Resources & Links
MRC Osteopathy Resources
Patient Information and Registration Form If possible, please download, read, and complete this prior to your initial consultation. Don't worry if you can't, just arrive five or ten minutes early for your appointment, we have printed copies for you to fill out in the reception area.
Some General Pointers On Your Exercise Routine much of this material will (should!) sound familiar to you if you have had an exercise session with us. This is a short recap of some of the points we cover, as we know it's a lot of information to take in at once!
Activity Diary You do not have to download and complete this form unless/until your osteopath asks you to.
Pain
The Pain Toolkit
(downloadable and printable copy)
The Pain Toolkit
(animated version, for those who prefer watching to reading)
Understanding Pain In Less Than Five Minutes
A really good short video summarising what we know about pain (YouTube)
Understanding pain - and what's to be done about it in 10 minutes!
A slightly more in-depth video, with similar information (YouTube)
The mystery of chronic pain
(TED talk)
The Drug Cabinet In The Brain
(from the NOI group)
(downloadable and printable copy)
The Pain Toolkit
(animated version, for those who prefer watching to reading)
Understanding Pain In Less Than Five Minutes
A really good short video summarising what we know about pain (YouTube)
Understanding pain - and what's to be done about it in 10 minutes!
A slightly more in-depth video, with similar information (YouTube)
The mystery of chronic pain
(TED talk)
The Drug Cabinet In The Brain
(from the NOI group)
Back Pain
Low Back Pain (Dr. Mike Evans) - one of my favourite videos ever on this topic, if you are a patient of mine, there's a fair chance you've seen this already!
Stress
The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Stress (Dr. Mike Evans)
Exercise
Fitness Studio (NHS)
Very visual (which can help when you're starting out), and best of all, free to use, and available 24 hours a day (thank you, wonders of the internet!)
23 ½ hours (24hr Fitness with Dr. Mike Evans)
HASfit is a good YouTube Channel, including workout videos as well as 30 and 90-day fitness programs.
Very visual (which can help when you're starting out), and best of all, free to use, and available 24 hours a day (thank you, wonders of the internet!)
23 ½ hours (24hr Fitness with Dr. Mike Evans)
HASfit is a good YouTube Channel, including workout videos as well as 30 and 90-day fitness programs.
General Medical & Health Information
Generally speaking, when consulting with Dr. Google, try to frequent websites with ".edu" and ".gov" in the title, not ".blogspot"!
Government, university, and medical/scientific organisations present more solid evidence and background for a condition or question.
Contrary to popular belief, Wikipedia is a pretty good resource, as long as you bear in mind that it is editable by the public (luckily there are awesome nerds that keep an eye on their areas of expertise, so that any egregiously inaccurate information will often be edited back again very quickly) and you actually follow up the references (this is good practice when doing any research).
For more information about what to look for when you are looking up health information online, check out our recent blog here.
Some good websites to start you off:
Health Direct Trusted health information and advice online and over the phone (1800 022 222), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Funded by the governments of Australia.
Medline Plus and the US National Library Of Medicine are provided by the US National Institute of Health.
The Better Health Channel Information provided by the Victorian State Government
WebMD One of the largest "Dr. Googles" around. Generally quality information, a bit clickbait-y in design and format, but a good place to start researching your area of interest; just remember that the primary purpose of websites like these is not to inform and educate, but to make money (hence the clickbait titles and ads everywhere). They do have good information on the whole.
John Hopkins Health information from one of the top medical facilities in the world.
Speciality organisations like the National Asthma Council (Australia), the American Heart Association, or Muscular Dystrophy UK, to name a few examples, are great places to research a particular condition, and will have plenty of information, research and reputable links you can use to springboard off to other sources.
Government, university, and medical/scientific organisations present more solid evidence and background for a condition or question.
Contrary to popular belief, Wikipedia is a pretty good resource, as long as you bear in mind that it is editable by the public (luckily there are awesome nerds that keep an eye on their areas of expertise, so that any egregiously inaccurate information will often be edited back again very quickly) and you actually follow up the references (this is good practice when doing any research).
For more information about what to look for when you are looking up health information online, check out our recent blog here.
Some good websites to start you off:
Health Direct Trusted health information and advice online and over the phone (1800 022 222), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Funded by the governments of Australia.
Medline Plus and the US National Library Of Medicine are provided by the US National Institute of Health.
The Better Health Channel Information provided by the Victorian State Government
WebMD One of the largest "Dr. Googles" around. Generally quality information, a bit clickbait-y in design and format, but a good place to start researching your area of interest; just remember that the primary purpose of websites like these is not to inform and educate, but to make money (hence the clickbait titles and ads everywhere). They do have good information on the whole.
John Hopkins Health information from one of the top medical facilities in the world.
Speciality organisations like the National Asthma Council (Australia), the American Heart Association, or Muscular Dystrophy UK, to name a few examples, are great places to research a particular condition, and will have plenty of information, research and reputable links you can use to springboard off to other sources.
