Very soon after my first course in Osteopathy in the Cranial was fired with enthusiasm to examine newborn babies. Over the next eight years I examined over fifteen hundred babies at a local hospital. All were examined within the first five days of...
The area of the baby's head that leads the way out of the birth canal is the occipital area, the back of the head. It is the area that will take the brunt of obstruction if there is a delay in delivery. False labor can be particularly damaging...
Is it A.D.D., is it A.D.H.D, is it the Executive Syndrome, or is it dyslexia? But does the label solve the problem? Only by looking in the past may we begin to understand the present, and develop a strategy to enhance the future. Birth is one of the...
The term scoliosis means a distortion of the body structure into a curvature. This is usually recognized in the spine but may also be found in the pelvis, and occasionally in the mechanism of the cranial bones. Spinal scoliosis may be structural due...
Seizures may occur at any stage in life from newborn to old age. But the etiology or underlying cause may vary from patient to patient. Rare causes are organic brain diseases. For the child who develops seizures such conditions may be ruled out by...
What is a brain injured child?
Brain injury may be microscopic, or it may be global. It
Manipulative methods as part of medical treatment are known to date back to earliest times. Hippocrates wrote of their value. Throughout medical history manual methods have been used, but almost always with a view to the correction of gross...
One of the greatest pieces of physiological research in the twentieth century was undertaken by William Garner Sutherland D.O. He was one of the early graduates of the original American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri in 1900.
From its small beginnings in the last years of the nineteenth century to the present time there has been a dynamic growth in osteopathy in all its spheres—education, research and practice. In the U.S.A there are in the region of 20,000 fully...
Diagnosis ;Diagnosis of somatic dysfunction (impaired or altered fu