October 2013 - Osteopathy history group
The group of osteopaths were remembering old times. I thought i was going to learn something useful, but it was not the case. It seems everybody dwells on the old times and considers the presence as worse as it used to be. I think it is happening all the time that ppl think of past as being better for some reason.
16.10.2012 Hypermobility lecture
St John's and St Elizabeth's hospital organised today a seminar on hyper mobility. As I have seen in clinic quite a lot of patients with this problem, I was interested to find out more about the management of the patients. The seminar covered systematic health issues the patients with benign hyper mobility syndrome present with I was not aware at all (anxiety, depression, chronic pain, prolapses of uterus and rectum, skin issues, increased incidence of aneurysms, fatigue, low blood pressure, wide spread pain, mitral valve prolapses..). The seminar was aimed at the physiotherapists and the musculoskeletal professions generally. Its purpose was to inform about how common the BHMS is and the role of practitioners in managing of the patients. It was stressed that patients with BHMS need to exercise - mainly swimming was recommended. Also a good help can provide occupational therapy and use of splints where necessary. I left the talk feeling informed and feeling confident to talk about hyper mobility to my patients, colleagues or tutors.
13.11.2012 Dave Tiberio in Pure sports medicine Kensington - Knee integration vs isolation
It was good to see a legend Dave presenting his ideas about the functional approach to treatment. However I was expecting to learn something new about the knee joint and what I ended up listening to where the ideas originating from Gary Gray I have been exposed to for a while now (like 2 years). However it was a good recap of all I have heard about the functional approach so far but the point of the lecture was the same as always: get 10 thousand bucks and come to america to study GIFT course at Gary Gray's institute. Now you know that the anatomy you are learning is in a sense useless crap so do something about it....
However there was a very good point said during the lecture: Research is good but what is the problem is the interpretation of the research findings. Dave talked about the ways knees used to be rehabilitated in isolation and the person could never function in a way they did before the injury as no one looked at those knees as a part of whole body unit. He also talked about the way students obey to their tutors and do what they are taught but it does not work anymore and dead anatomy has proved itself not being everything one has to know. It is important to understand how the body functions. Another point he made that opened my eyes was a statement: No scientist in the whole world knows how the human body works exactly. We might comprehend like 10% of the human body.... Wow. that was disappointing in a way but it also highlighting to me that life (even the professional one) is a journey on which we learn and discover some certain facts. FACT.
However there was a very good point said during the lecture: Research is good but what is the problem is the interpretation of the research findings. Dave talked about the ways knees used to be rehabilitated in isolation and the person could never function in a way they did before the injury as no one looked at those knees as a part of whole body unit. He also talked about the way students obey to their tutors and do what they are taught but it does not work anymore and dead anatomy has proved itself not being everything one has to know. It is important to understand how the body functions. Another point he made that opened my eyes was a statement: No scientist in the whole world knows how the human body works exactly. We might comprehend like 10% of the human body.... Wow. that was disappointing in a way but it also highlighting to me that life (even the professional one) is a journey on which we learn and discover some certain facts. FACT.
17.12.2012 Matthew Wallden - C.H.E.K. - Primal lifestyle - introduction
Matt is an osteopath and also qualified in Paul CHEK institute. He works in the Bowskill clinic on 4 Duke street, just off the Oxford street in central London. His talk was interesting, explaining how in a very short time period humans done on themselves so many 'experiments' in a way they exposed themselves to the unnatural diet, unnatural exposure to the light in the night, wearing shoes etc etc. All these things are causing lots of mental and physical health problems and he suggests that the return to the natural lifestyle (primal lifestyle) should be the way we advice to our patients how to live their lives. He talked about the below topics:
- why the deep longitudinal system may be defunct.- why breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day afterall... (high levels of the cortisol in the morning set us up for some activity. a primal humans would not store food in the cave as it would be sniffed up by dangerous animals and thus human lives would be in danger, so the primal human would in the morning with lots of cortisol go out to catch and kill the mammoth. Matt suggested that perhaps we should behave in the same way, we perhaps do not need breakfast. morning is an ideal time to exercise and then the first meal of the day should perhaps be lunch).
- how endurance exercise may not be the villain its made out to be (Matt suggested that the primal human would exercise in a different way as we are told generally. He believes that there are three different levels of speed the primal human would exercise at - walking, jogging and occasional sprint - the same way as if we would imagine hunting the mammoth.)
