Total Body Adjustment

Total Body Adjustment

Jane battled through some Glaswegian snow recently to attend a course on General Osteopathic Technique, otherwise known as Total Body Adjustment. It is a technique, or routine, that she learnt during her time at the ESO, and still uses in practice today. Given it has...
Happy 150th Birthday to Osteopathy!

Happy 150th Birthday to Osteopathy!

Osteopathy was founded by an American physician called Andrew Taylor Still (1828 – 1917) on 22  June 1874. Happy 150th birthday Osteopathy!  Still lived in Kansas and two experiences led him to seek a better means of healthcare. First, he was a frontline doctor...
Spring is a time when we welcome new life

Spring is a time when we welcome new life

Crocuses turn our gardens into jewelled carpets, daffodil buds swell, the birds are all in their breeding finery and lambs start appearing in the fields. Do you have a new life on the way? Pregnancy is a time of enormous change in a short period of time. It really is...
How to improve your sleep

How to improve your sleep

Did you know that your brain is more active when you’re asleep than when you’re awake? The brain and the blood vessels that supply it work together at night to do maintenance tasks and to actively make sense of what has happened to us in the day. It’s how we learn,...
Patient Reported Outcome Measures or PROMS

Patient Reported Outcome Measures or PROMS

Proms – you probably haven’t heard of them, until a few years ago, I hadn’t heard of them either. It stands for Patient Reported Outcome Measures or PROM. They are a way of collecting information from patients about how they feel after treatment. PROM are tools...
The causes of Long COVID symptoms

The causes of Long COVID symptoms

About 10% of Covid-19 sufferers continue to have symptoms three months or more after the initial disease. But what are the causes of Long Covid symptoms? Scientists are scratching their heads over who is at risk of Long Covid and why, what is going on in the...