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| The concepts proposed by the pioneers of osteopathy still guide our diagnostic and therapeutic principles to some extent. However, in the light of modern anatomical and physiological knowledge, the physiological models created that time, both in teaching and practice, must not be applied without due critical analysis. Working closely with the scientific academic world requires an up to date educational approach based on different levels of evidence. Fryer sets out an, “Evidence-informed osteopathy” approach, along the same lines as evidence-based medicine. We ourselves need to research and reflect in order to produce our own standard osteopathic therapies and diagnoses. |
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The CEESO Research Department plays an active part in this process, enhancing students' awareness of the use of levels of evidence in osteopathy, developing students' research skills, and fostering cooperation between teaching staff, doctors and osteopaths. The department is involved in oral and poster communications at medical, scientific and osteopathic congresses, and publishes work in peer-reviewed journals. Internally, the Research Department works with the CEESO's Paris and Lyon dissertation departments to ensure correct methodology for finals coursework, and with the department responsible for designing programmes of study to ensure that CEESO teaching makes use of the most up-to-date biomedical information.
Our students benefit directly from the work carried out by the Research Department:
- publication of literature reviews, such as that carried out on the neurophysiology of manipulation, which allows us to update our theoretical and practical courses
- publication of research on the pressure used for cranial palpation in practical lessons which gives students an idea of the normal pressure professionals exert during the diagnosis of somatic dysfunction
- creation by the Research Department of prizes awarded annually on the basis of scientific merit for one dissertation at each of our schools in Paris and Lyon. These prizes provide a route to becoming a research professional: each recipient receives logistical support culminating in the submission of his or her work to a scientific journal, through which it will be indexed in the main biomedical databases. |
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Graduates and teachers alike also benefit from the experience gained through the Research Department's publications and presentations at scientific and osteopathic congresses on the subject of pain.
A post-graduate seminar on how to make scientific communications is held annually in Lyon and Paris. We hope this will stimulate certain vocations which we believe are essential for the future of our profession. It is down to us to explain to the academic world in an intelligible way our areas of expertise, our limitations, and our diagnostic and therapeutic methods. The notion of a shared public health culture is developed at the CEESO, promoting cooperation between its teachers, doctors and osteopaths, and benefiting our students.
The CEESO Research Department is recognised for its expertise and is called upon to draft professional documents (HAS) and study protocols on the effects of osteopathic treatment in hospitals (APHP). Structures are now in place permitting effective cooperation between the CEESO and other European osteopathic research departments |
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