- Understand how higher reflexive factors can be causative in most injuries - and simple screening tools to identify them (hearing problems, eye problems or TMJ problem can cause the rotation or side shift of the atlas and this would lead into the postural changes that would cause the whole body be in imbalance that would lead sooner or later to the injury).
- Learn which are the most proprioceptive muscles in the entire animal kingdom & 9 reflexes that can make them malfunction (the most proprioceptive muscles are suboccipitals. thus Matt hardly every manipulates the CSp as the alteration of the proprioception in the suboccipitals could lead to lots of problems. Matt also talked about some commonly seen patterns. for some reason in a person sprains their ankle, it will typically cause the switching off of the gluteus medius muscle on the ipsilateral side).
- Discover 6 key examples of sports injuries that may not be what they first appear.
- A top level view of the recommendations for transition from shod to minimalist footwear...
i really liked a bit in which he explained about the evolution of the humans. the most primitive movement developed was circumferencial movement (like worms) - our guts and breathing system work on this principle. then next level of movement in the development of the humans was sidebending (like fish). then dinosaurs inhabitated the earth and they developed flexion extension movement. then later during the development higher primates developed rotation movement in the transverse plane that does not have to fight gravity. each of these developmental steps were requiring more and more complex involvement of the hemispheres of the brain.
Matt also talked about how humans developed ability to perceive time. Ability to remember experiences and consequently plan to the future.
- why the deep longitudinal system may be defunct.- why breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day afterall... (high levels of the cortisol in the morning set us up for some activity. a primal humans would not store food in the cave as it would be sniffed up by dangerous animals and thus human lives would be in danger, so the primal human would in the morning with lots of cortisol go out to catch and kill the mammoth. Matt suggested that perhaps we should behave in the same way, we perhaps do not need breakfast. morning is an ideal time to exercise and then the first meal of the day should perhaps be lunch).
- how endurance exercise may not be the villain its made out to be (Matt suggested that the primal human would exercise in a different way as we are told generally. He believes that there are three different levels of speed the primal human would exercise at - walking, jogging and occasional sprint - the same way as if we would imagine hunting the mammoth.)
- Understand how higher reflexive factors can be causative in most injuries - and simple screening tools to identify them (hearing problems, eye problems or TMJ problem can cause the rotation or side shift of the atlas and this would lead into the postural changes that would cause the whole body be in imbalance that would lead sooner or later to the injury).
- Learn which are the most proprioceptive muscles in the entire animal kingdom & 9 reflexes that can make them malfunction (the most proprioceptive muscles are suboccipitals. thus Matt hardly every manipulates the CSp as the alteration of the proprioception in the suboccipitals could lead to lots of problems. Matt also talked about some commonly seen patterns. for some reason in a person sprains their ankle, it will typically cause the switching off of the gluteus medius muscle on the ipsilateral side).
- Discover 6 key examples of sports injuries that may not be what they first appear.
- A top level view of the recommendations for transition from shod to minimalist footwear...
i really liked a bit in which he explained about the evolution of the humans. the most primitive movement developed was circumferencial movement (like worms) - our guts and breathing system work on this principle. then next level of movement in the development of the humans was sidebending (like fish). then dinosaurs inhabitated the earth and they developed flexion extension movement. then later during the development higher primates developed rotation movement in the transverse plane that does not have to fight gravity. each of these developmental steps were requiring more and more complex involvement of the hemispheres of the brain.
Matt also talked about how humans developed ability to perceive time. Ability to remember experiences and consequently plan to the future.
24.2.2013 - Business building lecture
This was the most interesting 5 hour lecture i have ever been to. The presenting lady kept my attention all the time and she shared with us many good tips how to start our own business.
she shared with us also good websites to check before opening any business:
www.businesslink.gov.uk
www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
www.upmystreet.com
www.businessballs.com
she mentioned a group called BNI - business network interantional, that is worth to join. people there share their ideas and promote their businesses .
also a good book by Michale E Gerber called E Myth revisited has been recommended to us.
Bad news are that apparently it takes up to 3 years to start to make profit from the business. Good luck to us all.
she shared with us also good websites to check before opening any business:
www.businesslink.gov.uk
www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
www.upmystreet.com
www.businessballs.com
she mentioned a group called BNI - business network interantional, that is worth to join. people there share their ideas and promote their businesses .
also a good book by Michale E Gerber called E Myth revisited has been recommended to us.
Bad news are that apparently it takes up to 3 years to start to make profit from the business. Good luck to us all.