Halifax Osteopaths

05/06/2026

Ear, Ear!
Just had a discussion about how ears work, and up pops this

How do our ears work?

This was a question that fascinated Nobel Prize laureate Georg von Békésy. He painstakingly dissected the structures that make up our inner ears, studying them with the help of a microscope and sequences of photographs as well as by measuring variations in electrical charges in the receptors. His research shed new light on our understanding of how the cochlea, a spiral shaped structure that transforms vibrations into neural signals, worked.

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Picture: Colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of the inside of a guinea pig inner ear showing the hearing organ, or cochlea. Running along the spiral structure are rows of sensory cells which respond to different frequencies of sound. The whole organ is just a few millimeters long. Credit: Dr David Furness

01/06/2026

Continuous Professional Development can be good

July 4th HEADACHE DAY
INTRODUCTION AND SCHEDULE

“Knowing what you know and what you don’t know, that is true knowledge.”
(Confucius)

A patient walks into your clinic complaining of a headache….

Is it safe to treat?
Are you confident in your diagnosis?
Do you know the underlying mechanisms?
Is your treatment likely to be effective or would they be better helped elsewhere?
Should you refer and if so who to?

This day is aimed to be clinically relevant and interactive.
Using real life case studies, you will find out what questions to ask, what tests you can do in an osteopathic setting and when it is appropriate to refer.
You will be able to recognise the most common headaches and gain an understanding of the underlying mechanisms based on latest headache science.

1. ‘Name that Headache’ - 24 case studies.
2. The Headache case history:
Questions that should be asked of every headache patient.
3. How worried should I be? Red, Amber, and Green flags.
4. Referral pathways and investigations.

Break

5. Diagnostic criteria for the most common headache disorders Migraine, Tension Type Headache, TACs (cluster), MOH.
Case studies quiz.
6. Headache Mechanisms; the latest science.

Lunch

Taking it into practice
7. 10-minute examination for headaches: Practical
8. The more complex headache - case studies: (Group task).

Break.

9. Other headaches you should be aware of PTHD, cervicogenic, SIH, IIH, NDPH
Review “Name that Headache”, to see if you would now answer differently.

Case discussion option.
Delegates are encouraged to present any case studies for the group to discuss.
This can be done on the day or by prior email to [email protected].

19/05/2026

If you have pain, pins and needles or numbness into your upper extremity with neck pain; this may be why.

The nerves from the lower part of your neck merge to form the Brachial Plexus supplying the skin and muscles of the upper limb.

18/05/2026

We are looking for a new receptionist
If you are interested please call
01422320225
or email
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For more details

15/05/2026

New Pilates Studio at Shaw Lodge Mills Halifax

Couple open new reformer Pilates studio in historic Halifax building

15/05/2026

And why not?

Our July 4th Meeting on Headaches, is in Beautiful York
If you want to make a weekend of it
Preferential NCSO room rates are available for The Marriott Delta Hotel York
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07/05/2026

A taste of (NCSO CPD) things to come

Today, we remember and reflect on the life and work of John Wernham, whose contribution to osteopathy continues to shape clinical thinking well beyond his own time.

John Wernham stood within a lineage that carried forward the early osteopathic principles, yet he was not simply a transmitter of ideas. His work was characterised by a persistent effort to clarify how the body functions as an integrated whole under the influence of gravity, strain, and internal demand. Rather than reducing clinical problems to isolated structures, he emphasised the organisation of the entire system.

Central to his teaching was the view that what presents in the patient is not random, nor purely local, but an expression of how the body has adapted over time. In this sense, symptoms are part of a broader pattern, reflecting the body’s attempt to maintain equilibrium under changing conditions.

John Wernham’s approach required careful observation, patience, and a willingness to think beyond technique. Treatment was not about applying more interventions, but about understanding where the system had become constrained, and how it might reorganise when those constraints were eased.

For many, his teaching marked a shift, from doing more to seeing more clearly.

His influence persists not only in the methods passed down, but in the standard he set for clinical reasoning: disciplined, whole-body, and grounded in principle.

On his birthday, it is worth revisiting not just what he taught, but how he approached the problem of the living body — as a dynamic, adaptive system, always seeking balance.

That perspective remains as relevant now as it was then.

28/04/2026

Why paracetemol and alcohol dont mix

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16/04/2026

Did you know your toenails are affected by your posture?
I did not know that toenails had so many names to describe their shape
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Your toenails aren't deformed because of genetics or bad shoes. They're shaped by foot pressure.

Look at your second toe. That nail shape didn't appear overnight. It's the cumulative record of how your weight has been landing on that toe for every step you've taken
since childhood.

Pincer, involuted, torsion, hooked, ram's horn, they all grow from the same root cause. The nail matrix is a plastic structure that remodels around the forces it
receives every step. Balanced weight bearing grows a flat, wide, straight nail. Asymmetrical weight bearing grows everything else.

I've watched this in clinic for twenty years. The nail isn't the problem. It's the symptom. The real distortion is upstream, in the sensory signal your feet send to the
brain, and the brain's decision about where to place your weight. That's why surgery, special clippers, and ointments keep failing. They're treating the symptom, not
the signal.

Most people have asymmetrical weight bearing. That's why the nails on one foot look different from the other. That's why the same shape keeps returning after every
clipping and every treatment.

You can train this consciously. Barefoot walking, toe spacers, foot exercises, these help. But when you do them while the signal from your foot to your brain is still
distorted, the nervous system builds the new pattern on top of the old compensation. Months of work stretches into years.

Correct the sensory signal first, and the same work collapses into months. The brain stops fighting itself. Every step builds in one direction.

You take five to ten thousand steps a day. Every step is a deposit into one of two patterns. By sixty the deposits become undeniable, the gait changes, the balance
goes, the toenails thicken, the falls begin.

In addition to this, Therapeutic Insoles are a great tool that can be used to activate the two hundred thousand receptors in your feet and restore accurate sensory
input from the ground, so the pressure your toes receive every step finally changes. Nails grow slowly. Change the signal and the shape follows.

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08/03/2026

A nice Sunday stretch of the flexor muscles

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