Osteopathy

Yeah, if we could dumb it down, that would be great.

Osteopath, that's why you lost me.

I was like, wow, I need to go to the osteopath.

Well, we'll get on to osteopaths.

I think he's just insane, but we'll go along with it, okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Osteopath, definitely.

Osteopath, question mark.

Can you just tell everyone where they can find you, if they'd like to have a treatment from you, based in Melbourne, and a little minute or two about your style of osteopathy?

Cool.

So I have my business is called In Health Osteopathy.

I work out of a practice in Malvern called Life Force and I work with a great team of osteopaths, acupuncturists and massage therapists there.

And then I also work privately out of a small practice in Warrandyte with some other people we studied with.

So you can find me online through my InHealth Osteopathy website and you can direct email me through there.

And we'll put that in the show notes.

Oh,

I listened to podcasts and read a lot of stuff, but from people more, like, that I trusted that I'd found and read before.

So I, through that, found a, a, what are they called? Osteopat- cranial osteopath for her.

Cranial osteopath, yep.

So I took her for a few sessions of that.

Before I get into what this program was actually like, I want to take a minute and tell you what osteopathy actually is because I think it gets lumped in with a lot of other things, and it really is its own approach.

Here's how I think about it.

Osteopathy is about helping the body do what it already knows how to do.

It's not about forcing anything.

It's about finding the places that aren't moving well and helping them move better so the whole system can work efficiently and in a rhythm with itself again, the way it was designed to.

It's different from massage or deep tissue work, which is really working the muscle tissue itself.

And it's different from chiro, too, which is more focused on the alignment of the actual bones and the spine.

Osteopathy sits in its own lane.

And then, so she wasn't telling her practitioners that she was, she told them she was selling, but she didn't say who she was selling to.

So she's got, you know, half a dozen Austria practitioners working for her and she could have been selling to a pizza shop.

She didn't tell them.

And so I'm buying the goodwill of this business without having the goodwill because it was all, you know, under lock and key.

Off you go.

Osteopathy was developing during their lifetimes.

You know, the ideas were being sort of proposed.

You know, they were being observed, they were debating, they were refining, they were expanding.

We shouldn't read still simply to understand what osteopathy was.

We should read still to help us think about what osteopathy could become.

Because Osteopathy doesn't need to become less osteopathic to become more modern.

Perhaps it just needs to become better at osteopathy.

And this is one of our key topics that we'll be discussing tonight.

It's an area of great interest for him, especially around how osteopaths can assist with these patients and how I guess directly principled osteopathy has a role to play, quite an effective role to play in the management of concussion and symptoms of concussion.

He's got two kids with wife Sharon, who is also an osteopath working at RMIT, and that's all I'm allowed to say about that.

And so, without any more interruption from me, Cliff, mate, welcome back to the podcast.

That was quite funny.

Anyway, look, let's get into the topics that we want to discuss today.

Now, normally I get a little backstory about my guests and, you know, where they're from, what led them to osteopathy, all this kind of stuff.

We've already had that first episode.

evening, everyone.

I'm Robert Cartwright, Institute of Classical Osteopathy.

Welcome to tonight's webinar, where we have Chris Batten, who graduated probably about 1903, I think, wasn't it, Chris? Something like that? About 37 years ago from the Maidstone College of Osteopathy and trained under John Wernham.

and worked with John Wernham for many, many years.

Chris worked at Maidstone and he's lectured internationally pretty much ever since he graduated, I think, which was 37 years ago.

if we're doing classical osteopathy, we're teaching it, we want to do it properly and, you know, under the sort of flag of what Mr. Wernham taught us in terms of this classical osteopathy approach.

So setting forth.

So myth number one, the Institute of Classical Osteopathy is a historical society And of course, you know, we do refer back to sort of old texts because they are, you know, the bedrock of classical osteopathic learning.