Osteopathiepraktijk Hans Bok

17/06/2021

Quote of the day, after late James Jealous
HEALTH, to be seen as " something other, or the extraordinary within us" It cannot be damaged, diseased or lesioned. It is at the core of our being, it is unchangeable and cannot be increased or decreased".
Therefor, to find the health should be the object of the osteopath!

14/06/2021

Een link naar de onderbouwing van biodynamics in osteopathy

07/06/2021

https://ostemed-dr.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/myfirst/id/13023/

19/02/2021

In honour and in memory of Dr James Jealous

“A Biodynamic View of Osteopathy In The Cranial Field”
Personal experiences from an osteopath following his first course with the biodynamic model, phase I. The present curriculum of the biodynamic course comprises phase I to VIII.
The original text was written for the CORPP, the organiser of the course, april 2003.

By Hans Bok, D.O. - NL

The biodynamic model
The creation of the Biodynamics Program by James S. Jealous, D.O. came from a deep love and respect for the Soul of Osteopathy and an attempt to bring forth the delicate nature of Osteopathy to physicians seeking something more.
The curriculum of the Biodynamics program is designed for clincians with prior training in the Cranial Field of Osteopathy. The foundation of the program is set upon the therapeutic powers of the Dynamic Stillness, the Breath of Life, the tidal potency, fluids and other Natural Laws at work supporting and generating life. No technique will be taught other than full cooperation with the composite of the Livng Mechanism and its intention within the moment. It is not about bones, or levers, or palpation. It is not about balanced membranous or ligamentous articular tension; these approaches are a different composite. It is about the Tide at work as the primary source of diagnosis and treatment with no application of force to Osteopathic lesions or psycho-emotional systems. The environment of the program is in the quiet of the Natural world with small groups of participants. Time for rest, reflection and exercise is woven into the program. The curriculum is called Biodynamics because it focuses on contact with Tidal forces as they specifically interchange in an ever-changing motif from momemt to moment. It is a living contact with life.
Osteopathy has shamefully hidden its Greatest Mystery and resources. As quoted by Dr. Jealous, “I believe that to acknowledge a higher wisdom at work and to sense rather than palpate is at the Soul of Osteopathy. A soul that will not compromise the beauty and Consciousness that lies beyond our intellect. Integrity demands that we speak undiluted truth. We are always perfect beginners, inspired, awed, apprehensive and self-searching; teaching is an act of love for the truth that is at the cornerstone of Originality.
Within the Dynamic Stillness we are healed without process or time. From the Breath of Life a new living matrix is created in each moment. The Tide brings us the power of Life and “feeds” us. The fluids respond, lawfully balancing the power of life and skillfully “driving” the hydraulic/potency continuum towards perfect proportion. The remainder imitates, dances, and flows but does not make “decisions.” Here is the Key. Decisions are made by the Breath of Life, decisions that dictate the priority, proportion, and endpoint of healing; decisions that the physician can perceive and sense using instinct and intuition followed by an intellectual understanding of the format. We begin with sensing Health, Life at work, not structural lesions. In a sense the platform has been reversed. We are following motion to its Source; the finite and infinite into the Whole.”

