Classical Osteopathy Podcast

Marika is a really interesting osteopath, a Swedish national, she initially started her training in the UK but then decided to go back to Sweden to train in Gothenburg. Marika graduated in 1998 and already had a keen interest in classical osteopathy; studied with John Wernham in Maidstone for a further 2 years. She was the vice-president of the Swedish Osteopathic Association and was president of the EFO for 4 years while playing a key role in raising osteopathic education standards across many countries in Europe as chair of the CEN Swedish Technical Committee. During this time she somehow also found time to complete an MSc at Dresden. Marika has also lectured at the Kirksville and is a force to be reckoned with!

Hello, this podcast answers most of the questions we get asked by potential students who are interested in becoming better osteopaths by studying with the Institute of Classical Osteopathy and doing our PGDCO course.

A little while ago I uploaded a podcast that was some thoughts about Still's phrase "find it fix it and leave it alone", this was a short piece of audio Chris Campbell very kindly sent me afterwards and I thought those who enjoyed the first podcast about this would also enjoy this.

This is a fascinating interview with osteopath and naturopath Alex Johnson. Alex graduated from the BSO (now UCO) and went then went to study classical osteopathy at the Maidstone College started by John Wernham. Alex has a passion for nature cure and natural hygiene, which is and always has been part of osteopathy, and we discuss how the "bodies own medicine chest" as AT Still would call it will always do its best with the resources it has available in the environment it is in and how we can use these innate forces to assist patients in overcoming or improving some health problems. This is a long episode and well worth listening to especially as Alex and his family live the life he extolls to his patients.

Hendrik is a Swiss national living and working in Switzerland, he is dedicated to the development of osteopathy, is incredibly knowledgable and inspiring. In this interview we end up discussing how Hendrik, during his osteopathy treatments assists people in overcoming some of the deep seated psychological or emotional problems as well as their other chronic problems, he is a brilliant osteopath and well worth listening to. This was our second take for this interview as we were having sound problems with Zoom which to some degree persisted through this interview so my apologies for any sound issues you hear. We also have some wonderful videos on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY_AW-4bhiw&t=10s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB9xEM1RwVY&t=8s

This episode is an interview with Alice Williams. Alice is the foundation director at ICO and one of her roles, which she is very passionate about, is to take osteopaths who enrol on our courses on the journey of discovery to understand that their view depends upon where they are looking. This allows the osteopath to move from allopathic to osteopathic thinking which is quite a difficult paradigm shift for people as it is the default position we are programmed with at subconscious level. This is the starting place which is critical for helping osteopaths develop their osteopathic thinking. Andrew Taylor Still went through this shift in his thinking, moving from a medical perspective to osteopathic thinking when he discovered osteopathy.

Alice is super bright and interesting to listen to.

This is a review of the classical osteopathic approach to supraspinatus tendinopathy and impingement, the aim is to identify that there can commonly be a postural component causing alteration in scapular mechanics leading to supraspinatus impingement and tendinopathy. Also to illustrate that to improve scapula mechanics, a whole body approach may be needed to improve whole body mechanics.

This podcast covers what John Stedman Denslow DO called the "early years" research whilst he worked with Irvin Korr PhD and discusses why it was so important then and still is now. Some research just doesn't go out of date, this fits that category. This is one of the podcasts that I enjoyed recording the most.

Robert Cartwright discusses the meaning of Andrew Taylor Still's phrase Find it, Fix it and Leave it Alone and the relationship of that phrase to adjusting the abnormal to the normal.