CORPP stands for Commission for Osteopathic Research, Practice and Promotion

This society wants to create within Europe an osteopathic movement for the benefit of scientific research within osteopathic medicine and for the benefit of osteopathic practice, with special emphasis on the mutual relationship between research and practice.

New Research

Diagnostic Palpation in Osteopathic Medicine: A Putative Neurocognitive Model of Expertise

Jorge Esteves


This PhD-thesis examines the extent to which the development of expertise in diagnostic palpation in osteopathic medicine is associated with changes in cognitive processing and proposes an original model of expertise in diagnostic palpation which has implications for osteopathic education.   

What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

BBC World Service


In a lab in southern California scientists are curing the previously incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing our understanding of the brain in the process. In mid-November the team at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) announced the results of a small pilot study which suggests that a simple mind trick involving mirrors can help ease the pain of osteoarthritis, a condition that affects one in 10 people.  ... MORE