Humanitarian osteopathy

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Comment by Bruno Moreira Campos on October 19, 2008 at 12:38pm

That's a great experience. Congratulations. I'll check the site. Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Bruno Moreira Campos on October 19, 2008 at 12:41pm

What kind of work did you do? Is it possible for me to apply? How do i do it? Thanks

Comment by Clement Rhein on October 19, 2008 at 8:29pm

Here's the site:
http://www.divinityfoundation.com/

Nav is a really great and relaxed (in a good way) person. E-mail here to apply: navmatharu@divinityfoundation.com She really will look after you well. in fact, it nearly felt like a Thomson's holiday or something ;-)
You can apply not problems - There will always be too many patients to see. We treated 500 on our last day!

Do you mean what kind of osteopathic work?
Loads of systemic presentations, mostly chest problems/infections. There was ulcers, colds, digestive disorders, hernias, and some musculoskeletal presentations (a few LBP here and there, just to make us felt a bit more at home :-)). But how you treat is really up to you - we all treated in a different way so...

Then, there was also the pharmaceutical side of things. We could give out antibiotics, paracetamol, deworming, multivitamins, eye drops, antimalarial drugs, cortisone gel and a few more. I found having antibiotic very helpful in occasional cases where you might be thinking, "umm, lets just them that so that they don't die in a couple of days" :-). Antimalarial also. And mostly, the deworming, coz that's everywhere!!!

The people are so grateful of our work, they might not be seen ever again my a therapist, and I do think that in just one treatment we can make loads of changes. Having said that, some colleagues had a hint of feel helpless - so much systemic stuff. But for me, that's my favorite bit in osteopathy!

Best of luck pal! You'll love it

Comment by Bruno Moreira Campos on October 20, 2008 at 1:07pm

Thanks a lot Clement. I'll let you know.

Cheers

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