Osteopathy as a Career: the first year in practice

I work in three practices, and patients often ask if that’s “normal”. As osteopathy generally isn’t available on the NHS, clinics are typically small businesses that can’t provide 8 hours of patients, 5 days a week for a new practitioner. Unless you’re taking over a list from someone, you’re unlikely to find full time work […]

Osteopathy as a Career: studying at the BSO (now UCO)

I can only give my account here, so I decided to narrow this post down from “studying osteopathy” to “studying at the BSO”. I studied the full time MOst course from 2012-2016, with former part time students and pre-registered physiotherapists and sports therapists joining us for third and fourth year. This has changed somewhat, but this […]

Osteopathy as a Career: applying for the course

For those who’ve stumbled across this with no idea what osteopathy is- it’s a holistic manual therapy, meaning that patients, generally with muscular or joint pain, come to us and we consider all parts of their history to find a diagnosis. We’re trained to identify whether any patient fits in our remit or needs referral to […]