Academic Qualifications and Professional Associations:
Member of the Register of the General Osteopathic Council of the United Kingdom
Member and former Council Member of the British Osteopathic Association. I joined the old OAGB in 1975 which became the BOA and then the IO. I served on council in various roles from 2006-14.
DO 1975 The British School of Osteopathy
FETC West London Institute 1978
PhD March 2006 for research into the changes in collagen during the menstrual cycle and the link with injury incidence. This was awarded by the Open University of the United Kingdom and it was completed in association with the Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London where I was a research fellow between 1984 and 1993.
Visiting Professor The Japanese Osteopathic Association 1996.
2004 Elected Chairman of the Waltham Forest Osteopathy Group.
Together with Dary Herbert DO I co-founded The Waltham Forest Osteopathy Group.
Initially this was a group of osteopaths working in the Waltham Forest area to negotiate with the NHS for provision of an NHS contract to provide osteopathic services. Unfortunately because of funding issues and problems relating to commissioning the project failed however instead we turned it into a postgraduate association that provides CPD for its members. We have met every month for 10 months each year at a local private hospital for two hours. The programme can vary from specialists provided by the hospital to members of the group presenting topics they have prepared for the group. We have had technique sessions and meetings with the GOsC and IO discussing various matters ranging from CPD to consent issues. We have also had some very successful study days where for a small additional fee we have met at a local medical school for an anatomy day in the dissection rooms or had a first aid validation day where we all received a certificate bringing our first aid skills up to date. It remains a group of 60 people who meet regularly and learn together making CPD relevant to osteopathic practice. Despite yearly elections I am still the Chairman and Daryl is still the Secretary.
Teaching and Examining experience:
Undergraduate:
I was involved in teaching at The British School of Osteopathy since graduating in 1975. I started as a junior clinical tutor. This developed into my becoming a Senior Clinical Tutor and Senior Lecturer and Examiner and eventually the head of department of Applied Anatomy and Physiology.
Apart from general clinic tutoring I started a demonstration clinic at the school where students were encouraged to bring difficult cases for evaluation and treatment.
I was a Senior Lecturer at The BSO where I taught Osteopathy and Obstetrics to the fourth- year students as part of their elective studies.
I founded the first specialist clinic for the treatment of Expectant Mothers at the BSO in 1982 where more than 5000 patients have been treated. The clinic continues to this day.
Postgraduate:
I taught many times at the BSO at a postgraduate level since the late 1970s. Subjects included Osteopathy and Obstetrics, Visceral Osteopathy, The TMJ, and related subjects.
I taught at postgraduate levels many times for the annual conference of the British Osteopathic Association now the Institute of Osteopathy, and at postgraduate weekends around the UK usually organised by the regional societies.
I also taught at the manipulation modules organised by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy as part of their Masters Course foe extended scope practitioners.
Apart from my role as teaching role at the BSO I have extensive experience teaching and examining at osteopathic schools internationally in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Israel, Russia, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, North America, Canada, Russia and Japan.
Examining Experience:
I was module examiner for the undergraduate programme at The BSO from 1982 until 2014.
As head of department I was responsible for the final written examination papers at BSc and MSc level.
I was chairman of the International Jury and External Examiner for The Flanders
International College of Osteopathy in Antwerp Belgium 1987- 2016
2013-18 I was the External Examiner appointed by the Anglia Ruskin University of East Anglia to The London School of Osteopathy.
Publications and Journal Articles:
A clearer understanding of migraine, BOJ (Old Series), Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 1981-2, pp. 23-32.
Innominate rotation – fact or fiction, BOJ (Old Series), Vol. 14, No. 2, December 1982, pp. 101-7.
Osgood-Schlatters disease: a realistic osteopathic approach, BOJ (Old Series), Vol. 16, No. 2, December 1984, pp. 79-81.
The physiology of soft tissue massage, BOJ (Old Series), Vol. 15, No. 1, June 1983, pp. 1-6.
Approaches to treatment an historical perspective, BOJ (New Series), Vol. VII, 1991; pp. 19-20.
Report on a survey to look into the incidence of acute musculo skeletal pain and the phasesnof the menstrual cycle, BOJ (New Series), Vol. XXI, 1998, pp. 7-8.
The management of low back pain in pregnancy. Man Ther. 1996 Sep;1(4):178-185. Sandler SE.
Books and DVD:
Osteopathy A Patients Guide Optima Press 1987
Osteopathy Macdonald Publishing 1989
Osteopathy and Obstetrics Anshan Publishing 2012
2 nd Edition is now in preparation. This book has been translated into French , German and Russian languages.
DVD Osteopathic Functional Technique.
Professional Experience:
I have run a private practice at Chingford in East London since 1975. The practice has a team of 4 osteopaths and an acupuncturist serving the local community. We see a wide variety patients in general osteopathic practice from babies to great grandparents who are self-referred, referred by family and friends and from local GPs. I worked as a clinical assistant for Colin Dove DO former principal of the BSO at his private practice in Romford from 1975-1983.
I was appointed Consultant Osteopath to The Portland Hospital for Women and Children in 1998 where I continue to work on a part time basis treating referrals of pregnant patients and others from Consultant Gynaecologists and Obstetricians.
I have extensive experience in teaching and treating cases of coccyx pain and my Power Point presentation for the manual treatment of Coccyx pain has been extensively used and referenced via the internet. In April 2017 I was invited to attend the International Symposium on Coccygeal Pain at the Hospital Dieu in Paris organised by Prof. Yves Maigne.