Personal experiences, phase I
You could have heard a pin drop. About fourty colleague osteopaths D.O. were going through a massive stillpoint, reaching a stillness through which the Potency of Primary Respiration could deliver its therapeutic forces (“to drink from the waters of life”, see Sutherland). In these moments I think we all sat or lay and joined moments of blissful peace.
Even after I had returned to Earth, on my journey home, but still after days I felt and still feel immensely in harmony with the world.
It was a marvellous four day course with the recently established CORPP. I salute the CORPP, Agnes van Engelen who organised the course, James Jealous as lecturer, Stephen Hagopian and Christian Sullivan as assistant lecturers.
The lectures contained a mature and grounded knowledge of anatomy, embryology and have been given, as had been announced, with a deep love and respect for the soul of osteopathy.
Hardly ever had I experienced such overwhelming warmth for the profession we have, compelling. Never had I experienced so much space for reflection.
The Tissues, the Reciprocal Tension Membranes, the Breath of Life, Stillpoint, Stillness, the Neutral, Primary Respiration, Fulcrum, Automatic Shifting Fulcrum, the Tide, the Fluids, the Embryology, all were beautifully described. The different comparisons between the mechanical(hvt), the functional(sec. or thoracic respiration) and the biodynamic models or approaches were clearly presented. We were all hanging to his lips.
James Jealous who, as a lecturer has been elaborating for thirty years on the works of Still, Sutherland and Becker, preaches that Osteopathy has shamefully hidden its greatest mysteries and resources and believes that to acknowledge a higher wisdom at work one needs to sense rather than palpate. That is at the Soul of Osteopathy(“Emergence of Originality”, “A biodynamic view of osteopathy in the cranial field”by James S. Jealous, D.O., revised 2003)!
I must say that I have found lectures in osteopathy are always of an outstanding standard compared with what you usally find in other subjects, but these really exelled.
I hope the reader will forgive my describing the four days from a very personal viewpoint, but I had my reservations to start with. I have worked with the biodynamic model for almost two years now and have been reading the works of Jealous, Becker, Still and Sutherland. So to speak I felt an auto-didact in his own rights. I thought the theories and patient practice could further my techniques, how naïve. I decided to embarke on the course to further my development in osteopathy through proper training and I did not regret it.
It isn’t a religion, it isn’t new. It’s the same old osteopathy as meant by Still and Sutherland(read them!).
Bone is just a stiffener to the fluid filled bag that is called human. We are water filled fascial mobile, as we already knew. And the beautiful thing is, as we also already knew, that this water- bag has a driving force towards health. Think about it, embryological forces, fluid driving forces transforming into healing forces, as Jealous coined as a possible theory. Here are another two. Sutherland (Contributions of thought, 1967) speaks about the unerring potency i.e. the fluids never make a mistake. Blechschmidt, (The beginnings of human life, 1977 and Biokinetics and biodynamics of human differentiation, 1976) speaks about the fluid forces never fail to make a perfect geometry.
Think about it, these two men, both scientists in their own field and era of time describing the same phenomena.
This course showed us how to connect with the body tissues, the fluids, the CNS and the motion present and how to treat through a Neutral and Stillness and to invite the body tot treat itself by its healing forces, from the inside. That driving force really is evident if you allow it to speak to you. The fascial drag, the fluid body, the bony patterns, the CNS-motion, all tell us a story which I hope , one day, we will be able to read with reasonably unerring accuracy. I think all of us had enough glimpses of it, perhaps even more, to know that it is there.

Thank you CORPP, thank you James Jealous for your support on my osteopathic evolutionary journey.

Thanks ever so much again James Jealous,
RIP

23/08/2020

https://www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/nieuwe-studies-bieden-hoop-ook-zonder-besmetting-heb-je-mogelijk-weerstand-tegen-corona~be6cce56/

Onderzoek naar de rol van zogeheten T-cellen biedt hoop dat mensen in hun immuunsysteem meer wapens hebben om het coronavirus te verslaan dan gedacht.

17/05/2020

Leuk om als osteopaat eens onderbouwing aangereikt te krijgen; fijn om te lezen uit onderzoek dat wat we doen nut en gunstige effecten heeft!

25/04/2020

Social distancing, 1,5 meter samenlevinghttps://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/13-studies-reveal-how-social-distancing-ie-social-isolation-can-increase-mortalit?utm_campaign=Daily+Newsletter%3A+Social+Distancing+May+Worsen+Epidemic+Outcomes+%28SS57JZ%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Daily+Newsletter&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJlbXMuYnJ5YW50QGljbG91ZC5jb20iLCAia2xfY29tcGFueV9pZCI6ICJLMnZYQXkifQ%3D%3D

Is social distancing really effective at preventing disease? Could the social isolation it requires be more harmful than the threat of infection it is intended to protect us against?

24/04/2020

John Fogerty (CCR)

20/03/2020

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, May 2007, Vol. 107, 199.

