Back pain is a common problem in general practice, and is of enormous economic importance. A recent report urges general practitioners (GPs) to refer early for manual therapies, such as osteopathy. The key concept to understanding osteopathic principles is somatic dysfunction. This is a disorder of function, rather than pathology, of the musculoskeletal and related systems. Its characteristic f...

1 Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2 Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 Department of Osteopathy, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand 4 School of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 5 Centre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand...

BACKGROUND The availability of Internet-based continuing medical education is rapidly increasing, but little is known about recruitment of physicians to these interventions. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of physician participation in an Internet intervention designed to increase screening of young women at risk for chlamydiosis. METHODS Eligibility was based ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the attitudes of undergraduate chiropractic and osteopathic students at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 1992 on the education they are receiving and on the effectiveness of chiropractic and osteopathic care. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive survey. PARTICIPANTS Undergraduate chiropractic and osteopathic students enrolled at RMIT School of Chiropractic...

purpose our study aims to investigate the effectiveness of other treatment methods for burn related scarring and to determine the possibility of their routine administration in similar clinical settings. methods through a prospective study, 66 patients were enrolled to receive either the conventional pressure garment therapy (pgt) and silicone (control group) or exercise and physiotherapy (case...

The article outlines changes of locomotor system in patients with diabetes mellitus. Classification of individual diseases is based on the requirements of clinical practice mainly. The following diseases are described here: diabetic cheiroarthropathy, shoulder impingement syndrome, Charcots joint, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, diabetic osteopathy and other pathologies associated wit...

Background Chronic non-infectious osteitis (CNO), also known as Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis, is a noninfectious inflammatory osteopathy predominantly affecting children and adolescents. Diagnosis is often difficult as initial symptoms and clinical course can vary widely. CNO can result in significant morbidity. Treatment regimes are varied but bisphosphonate therapy with pamidron...

BACKGROUND Clinical reasoning (CR) is a core capability for health practitioners. Assessing CR requires a suite of tools to encompass a wide scope of contexts and cognitive abilities. The aim of this project was to develop an oral examination and grading rubric for the assessment of CR in osteopathy, trial it with senior students in three accredited university programs in Australia and New Zeal...

Acne keloidalis is a chronic inflammatory process that involves hair follicles of the nape of the neck and leads to hypertrophic scarring. In all references, it is noticed that this process occurs only in males after puberty and is especially seen in the black race. In this case, we report a 31-year-old white woman who had hypertrophic papules in the nape of her neck since 10 years ago and in p...