Category: Osteopathy
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Chapter 21 – Motion and life
Movement of the arm, and movements of the joints that allow the arm to move. If I think this way, as an osteopath, I fall into the trap of the mechanical world. I talk about tensegrity and how muscles pull on bones. Lifting the arm becomes a sum of micro-movements. I break the macro-movement into…
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Chapter 19 – Nature as a physician
“There is probably no other branch of human knowledge about which the popular conception is so vague as the science of medicine. In theory people no longer look upon the physician as a man endowed with supernatural insight and power, but in fact they still regard him in that light. They call him to attend…
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Chapitre 8 – Imagination et science
Still était un escroc.Still avait un don. Ou alors Still faisait de l’ostéopathie ? La science procède aussi de l’imaginaire “Ainsi Jacques Monod a bien décrit la façon dont il voyait, dans son espace conscient, une protéine tourner.” “Le mathématicien Alain Connes, lui, va encore plus loin : il a le sentiment que sa discipline lui…
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Chapter 18 – A feeling for the organism
Recently, I came across a book called A Feeling for the Organism, by Evelyn Fox Keller. The book is about the life and work of Barbara McClintock, an American scientist, and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. What I found of utter interest is not her discoveries (I am…
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Chapter 17 – Body-Mind
Reading a text without being aware of our philosophical background can lead to misunderstanding what the author is talking about. In order to explain this, and maybe get people to look at the way they think, I will give a few ideas about what might happen when we read Still with our modern mind. Chapter…
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Chapter 16 – The world as an inert matter
Reading a text without being aware of our philosophical background can lead to misunderstanding what the author is talking about. In order to explain this, and maybe get people to think about the way they think, I will give a few ideas about what might happen when we misread Still. The world as an inert…
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Chapter 15 – The difference between osteopathy and craniosacral therapy – Part 2
Here we go, time to make some friends again.Previously on Jules Rampal’s blog, we talked about Still’s work to build the foundations that could allow us to understand a bit better how different osteopathy is from craniosacral therapy. And I kind of mentioned how Sutherland’s work is not osteopathy anymore. Before I go any further,…
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Temps nécessaire pour acquérir les principes fondamentaux de l’ostéopathie – Journal of Osteopathy Août 1904 – Traduction
Traduction par bibi de l’article Length of time necessary to acquire the foundation principles of osteopathy, écrit par A.T. Still, dans le Journal of Osteopathy d’Août 1904. Cet article est une traduction uniquement, et non l’opinion du traducteur. Il peut-être intéressant de tenir compte du contexte de l’époque lors de la lecture. Temps nécessaire pour…
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Comment l’ostéopathie a été développée, Journal of Osteopathy Août 1904 – Traduction
Traduction par bibi de l’article How osteopathy was evolved, écrit par A.T. Still, dans le Journal of Osteopathy d’Août 1904. Cet article est une traduction uniquement, et non l’opinion du traducteur. Il peut-être intéressant de tenir compte du contexte de l’époque lors de la lecture. Comment l’ostéopathie a été développée. Pendant les premières années de…
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Chapter 14 – The difference between osteopathy and craniosacral therapy – Part 1
This is an article that will probably annoy 90% of people who will read it. Or at least that’s my hope! So I have to warn you, my dear unknown reader, that this is my current view on the matter. It doesn’t mean I am wrong right, and it doesn’t mean I used to think…
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Chapter 10 – Wax on, wax off
Imagine you have to clean your apartment. I’ll tell you what, since I started this article with the word “Imagine”, then let’s imagine you live in a freaking big mansion. Okay, now I can hear people are starting to think that if they live in a mansion, they probably have enough money to pay for…
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Pain mechanisms and osteopathy
Pain mechanisms are a very interesting thing to study in order to change the way we treat our patients. Don’t worry, it won’t change the techniques you’ll use, because they don’t matter. But it might change the way you see things and the way you explain your action. And this is a big deal. How…
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How to be more confident
If you are a normal human being, you might sometimes wonder what you would be able to achieve if you were as confident as Tom Cruise or as a TikTok influencer. Well, to be perfectly honest, I am pretty sure even Tom Cruise finds TikTok influencers utterly (overly?) confident, and even I, a cocky Frenchy,…
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How to suffer less
I suffer at times. We all do, don’t we? Pretending the opposite would just mean that I’m in denial. Not really the point of writing articles here and sharing my thoughts with you, right? Having been lucky enough to live in different places around the world, I’ve met so many different individuals, and I have…
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Knowing nothing
And accepting it