Recommended Texts: Bridging the Gap in Health Care 1 – The Basics of Wholistic Assessment (BTG1), and/or Wholistic Integrated Assessment, a Teacher-Student Guide (WIA – 12 DVD set and manual) Note: This is now available as a full online course – 16 hours of video material and the book included (click here to go to site) This…
Category Archives: Osteopathy
In order to resolve any health issue there are two relationships of importance to consider (1,2); The relationship between the tissues/anatomy/pathology causing symptoms and the symptoms themselves The relationship (issues) between everything else going on in a person’s life (I.e. ‘What else’ is going on behind the scenes) and the tissues/anatomy/pathology causing the symptoms. The…
Note: This version is a longer more complete version of a recent article titled “holism in Osteopathic treatment” which appeared in “Osteo life; Osteopathy Australia Magazine; winter edition 2017, p28.” I have included this version here because it offers some practical examples of implementing holistic principles in practice which i feel would be of benefit,…
Why Enrol in Pauls Workshops? Introduction: In Education there are two key elements required for integrated learning; 1) Learning the various categories of Knowledge (facts) 2) Learning how to integrate all the knowledge (facts) with each other; to make sence of it all in relation to what is actually happening within the whole person (Practically…
INTRODUCTION: My Process Summarised Initial consultation This includes a full history and an examination of both outer physical posture and movements as well as a cranio-sacral assessment of the inner health, vitality, rhythms and movements of the whole person. The more anatomy of the whole person we include, the more likely it is to…
SELF-HELP TIPS ON RECORDING FINDINGS FROM HOLISTIC POSTURE ASSESSMENT: Introduction: The following example of how to better record findings is an attempt to correct an Issue I have noticed in the past observing students in Osteopathic teaching clinics. I noticed that many of the students did not use the posture diagrams to their full potential…
General (Holistic) Assessment – Why is this so important? This is important to carry out on every client in order to uncover the primary area of dysfunction that is most affecting recovery of the whole person with any injury. The primary area can either: cause, predispose, maintain or contribute to the symptom picture in some…
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HOLISM IN HEALTH CARE – WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Introduction Holism can mean different things to different people, depending on past experience, perception, belief, and education. Assessing and treating holistically seems such a common sense idea – “to treat the whole person” and the concept of holism appears to be becoming increasingly popular with many…
Headaches and Osteopathy Introduction: According to the International-Headache-Society (2014; classification section), there are many types of headaches, the most common of which include migraine, cluster and tension headaches: – Headaches can be associated with head trauma (or any trauma), vascular problems, infection, substance use and their withdrawal, non-vascular intracranial disorders (e.g. a tumour), disorders of…
Infants, children and teenagers generally have plenty of energy and enthusiasm for life, bouncing back from colds, flues, accidents and other life stresses, usually quite well provided their inner health is well, their posture is balanced and habit patterns and technique with other life and sporting activity are good. However there are many things in…