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When was cranial osteopathy brought over to the UK?
I'm doing a talk on cranial osteopathy and am interested to know if anyone knows which year it was brought over to the uk?
I have heard Colin Dove talking about when he first went over to the States and then started introducing the ideas to the BSO, I think he was principle there at the time, but I can't remember when he said this was.
Any help would be great!
Tags: colin dove, cranial, history, ivm, sutherland
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Permalink Reply by Philosteopher on -
Funnily enough, I was talking to Ernest Keeling about this earlier today. He said that some of the SCTF faculty came over in 1973 for a workshop but the first full basic cranial course in the UK was held when they came over in 1974.
Hope that helps.
Ben
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Permalink Reply by Roger Kingston on -
Ask Sue Turner or Stuart Korth - they'd know.
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Permalink Reply by Theodore Jordan on -
I would concur. I remember there was group of a half-dozen-or-so osteopaths, including Rollin Becker and, I think, Viola Frymann, who gave courses in the UK and France around that time. The Still National Osteopathic Museum http://www.atsu.edu/museum/ has photographs of that trip (those trips?) in the archives, and probably more information. Sutherland was long gone by then, and I'm not sure if Magoun went (I don't remember seeing him in the pics, although my memory is not what it used to be).
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Permalink Reply by Christian Fossum on -
Hi Lauren,
In 1950, the then eminent BSO faculty member Clem Middleton wrote an article on cranial osteopathy in the journal Osteopathic Quarterly. Also, later in the 1950s, Helen Emily Jackson, who trained in Kirksville with her husband Philip Jackson, returned to the UK and she gave talks on cranial osteopathy at the Institute of Applied Osteopathic Technique in Maidstone in 1957. Helen Emily Jackson trained with Beryl Arbuckle, D.O. of Philadelphia, who was an early student of Sutherland, but left his teaching group for various reasons. Also, in the 1960s, the trio of Drs. Harold Magoun Sr., Thomas Schooley and Viola Fryman came to the UK to teach only to find lukewarm interest, so their future teaching activities was moved to Paris, France in 1965. Colin Dove went to his first SCTF course in 1973 (and the rest is history). Cranial, despite being practiced by some, didn't gain any momentum in the UK until the very late 1970s or early 1980s, with courses taking place at both the BSO in London and the ESO in Maidstone.
And though not directly related to the practice of cranial ad modum Sutherland, C. Paul Snyder, D.O. from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine came to the UK in the 1920s and taught "finger surgery" with the UK based osteopath Wilfred Streeter.
Charlotte Weaver, another Kirksville trained DO, developed some ideas and techniques in the cranial sphere. Her approach has been largely unrecognized (as Anne Wales put it, "we (her and the Lippincott's tried to understand her written work in our study group but gave up") until more recent years when Margaret Sorrell as brought it back and published a book on it. However, Dr. Weaver lectured on her ideas and concepts to the British Osteopathic Association in 1934.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Christian
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Permalink Reply by Richard Holding on
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Hi
I think that the first time Dr Rollin Becker came over was in 1975 with Dr John Harakel. They gave a fantastic course helped by Colin Dove, Stuart Korth, Martin Pascoe and Jaque Duval who i think had all originally gone over the the US to do their first course in 1973. It changed my life and still listen to some of their lectures for inspiration. Viola, Magoun, Fulford and of course Ann Wales all came over to help us in those early days while we developed a UK faculty.
The Sutherland Society was then started and we had meetings every 6 weeks initially to support each other either at Stuart Korth's in Sussex or mine in Herefordshire.
Best wishes
Richard
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Permalink Reply by lauren on -
Thanks for all this information, it is really useful!
Richard, is there any where you know of that you can still get hold of these lectures? I imagine they would be hugely inspirational and brilliant to listen to.
Thanks
Lauren
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Permalink Reply by NeilM on -
I was a student at the BSO at the time (1973 to 1977) but I don't remember the exact year Colin went to USA though I do remember the seminal conference in 1975 in UK (though as an undergrad I was unable to attend!)
He certainly returned with great enthusiasm, and started the basics of 'Cranial' palpation to 3rd and 4th year students shortly afterwards. There was already significant interest in Cranial Osteopathy amongst some of our tutors- Stuart Korth, Joyce Vetterlein, Bob Burge come to mind and certainly in 1976 and 1977 there was a cranially based clinic day at the BSO, even if unofficial.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Kern on -
Hi Lauren,
Another strand not yet mentioned is the work of Dennis Brookes D.O. He learned from some of the early cranial osteopaths in the US and started study groups in the UK in the early-mid 1960's. Out of these study groups, Joe Goodman D.O., N.D. and William Wright D.O., N.D. founded the Cranial Osteopathic Association in 1965. They ran basic post-graduate courses in cranial work and also started a register of members. I had the privilege of teaching with Joe on some of these courses in the 1980's. This group later became known as the International Cranial Association. I hope this adds another piece to the jigsaw.
Warmly,
Michael.
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