To the Editor:
The editorial by Michael M. Patterson, PhD,1 in the November 2005 issue of JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association reflects the important role that the osteopathic medical profession has to play in addressing the potential influenza pandemic resulting from the spread of the avian influenza virus, H5N1. To quote Dr Patterson1 in his concluding sentence, “The osteopathic medical profession [must remember]...the lessons of its heritage and [have] the courage to prepare itself to teach those lessons to others.”
Now is the time for the osteopathic medical profession to step forward and provide leadership. Dr Patterson's editorial mentions that mortality rates from influenza during the 1917-1918 pandemic were reduced from a national average of 6% to an average of 0.25% for patients treated with muscular relaxation and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), and that mortality rates from pneumonia during that pandemic were cut from as high as 75% nationally to 10% for osteopathically treated patients.1,2 If these dramatic statistics are indeed true, then does not the osteopathic medical profession have a societal obligation to train its allopathic colleagues, other care givers, and families in these life-saving techniques?
As Dr Patterson1 indicates, the use of OMT in the treatment of patients with influenza would likely result in the following benefits:

• reduced hospitalizations
• minimal reliance on medications
• improved patient immunity and defense mechanisms
• improved “self-care” regimens through the involvement of patients' family members
• additional clinical experience for osteopathic medical students
•
I reiterate, the time is now—before the pandemic begins—for the osteopathic medical profession to provide leadership on the problem of avian influenza and to share its knowledge about OMT with the rest of the world.

1
Patterson MM. The coming influenza pandemic: lessons from the past for the future [editorial] [published correction appears in J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2006;106:3]. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2005;105:498-500. Available at: http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/105/11/498. Accessed May 7, 2007.
2
D'Alonzo GE. Influenza epidemic or pandemic? Time to roll up sleeves, vaccinate patients, and hone osteopathic manipulative skills [editorial]. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2004;104:370-371. Available at: http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/104/9/370. Accessed May 7, 2007.

https://www.osteopathie-bok.nl

13/03/2020

Osteopathic Methods and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1917-1918

The great influenza pandemic of 1917-1918 has been legend in osteopathic lore. It killed almost 1.5 times as many people worldwide (10 million) in 6 months as did the entire World War I in more than 4 years (7.5 million).
Some sources put the death toll of the pandemic at closer to 20 million.

“The osteopathic medical community treated patients with influenza and its more potent sequela, pneumonia, with various forms of manipulative treatment, rest,
and hydration.
After the death sweep had abated, the leaders of the profession surveyed osteopathic practitioners nationwide regarding their experiences with treatment.”

The results showed that patients treated by osteopathic physicians had a death rate of 0.5%, whereas medically treated patients had an average 6% death rate
(up to 27% in Boston).

“Patients with pneumonia under osteopathic care had a death rate of less than 10%, as opposed to 33% of medically treated cases.”

“It is apparent that osteopathic methods were highly effective in the epidemic.”

Patterson quotes a 1919 study indicating that “people receiving routine osteopathic care seemed to have contracted that influenza at a much lower rate than did the untreated population.”

He discusses a 1937 article that indicated that drugs used to treat influenza, pneumonia, and other diseases by the medical profession were actually harmful to those receiving them. [It is noteworthy that the same drugs and classes of drugs are being used today.]

Lastly, he notes that “the best defense against disease and infection remains health.
Optimal health is the result of the optimization of the function of each individual. Osteopathic care that includes intelligently applied manipulative treatment is an excellent preventative treatment.

By Michael Patterson

Osteopathic manipulation was used extensively by D.O.s to treat patients. One D.O.’s method of using manipulation to heal victims of the disease was outlined in the Journal of Osteopathyfrom July 191

To treat the Flu osteopathically is to inhibit mechanically, by relaxing the muscles along the spine, gently but persistently, with deep pressure over its entire length, preferably with
the palms of the hands, with special inhibition in the suboccipital fossa, the area of the fourth, eighth, tenth … and eleventh dorsal inclusive. When there is edema of the lungs
the muscles employed in respiration should receive special attention.

As [hydrotherapy], dieteticas, and hygiene are public property, an osteopath need have no compunction in keeping the eliminating organs well flushed and limiting his patient to
a liquid diet during the run of temperature, by the easiest means possible; as such is his right and prerogative. I am convinced that hundreds of cases observed from the straight
Osteopathy, if given at the outset, would have arrested the progress of the disease at a very early stage and left the patient strong without sequelae.

