When your car is broken you visit a mechanic. By Eleanor Andrews Let’s consider the example of a car or bicycle wheel. The circular shape of the wheel enables it to move freely and facilitates the movement of the car or bike on the surface it’s on. If the wheel were square instead of circular,…
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All I need is the air that I breathe.
The breath of life. By Eleanor Andrews When we speak of anatomy, one of the critical organs that comes to mind is the lungs. The lungs play a vital role in the respiratory system by facilitating the exchange of gases, ensuring that we take in oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide. For this process to work…
If we cannot communicate, we cannot understand.
Understanding our patients is vital. Most of us know that animals communicate differently, so it is essential that ethnology and learning theory are included in osteopathic training. How else can we understand their behaviour? Evaluating an animal’s body language, movement patterns, and nonverbal cues is critical to the success of a case. We must listen…
Osteopathy is not a treatment modality
“What is different about osteopathic treatment?” Osteopaths are often confused with other MSK professionals because they use the body to administer treatment. But, the reality is that treatment is only a tiny part of the osteopathic process. Osteopaths do not see a patient with an injury. They see (as examples):An animal in pain. An animal…
It’s Almost Time…
In just a few weeks time, we will open our door to the first of our Advanced Seminar Workshops. These will be standalone workshops that can be purchased separately (for CPD) or as part of an AOI Certified pathway of advanced study. As with all AOI programmes, we only accept 12 students per workshop,…
Helping Our Community
What do you need to grow? Educational options to help you as people and practitioners. We are aware that our community is diverse (owners, trainers, vets, vet physios, animal osteopaths etc.), and we know that not everyone wants (or has the time and money) to study a two-year programme in animal osteopathy. Consequently, we would love to…
Study Tip #4 – Choose Your Style
Each student is different when it comes to learning styles and it’s really useful to know how you learn so you don’t end up feeling like a failure when actually it’s the methods that you’re using that are the problem. For example. I personally, have to contextualise my learning into clinical scenarios; be that anatomy,…
Study Tip #3 – Have a Study Routine
One of the most important aspects of productivity is planning and focus. When we’re constantly side-tracked by interruptions – be that by a WhatsApp message or a family member – our creative flow is affected and, if you’re in the middle of trying to master a new topic, it’s a real pain in the ***…
Study Tip #2 – Sleep Health
Today’s Study Tip is about setting yourself up to succeed by sleeping well. Many students try to fit far too much into a day, cramming their studies in at the end of a long day of work, when they’d prefer to snuggle up in front the TV. Then, because they feel guilty, they stay up…
Study Tip #1 – Create a space that inspires
We have created a series of Study Tips for our own students, and we thought they might be useful to other students too. Feel free to share. In this first tip, we highlight the importance of private workspace. Since COVID, many people have worked from home, and this often means you don’t get the personal time you…
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