Story in The Telegraph: Pain So Bad I Longed for Death. “Her headache was utterly unbearable, but the doctors were mystified and the countless drugs did nothing. Angela Lambert describes how, after four months of agony, she was brought back from the brink of suicide.”

Angela Lambert: “I was taking eight different drugs, some of them four times a day. The dosages got higher until my brain felt full of cement.”

Osteopathic manipulative therapy can significantly reduce lower-back pain after pregnancy, according to German researchers.

The therapy decreased postpartum low back pain by over 70% in women who had given birth at least three months before beginning treatment, according to a study in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

“For months,” the baby son of British writer Ben Wakeling, “struggled his sleep.” Then he and his wife took their child to a cranial osteopath. Wakeling recalls other success stories as well.

Citing personal stories, the BBC reports that “cranial osteopathy really can help disturbed babies sleep at night, according to new research carried out in Manchester. The work is thought to be the first formal investigation of osteopathy in the UK … Two-thirds of the group under study saw remarkable improvements.”

Osteopath Aberin Fur explains to the Telegraph that “osteopathy is the treatment of the person not the pathology.” The article describes osteopathy as a long-established and well-respected area of complementary medicine whose practitioners believe that proper functioning of the body’s “structure” is central to good health. “There is a degree of intuition in our work,” says Fur, “and our skill is in our hands. But it is really about an understanding of what’s happening at tissue level.”

Click The Osteopathic Cranial Academy logo above for a list of research articles supporting the principles of osteopathy, the physiologic concepts of cranial osteopathy, and the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulation.

Note that much of the supporting research has been published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA), which may not be included in all medical databases and so is missed by many researchers in doing literature searches. Searching the JAOA directly will enhance the results of most searches.

Renowned integrative physician Dr. Andrew Weil tells the story of Arizona-based osteopath Dr. Fulford in his book Spontaneous Healing.

In his biography of the father of osteopathy, Dr. John Lewis writes: “Andrew Taylor Still was a nonconformist, a scientist in the true sense of the word, and a deep thinker. A pioneer in thought and action, a philosopher and a philanthropist … A terrible personal tragedy – the deaths of three of his four children from meningitis – led to his disillusionment with drugs as curative agencies and consequent search for a more effective way of practicing medicine.”