Illustrating our principles

Dear All,

Bit of a broad request; but can anyone give me a list or any links to any papers, articles or research, past or present, which would support or justify or illustrate any of the 4 underlying principles of osteopathy. Anything at all that you have read where you have thought ~ "well yeah that's obvious because of....body-unit/structure-function/self-heal/rule-artery".

I have been asked to put together a reading list for a review of basic principles. I have to confess I loathe & detest reading papers in general & the principles so obviously stemming from a holistic view of life as to require no further justification. Most research papers i do read just drive me insane as they are asking the wrong questions to start with; ie "something-has-gone-wrong-what-can-we-blame-&-therefore-fix", as opposed to "how-is-this-unique-process-right-appropriate-etc etc"

As George Bernard Shaw put it ~ "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

That said, it would be interesting to put together a set of papers and articles which ideally illustrate our view. Any really beautiful examples which highlight the differences between the society average perspective and that of the osteopathic approach would be great.
The subject matter is fairly irrelevant, though applicability to practice helps maintain reader interest.

Yours hopefully

Alice

Tags: evidence, osteopathic principles, research

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Permalink Reply by Hume O'Rous on June 26, 2011 at 9:36am

Alice,

Having looked over some of the texts my wife's been using on her equine osteopathy course with Stuart McGregor, you will get lots of useful material from them.

When you look at osteopathy from an alternative subject to human application, I get a fresh perspective. Hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Quatermass on July 2, 2011 at 7:37am

Alice, isn't it amazing!

The collected answers to your request to a group of interested experts for papers illustrating the principles by which they say they work is pretty eloquent.

But have a look at these, if you haven't already, they may be helpful.

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Rogers, 2005, 725 KB
Korr, 1987, 776 KB

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Permalink Reply by jules hammond on July 6, 2011 at 4:50pm

Hi Alice

this paper might help. The critical review itself is fairly inconclusive, but the papers it references might be of use to you.

Christensen, S., Hartvigsen, J., 2008. Spinal Curves and Health: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiological Literature Dealing with Associations Between Saggital Spinal Curves and Health. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Theraputics 31 (9), 690-714