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considering a career in alternative therapy/treatments anyone got advice/best place to train?Employment?
Looking for best alternative therapy course, place of study,funding info,employment prospects. Thanks for any help, have a great christmas all Forgot to add im living in Wales uk.
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- Bastyr University is well known in Alt-Med, Merry Christmas to you and good luck with your studies. sad that your good question received the rant from one with no knowledge or understanding of Alt-Med ADD no one wishes to lay a glove on the discredited psychiatrist. He lost in court. (40 cases, was it?) He admitted to the judge he couldn't pass Board Exams, yet holds himself out as an expert on topics unknown to him. the facts are in the court records. ADD to facts are in court records Add know nothings abound...cant read court transcripts, twist reports from records to foster lies to people told by one highly discredited psychiatrist. makes excuses for lack of Board Certification continuously,and considers self to actually poses useful knowledge....dogma spews like a volcano
- I wouldn't rely too much on quackwatch. See the link below to look at the credentials of the Author. You'll see his actions are nothing short of misleading and deceptive. http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html There are a lot of alternative therapy practitioners around. Many do short courses which do not give them decent clinical skills in case history taking, clinical testing and diagnosis. The reason being that the courses are too short and you cannot pack all this into 500 or 1000 hours so they just teach the very basic anatomy and very little physiology when they teach the techniques. A lot of the courses listed in Quackwatch are poorly taught by people who know the manual side of their therapy but do not have a good clear understanding of the anatomy and physiology so cannot give good explanations to the claims of their therapies. I've lifted a quote from http://quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/massageschool.html ##From the first week of school, I noticed quite a few medical claims being made about massage. Our massage textbook offered little physiological explanation to back up the claims. For instance, the textbook claimed massage improves digestion. When I asked an instructor how this claim could be objectively measured, I was told, "People report that they have to go to the bathroom after a massage." That was the only explanation I was given. As my year in school continued, I found few factual answers to my many questions.## I would agree that the claim has nothing to back it up. People reporting needing to empty their bowels after a massage means that it is possible the peristaltic action of the digestive system speeds up. Peristalsis is just 1 function of many in the whole digestion process. The fact that it can be speeded up doesn't prove digestion is aided. The person teaching probably didn't know the physiology and equated good peristalsis to good digestion and was probably unable to elaborate. Based on the Anatomy and Physiology of the body I could give a number of explanations as to how massage could be helpful to bodily function for many of the claims listed on the quackwatch page. Good research does exist regarding lymph drainage and fluid dynamics during massage. Just have a look at PEDro, Pubmed or Science Direct. The courses where the training is longer with an emphasis on screening patients suitability to treatment are the best ones. These are expensive and time consuming. It takes 4 -5 years to train as a Chiropractor or Osteopath for example and 3 years to become a junior physiotherapist. Compare that to 1 year as a sports massage therapist? Who is going to be safer and have better general knowledge of healthcare? The careers which take longer to qualify and require greater commitment tend to be the ones with the best employment prospects and more patients per head. You will also find the therapies with the more intense longer training have much higher academic requirements. The best course for you really depends on you. I suggest you look at something that interests you, find out more about it and see if you can observe a therapist of a therepy you are interested in. Ask them why they are interested in it, what made them train and how they funded it. We all have different stories. I was very unhappy working in the IT industry found out what I needed to do to train, did and access course in science, took voluntary redundancy from work, and sold my house to pay for the fees and living expenses for 4 years. Other people take loans or get scholarships. Added: It is interesting that Kalos is so defensive about his beloved website quackwatch and can only offer this as a defence when slating altmed. If you look carefully at quackwatch you'll see that it is writen by people who have an opinion about ______ . An opinion is anecdotal. For some reason an anecdote supporting quackwatch is perfectly valid and acceptable. For bizzare reasons, which haven't been explained to me, anecdote which doesn't support quackwatch is unaceptable and unscientific. Quackwatch makes claims about human physiology which are actually wrong for example from http://quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/massage.html ''the bones of the skull fuse early in life and cannot be moved independently [6].'' WRONG. The bones in the skull do not fuse. They are connected via connective tissue but most certainly do not fuse together and form a union like other bones in the body for example the illium, ischium and pubis which start off as 3 separate bones and go on to form 1 bone called the innominate (1 side of the pelvis). Skulls dissected in 80 year olds have clearly NON FUSED skull bones which articulate once the connective tissue has been removed. This cannot be said for the innominate. it exists as 1 unit not 3 bones tightly packed together but separate entities. A man that has appointed himself an expert in alternative medicine get something as basic as this wrong. Has he ever seen a skull in dissection? Quackwatch breaks it own rules. It misrepresents, and rarely provides references to any decent studies to support its claims. Other times like above it just gives out wrong information. What can we expect from an author who mis-represents himself so readily? I'm not even going to bother making counter claims about kalos's additions as I have learn't that it is best to just ignore him. I suggest every body does that. Quote some decent references from reputable journals and I'll be interested. Added: 'Most of all avoid going to UK Osteopathy schools. UK Osteopaths are hopeless quacks whose training is so poor the government does not allow them to be titled "doctors".' Where do you get you get your information from Mr Kalos? Why should Osteopaths use the title Doctor? We aren't doctors or pretending to be. WE ARE OSTEOPATHS. We chose to remain a separate entity and didn't want to disapear into allopathy, like our US counterparts, by voluntarily agreeing not to use the title to differentiate ourselves from allpaths who have an entirely different philosophy. I hope you can provide evidence that our Osteopathic training is poor. I agree our training in issuing Prescriptions is non existent. Why would that be? Its because we don't do it!!! Is that how we are poorly trained? If your measure of training is judged by whether or not prescriptions can be issued I really feel sorry for you. I make no apology for not being qualified to do this. Stop spamming the boards. If you can't answer a question keep of it, and don't keep telling lies.
- My honest opinion is from all the alt therpaies I have tried homeopathy & spirutal healing worked for me. The results with spiritual healing were amazing & it's wonderful. For more advice, this is theor official site: http://www.nfsh.org.uk/