Still National Osteopathic Museum

14/02/2020

Osteopathie en spiritualiteit
“Dear God, please save my brother.”
“Doctor, is there anything else you can do for my mother?”
How many times have we encountered clinical scenarios like these while taking care of our patients? As osteopathic physicians, we deal with end-of-life issues, serious illnesses and devastating injuries on a daily basis; some of us more frequently than others. How can we comfort our patients and their families in times of medical need when traditional Western medicine is already on board?
Spirituality is one answer. Spirituality has been defined as “a person’s experience of, or a belief in, a power apart from his or her own existence.” Spirituality is about the relationship between us and something larger. It means being in the right relationship with all that is. Spirituality comes into focus in times of emotional stress, physical illness, loss, grief and death . What does the history of osteopathic medicine say about spirituality? Dr. Andrew Taylor Still taught us about providing emotional support and encouragement to our patients dealing with end-of-life conditions.3 Our Five Model approach to the philosophy of medicine teaches us about spirituality in its Behavioral Model; we are taught to “assess and treat the whole person – physical, psychological, social, cultural, behavioral and spiritual.”
So what are we to do with this information as trusted physicians and physicians-in-training? One of the strengths of osteopathic medicine is the philosophy of evaluating the whole person and treating the body as a unit. Many of my patients have commented that I listen well. We are taught to listen to our patients with this philosophy in mind. I am a trained listener and I do this in the context of the four general osteopathic principles we know well.
As a physician, I am a highly trained technician and mechanic. I have also been trained to set aside my own beliefs (except to inform patients of rational and modern medical options) and to support them in their spiritual and cultural paradigm. When I listen in this way, I give patients the dignity, support and respect they deserve.
None of us has all the answers to life and death and everything in between. I do not know why a beautiful 18-year-old female was carried into my emergency room by her mother after being shot through the chest. I know only some of the reasons why fetuses spontaneously abort. I do not know why people get cancer other than the reason we were taught in medical school.
Medicine can explain a lot scientifically, but it cannot account for everything. There are questions that my medical training did not prepare me to deal with when taking care of patients. I know I have a compassionate framework in which to place these events and from which to counsel my patients. This is the osteopathic philosophy, and for this tool I am forever grateful”.

Kate Mc Caffrey DO

30/12/2019

A Meditation for the New Year
Imagine yourself an eagle soaring above time and space. Below is the vast expanse of your life. You spread your wings and glide above the peaks and valleys, surveying the personal and professional decisions you have made, the actions taken, the joys and sorrows experienced.
The major forces and influences in your life, career, family, relationships, friends, experiences, appear as rivers. At certain points two or more flow together, becoming forces of vast importance in your life: marriage, birth, loss, success, failure, triumph, tragedy.
You pull in your wings slightly and drift downward. Your vision is pulled toward a river that is deep, wide and powerful. Into its waters three other rivers connect and flow. As you gaze at this river, you recognize it as the reflection of your highest or best self.
Your best self is the harmonious blending of the dynamic and interactive elements of your soul, heart and mind. Through the soul, we connect to our transcendent spirit, through our hearts we connect to that which we love, and through our minds we connect to our creative genius. When we nurture these three aspects of our lives, the rewards exceed anything we could have imagined.
We see greater possibilities for ourselves and our families. We are more purposeful and resilient. We are more flexible, more willing and able to handle change. We are more focused and positive in all that we do. On the other hand, failing to attend to our higher selves results in being more limited, less fulfilled human beings.
If we accept that in 2017, the pressures of competition and dizzying technological advancement demand that organizations and people be in a constant state of transformation, then to meet the aspirations we have for both our personal and professional lives requires we pay attention to our higher selves. In other words, we are clear about what nourishes our souls, hearts and minds.
But, in this highly-organized world of “doing”, how do we gain that clarity so we are staying true to the “being” of our aspirations? Only by determining each day the things which truly matter to us and then making a commitment to bring them to fulfillment. Here are three questions to use as a guide:
What could I do today that would be truly meaningful?
What could I accomplish today that would provide a strong sense of satisfaction?
What step, what leap, could I take today in the direction of my dreams?
The journey of life is not about perfection, it is about progress. If you do this each day for the next year, you will have improved your life almost 1,100 times. Now, that’s a resolution worthy of the deepest commitment!
“Said the Mother Eagle to the child, ‘All eagles were born to soar. It is why we were created. Our power, however, comes not from what we can see, it is in the unseen. It is the wind, not our wings, that lifts us to the high places. It is our vision, not our eyes, that makes us rulers of the skies. But, above all, it is our spirit, not our speed, that leads us to be strong and free.'”
From: The Eagle’s Secret. (copyright—David McNally)
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