Influenza: Part 1
NOTE: Part 2 of this posting can be found by going to this linkhttp://massagemag.com/massage-blog/bodywork-blog/A reality check this morning (Sunday Times, London) put into perspective the questionable severity of the impending pandemic: In the past week around 17...
The nonsense of "evidence based medicine": Meet PieMan
Its the 1st of May, and today in Corfu it's been intermittently blustery and baking.Alkmini busied herself making a traditional wreath, constructed from leaves and flowers, gathered as we wandered through the spring abundence of our garden and orchard.Then it was back...
Introducing a new (to me) Italian approach: Fascial Manipulation ®
One of the more rewarding aspects of editing The Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies has been the opportunity it has given to meet new concepts early on.Back in 1995 Elsevier first agreed to my suggestion to publish this journal - which had (and still has) as its...
Might Trigger Points Sometimes Be Useful?
If a fire alarm goes off should we listen to its’ warning sound and get out of the building? Or should we find a large hammer and silence it because the noise is a real nuisance? I think you know the answer to that hypothetical question, and so the short answer to the...
Is osteopathy (in the UK) losing its’ soul?
ABOVE: Two rib raising techniquesLEFT: Thoracic osteopathic lymphatic pump - hand positionWhen I trained as an osteopath at what is now the British College of Osteopathic MedicineWe were also taught methods and techniques that could be applied in treatment of common...
Let’s Think Zink
I have just been writing a reply to a query, raised on a UK based web-forum for osteopaths, on the topic of the extremely useful, but little known, Zink test – and in doing so it gave me a thought that discussion of this (the test, not the forum!) would be a useful...
Thoughts On The Obesity Epidemic
I returned to Greece (where I spend half the year) yesterday, in a state of some exhaustion after a really busy time teaching in the UK and Europe. On Saturday I lectured for 90 minutes at a one day symposium held at the University of Westminster, London, on the topic...
Thoughts on the physical aspects of emotion
I have been reflecting on the influences of the physical structures of the body, on emotion - i.e. body-mind or somato-psychic connections.The on-line dictionary, mondofacto, defines this as follows:"Relating to the body-mind relationship; the study of the effects of...