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OCA Book Club Event
Saturday, February 15 | 2pm PST, 5pm EST, 9am AUS
Maxwell Fraval, LLB, DO (UK), MOsteoSc(Paed), a British-trained, Australian osteopath, has worked to advance osteopathic understanding and practice for over 40 years. In addition to developing innovative approaches to the treatment of babies and children and contributing to research projects, he has taught and mentored generations of osteopathic practitioners. Beginning in the 1990s, Fraval and a dedicated group of colleagues pursued extensive study of the blood, vasculature, and heart. This journey began with clinical observations and the positive changes seen with osteopathic treatment. Since then, they have carried on with extensive research to gather scientific support for their observations. This path has culminated in the development of The Rule of the Artery courses taught internationally and the publication of Osteopathy Is in the Blood.
Osteopathy Is in the Blood is perfused with osteopathic wisdom. This important work presents new and perhaps unexpected knowledge about the blood and vascular system of vital importance to bodily function. Drawing upon cutting-edge science, biodynamic embryology, and perceptive insight, it presents a wealth of information to guide new approaches to treatment.
Many concepts, key to understanding how the cardiovascular system and movement of the blood works, are presented utilizing extensive visual aids and supporting research.
A few of the key concepts expounded in the book are:
The book draws on and synthesises the work of many innovative scientific thinkers, including Viktor Schauberger, Gerald Pollack, Francisco Torrent Guasp, Bjorn Nordenstrom, Irving Dardik, and Brian Freeman.
The in-depth research into these topics began as an attempt to draw upon scientific support for the clinical observations made by a dedicated group of osteopathic practitioners. And so, this text is aimed at integrating scientific principles with osteopathic practice, opening doors to very real and successful clinical applications.
These present-day scientific discoveries also serve to explain what practitioners feel, sense, experience, and work with in their osteopathic treatments. The inspiring thoughts and theories offered reveal completely new therapeutic possibilities for osteopaths to work with in the cardiovascular system and throughout the body.
Taken as a whole, the book documents and supports the scientific basis of the profound insights that Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of osteopathy, described 120 years ago. The research demonstrates that the founding principles of osteopathy are fully backed up by modern scientific understanding.
Osteopathy Is in the Blood is an invaluable reference text for all osteopaths, and it also serves as an essential companion to The Rule of the Artery courses offered around the globe. Studying these concepts will challenge osteopaths to think more deeply about and work more effectively with the blood and circulation, which is fundamental to exploring the full potential of all that osteopathy has to offer in the enhancement of health in our patients.
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Maxwell Fraval, LLB, DO (UK), MOsteoSc(Paed), a British-trained, Australian osteopath, has worked to advance osteopathic understanding and practice for over 40 years. In addition to developing innovative approaches to the treatment of babies and children and contributing to research projects, he has taught and mentored generations of osteopathic practitioners.
Beginning in the 1990s, Fraval and a dedicated group of colleagues have pursued extensive study of the blood, vasculature, and heart. This pursuit began with clinical observations and experiences they had with patients and the positive changes seen with osteopathic treatment. Since then, they carried on with extensive research to gather scientific support for their clinical observations. This path culminated in the development, by Fraval and his colleagues, of The Rule of the Artery courses which are taught internationally, and the publication of Osteopathy Is in the Blood.
Maxwell Fraval received his undergraduate osteopathic degree in England in 1978 and his masters' level degree in pediatric osteopathy in Australia in 1998. He has extensive additional training through post-graduate courses taken in Europe, Australia, and the US. He has been involved in osteopathic teaching throughout his career and in Australia he has been instrumental in the development of several teaching programs and helped found two teaching foundations.
In 2012 he established the Australian Research College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ltd. This is a non-profit public company with the mission of promoting and carrying out educational and research activities. Mr. Fraval has several published papers in osteopathic journals and has contributed chapters for two osteopathic textbooks.
Mr. Fraval is a leading scholar in osteopathic manipulative medicine in general and osteopathy in the cranial field in particular. He, along with his colleagues in Australia and New Zealand, has developed a unique and innovative understanding in his application of osteopathy. He will be sharing this osteopathic knowledge and skills with US physicians who will benefit by being able to incorporate these approaches into their own clinical practices for the benefit of their patients. In addition, many of the US physicians attending the course are themselves teachers in post-graduate education and several of them are faculty at various US colleges of osteopathic medicine. And so there will be significant opportunities for exchange between Mr. Fraval and US faculty from around the country. Another task for Mr. Fraval is to begin to develop a select group of physicians here in the US that can become specialized in this approach and continue a high level of teaching in this subject.
Mr. Fraval came to osteopathy via by way of a significant career change inspired by inner guidance, and he has been on a continuing journey of discovery into the benefits of osteopathic treatment ever since. It was through treating his baby son who had projectile vomiting that he became aware of the effectiveness of osteopathic care of babies and children. The osteopathic care of these young ones is for Maxwell an ongoing source of wonder at the strength of the response that can be achieved with these patients.
Mr. Fraval trained at the British School of Osteopathy and subsequently joined its Board of Governors. He also served on the board of the General Council of Registered Osteopaths. Maxwell began teaching undergraduates in the UK in 1979, and in 1985, after moving to Australia, he joined the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as a part-time lecturer. RMIT was the first university in Australia to run an osteopathic degree course. In 1993,
Mr. Fraval pioneered the first Osteopathic Pediatrics degree in Australia leading to a master’s degree at RMIT. The Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation of Australia and New Zealand, of which he is a founding member, was established in 1990 as a vehicle for teaching postgraduate courses. Since 2001, Maxwell has taught “Rule of the Artery” courses in Australia, NZ, USA, UK and several European countries.