Osteopathy Unplugged – Details, episodes & analysis

This episode is part of our Origin Story series.

This is an important case history that documents how Still worked clinically in the early days (1880s) while he was developing the healthcare system he later named Osteopathy. We deconstruct this case history to explore what we think might have happened clinically and Osteopathically.

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We’ve created several foundational episodes, which are free and are available anywhere you get your podcasts.

The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged

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This episode is the 8th part of our series devoted to the Practice of Osteopathy. We explore the term, “Engine Wiping,” which was coined by Dr Still to describe any treatment that only addresses symptoms, and not cause. We reintroduce this historic phrase and bring it back into the modern Osteopathic lexicon.

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We’ve created several foundational episodes, which are free and are available anywhere you get your podcasts.

The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged

Please sign up for our mailing list news about our podcast by entering your email in the "Subscribe to our mailing list" section at the bottom of each page at www.OsteopathyUnplugged.com

This is the second of a 3-part series in question-and-answer format regarding the Osteopathic experience of finding health. We call this exploration “a deeper dive.” In these three deeper dives, we will answer the questions we received from listeners in response to the series of episodes on health, episodes 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Join us and explore . . . “To Find Health: A Deeper Dive – Part 2”

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We’ve created several foundational episodes, which are free and are available anywhere you get your podcasts.

The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged

Please sign up for our mailing list news about our podcast by entering your email in the "Subscribe to our mailing list" section at the bottom of each page at www.OsteopathyUnplugged.com

This is the first of a 3-part series in question-and-answer format regarding the Osteopathic experience of finding health. We call this exploration “a deeper dive.” In these three deeper dives, we will answer the questions we received from listeners in response to the series of episodes on health, episodes 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Join us and explore . . . “To Find Health: A Deeper Dive – Part 1”

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We’ve created several foundational episodes, which are free and are available anywhere you get your podcasts.

The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged

Please sign up for our mailing list news about our podcast by entering your email in the "Sign up for our mailing list" section at the bottom of each page at www.OsteopathyUnplugged.com

We are initiating an exciting new category for our podcast, a “Deeper Dive.” In this episode we will explore, in depth, questions that we received from our listeners about Bonnie’s Sutherland Memorial Lecture, “I Promised To Listen: The Life Of An Osteopath.” We will unpack key concepts that she presented in her lecture, and discuss them in greater detail. We know that you will find this and future episodes of a Deeper Dive to be stimulating and thought-provoking.

Join us and explore . . . “A Deeper Dive into Bonnie’s Sutherland Memorial Lecture.”

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This episode is one of the FREE foundational episodes.

In this episode Bonnie will recreate her Sutherland Memorial Lecture from 2014, “I Promised To Listen: The Life of an Osteopath.”

She originally gave this lecture at the annual conference of the Osteopathic Cranial Academy in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her presentation was the 54th Sutherland Memorial Lecture given since 1958.

Join us and listen as one of the great DOs of her generation shares her Osteopathic wisdom, and enriches all of our lives by integrating the principles of Osteopathy into a wholistic worldview. . .

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In this episode we will explore “Osteopathic Palliative Care.” From the earliest phases of Osteopathic history, palliative care has formed a key component of the Osteopathic approach to healthcare.  We address the important question: What is Osteopathic Palliative Care?

We start with an Osteopathic Origin Story, the account of A.T. Still caring for Harvey Hildreth who was dying from esophageal cancer in 1886. Harvey was the father of his close student and personal friend: Arthur Hildreth, DO.

We’ll delve into how Osteopathic palliative care is far more inclusive and intimate than palliative care in the prevailing medical culture. Because of the all-inclusive nature of Osteopathic treatment, our approach includes care for people with chronic or even incurable problems, as well as end-of-life care that is most often associated with hospice care.

Join us and explore . . . “Osteopathic Palliative Care”

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In this episode we will be simulating an Osteopathic treatment while you work with a practice partner. You will then use the skills presented in these workshops with your patients, in your office.

In this workshop, you will identify “the health” as a perceptual field, treat or remove an obstruction, and then re-engage the health. This back and forth style is a common way to structure an Osteopathic treatment.

We want you to get, out of your head and into your hands. We don’t want you to merely think about health as a cognitive process, we want you to have an experience of health.

Join us and explore . . . “Removing Obstructions to Health”

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In 1899, Andrew Taylor Still said, “To find health is the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease.” The recognition of health as a reference point and the origin of healing is what makes Osteopathy distinct from all other healing arts and sciences. It is health that organizes and manages your response to whatever diseases or dysfunctions challenge you. Without health there is no creative compensation and adaptation, for what has been challenged by aging, disease, dysfunction, or injury, and life ceases.

Perceiving health is not a simple, tangible state. You can’t touch health directly. It’s not like learning to palpate anatomic landmarks in the body. It is a nuanced experience you will develop as we guide you in the workshops, and as you practice. 

In this, and the next workshop, we have created a set of experiential workshops providing an opportunity for you to have a direct experience of health. These episodes provide the foundation for being in the territory of experiencing health, rather than just staying with the map of ideas. We want you to get out of your head and into your hands. We don’t want you to merely think about health as a cognitive process, we want you to have an experience of health.

Our podcast-based experiential workshops are an inquiry process. These workshops help to create a perceptual container, increasing your ability to “find health” in your patients. In this episode, Being Receptive to Health, we will guide you through an experience with a partner. Working with a practice partner simulates a clinical situation. Apply these skills with your patients, in your office.

Join us and explore . . . “Being Receptive to Experiencing Health”

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All the foundational episodes are free and available anywhere you get your podcasts.

The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged

Please sign up for our mailing list to be contacted when we have a new episode and for other news about our podcast by entering your email in the "Subscribe to our mailing list" section at the bottom of each page at www.OsteopathyUnplugged.com

We are introducing our new podcast educational format—the workshop. Episode #8 will be the first in a series of podcasts that will be experiential, rather than purely didactic. In this episode, Bonnie will be offering a guided meditation for you to explore your perception of health. She will be introducing the phrase, “To Find Health” as a type of osteopathy-based mantra that will help you to find health, in yourself as well as in your patients.

This meditation is an attempt to help set the context for you to experience health and to create a holistic environment for an Osteopathic Treatment to fully unfold. If you are not an Osteopath, then do this meditation regularly, in your daily life. This meditation has the potential to improve the quality of everyone’s life.

All forms of meditation are an inquiry process. This episode, and future workshops will help to create a perceptual container, increasing your ability, “To Find Health.”

In future episodes, we will be developing what we are calling Attention-Based Osteopathic Meditation. This will be a series of guided meditations that will enhance your ability to be present with your patients, or in your personal and professional life.

Join us and explore . . . “Perceiving Health—A Guided Meditation”

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All the foundational episodes are free and available anywhere you get your podcasts.

The complete collection is only available at https://www.patreon.com/OsteopathyUnplugged

Please sign up for our mailing list to be contacted when we have a new episode and for other news about our podcast by entering your email in the "Subscribe to our mailing list" section at the bottom of each page at www.OsteopathyUnplugged.com