The present petition emerged from the colloquium « Ecomedicines and Public Health" organized in Namur on 17th and 18th October 2008 by the GRAPPE and the "Maison de l'Ecologie".
This colloquium which was attended by many health specialists and practitioners from Belgium and France, concluded with the adoption of a public declaration calling for the elaboration of the petition in question. Its first signatories all participated in the colloquium. 

Read and sign the petition here 
 

Osteopaths request the recognition and the regulation of Osteopathy in Spain. Osteopaths are Primary Care health professionals, independent from others. They request the non-application of the "Orden Cin/2135/2008 de 3 de Julio" related to the specific methodology of Physiotherapy where the word osteopathy is included.

Please give your support !

 

This study was presented by Lisa Hodge at  the Seventh International Conference on Advances in Osteopathic Research
September 5-7 2008, LECOM Bradenton and can be accessed with this pumbmed link (PMID: 17935480).  We included an abstract on our website.

 

Two experimental pilot-studies have reached their final conclusions which are very promising for further study.

• Influence of extra-abdominal and -thoracic pressure on intra-abdominal and -thoracic pressure reported by an intra-cavital pressure measurement method.
• Influence of osteopathic treatment on pain, blink reflex and exteroceptive suppression of the temporal muscle in patients with "frequent episodic tension-type headache".

The second Fascia Research Congress, will be held at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 27-30, 2009.

This congress is dedicated to fascia in all its forms and functions. This landmark event has been conceived and organized by a multidisciplinary committee of science researchers and practicing health care professionals whose respective fields share a common focus and interest in the human body’s soft connective tissue matrix.

Kinetic Control and the MACP would like to invite you to join us in Edinburgh, UK for the 3rd International Conference on Movement Dysfunction. We welcome delegates from all continents - physiotherapists, manual therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, exercise physiologists, sports scientists, sports physicians, and other health professionals involved in the assessment, management, rehabilitation and research of neuro-musculoskeletal dysfunction.

 

We would like to invite you to join us for the 7th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain, to be held in November 2010 in Los Angeles, U.S.A. This program is held every three years. All the disciplines involved in the treatment and research of musculoskeletal disorders around the globe come together in a stimulating meeting related to musculoskeletal disorders.

 

Deze tekst werd opgesteld, op vraag van de medische faculteit van de universiteit van Gent, om studenten geneeskunde te laten kennismaken met o.a. de osteopathie.

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