Classical Osteopathy

Classical Osteopathy

by | Sep 15, 2017 | Bookshop

Classical Osteopathy

The Knee Joint – T.E. Hall

John Wernham’s Classical Osteopathy is a collection of lectures given by eminent osteopaths one of whom is T. Edward Hall.

In a lecture to Osteopaths T. E. Hall states: “We, you and I, know that while we are called upon to deal with many hundreds of cases of knee disablement, discomfort and pain, only a very small percentage of them can be classified as a definite displaced meniscus. Except where certain occupational hazards exist, i.e., footballers, ballet dancers, miners, etc., if all present here averaged one true cartilage a year for each year in practice, it would be something extraordinary. When we do come upon this condition, especially on the first occasion, we can and should be able to specifically correct it and then follow up by adjustment of the lesser mechanics of movement to the greater. If this is accomplished correctly, all things being equal, the knee should be able to function normally in every way. It is the neglect to normalize the lesser movements of sidebending and rotation, and neglect in the insistence on the carrying out of the appropriate exercises which leaves the knee open to permanent injury.”

T.E. Hall further writes: “We should remind ourselves also that children under 12 years of age complaining of pain in the knee, especially if apparently disabled by the condition, we should of course, rule out any possibility among hosts of other already mentioned, conditions such as Osgood Schlatter’s disease, Pelligrini fractures and congenital discoid meniscus, etc.”

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Classical Osteopathy

Classical Osteopathy

by | Dec 3, 2015 | Bookshop

Classical Osteopathy

Classical Osteopathy

John Wernham’s Classical Osteopathy is a collection of lectures given by eminent osteopaths which include Dr. A. T. Still, Dr. John Martin Littlejohn, T. Edward Hall, George V. Webster, Carl McConnell and Louisa Burns.  In these lectures can be found the basic Principles of Osteopathy which are the foundation of the Classical Osteopathy approach to treatment known as the Body Adjustment.

In this textbook on Classical Osteopathy, Dr. John Martin Littlejohn wrote “The underlying principle of osteopathy is expressed in the words, Mechanical Organic Adjustment.”  Littlejohn continues to comment that “the body is a mechanism; that is, it is an order of machine, all the parts of the machine working together for the common good of the mechanism.  In addition to this, the body is its own commissariat; in other words it takes the raw materials from the field of nature, and it uses these basic substances in the preparation of new substances and in the preparation of forces.  The body is a vital mechanism – that is an organism.  Now this is the part we must not forget.  It is not to correct to speak of the body as a machine, or as a mechanism, unless we speak of it as a vital mechanism.  When the body takes the raw materials it transforms these into the vital.  There is nothing that is assimilated in the body that is not first vitalised, and every process which takes place in the body is a vital process.  Every lesion that we find in the body is a vital lesion in relation to the vitality of the patient.  For example, if the bone lesion were the only lesion found in the body, then after correction it would remain corrected.  Does it in fact always do so?  It gets out because the vitality will not allow it to remain correct”.

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