British Holistic Veterinary Journal - Ostéo4pattes

1999- 2008, ten years ago ?

Does it still exist ?

We only have one issue of this journal, you will find its content here (http://www.biblioboutik.vetosteo.com/spip.php?article75)

But we write here the only paragraph where they speak about osteopathy:
In a letter from our neighbour vet, Graham Hart.

Letter from France:

» There are over twenty vets listed in the ROY Veterinaire as having a specialist interest in osteopathy ¹;
That is about twenty more than in the U.K. !
It is possible to do a course in the Subject ², run by vets.
It is seven week-ends over a year or so. I find the subdivisions of osteopathy a bit confusing but I think this is most allied to what we call Cranial Osteopathy in the UK.
One feels for the primary respiratory metabolism, something which requires a great deal of practice and skill. I have watched one vet do this and I can only describe it as more a ballet than a jerking, bone cracking event.
The vet used the horse itself to effect the movements in the thoracic and lumbar spine, rather than try to physically « crack bones ».
In the cervical spine it was a bit more of a bone cracking procedure but no great big sudden forced movements but a bending of the neck then a sudden small thrust just at the right spot, very impressive (when does the next course start ?).
I was amazed and saddenned to find that the « ordenace veterinaire » the equivalent of the RCVS) does not recognise any of this³.
However the use of alternative medecine is growing as in the UK so it will probably just be a matter of time before these modalities are recognised. »