Osteopathy may decrease obstructive apnea in infants: a pilot study is a research study carried out at the university hospital of Brussels and published online in Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care (OMPC) . In this study is stated that osteopathy may have a positive influence on the incidence of obstructive apneas during sleep in infants with a previous history of obstructive apneas as measured by polysomnography.

Co-author of this study is Agnes Engelen, President of CORPP.

Two experimental pilot-studies have reached their final conclusions which are very promising for further study.

• Influence of extra-abdominal and -thoracic pressure on intra-abdominal and -thoracic pressure reported by an intra-cavital pressure measurement method.
• Influence of osteopathic treatment on pain, blink reflex and exteroceptive suppression of the temporal muscle in patients with "frequent episodic tension-type headache".

 

 

 

HaMo-study II: effects of sternotomy on the mobility of the heart under the influence of respiration

The seventh International Conference on Advances in Osteopathic Research (ICAOR) has been organised for 5th - 7th September 2008 at the prestigious site of Bradenton in Florida, the new college of LECOM. A Registration Form can be downloaded as a pdf, completed and then returned to ICAOR 7, Lief House, 120-122 Finchley Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 5HR, UK  or to the address on the Form in the USA.  All delegate subscriptions must be in US dollars.

Gert Roncada and Patrick van Dun, both directors of CORPP, will present their reseach studies at this conference.

The ICAOR 7 Preliminary Program is available at the LECOM web site.

The second Fascia Research Congress, will be held at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 27-30, 2009.

This congress is dedicated to fascia in all its forms and functions. This landmark event has been conceived and organized by a multidisciplinary committee of science researchers and practicing health care professionals whose respective fields share a common focus and interest in the human body’s soft connective tissue matrix.

 

Deze tekst werd opgesteld, op vraag van de medische faculteit van de universiteit van Gent, om studenten geneeskunde te laten kennismaken met o.a. de osteopathie.

(This text is only available in Dutch)

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. She explains how the brain works and she was actually in both brain hemispheres at the same time in separate realities.

Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California