Cerebral Palsy research project

The Osteopathic Centre for Children in London has joined the Peninsula
Medical School here in Exeter and UCL's Great Ormond Street's
Hospital for Children in London to research the value of cranial osteopathy in treating
children with cerebral palsy. We're very pleased to part of this
undertaking in the south west, with colleagues in Torbay and Plymouth.
Cerebra, the charity for children with cerebral palsy, is providing the funds for this project. For more information on Cerebra go to: http:// www.cerebra.org.uk/
For more information on the research project go to UCL's press release: http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/pressoffice/pressrelease_00483

Our new man

 David Stainer-Smith has joined us recently.
His interests in rugby and other extreme sports 
will obviously fill a gap...

Colin Crewdson.
Colin in his study, not looking studious.




 

Warwick Downes.
Warwick, pictured here looking sceptical in the kitchen, has another life in the world of music and dance.

 

Osteopathic partners

Paul Thompson perching on his desk.  Paul has
the comfy room, with tv, music and loads of toys.

 

more of us..

Occasional visitors to our clinic are Chloe the lurcher (shown here) and Bonnie, the Scottish terrier. They find life in the clinic a bit dull.

I didn't mention Rose in my last entry! How could I forget?
Rose Pell is a counsellor who works with us on an ad hoc basis, mostly with
clients who've suffered trauma in road accidents. For more information on Rose's work go to /www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/dcsc/educadvi/roadsupport.htm
(If the link doesn't work copy and paste on to your browser.)

Birthday

Our clinic is 21 years old this autumn.  So perhaps birth day is wrong; nothing else sounds right.
Colin Crewdson established the clinic in a basement room in Boxall & Freeman's orthodontic 
practice in Richmond Road, near the clocktower in Exeter, sharing the lower two floors

with Brian and Penny Brown, chiropodists and podiatrists.  A modest start in the autumn of 1985, but there are one or two patients who have remained with us  since those (perforce)  relaxed days.

Changes to the clinic occurred gradually, a move upstairs (perhaps a little too close to the overhead loos), teaming up with other practitioners (Dr Peter Bissen - homeopathy, Erica Read - postural integration, Cathy Jenkins - hypnotherapy) and eventually with other osteopaths 
(Warwick Downes and Sharon McDaid).

In 1995 Colin, Warwick and Sharon joined forces with Jennie Dallas and Simon King, who run the Clinic of Chinese Medicine, to take on space in BBC Radio Devon's premises on St David's Hill, where we still work. A few personnel changes have ocurred since then, naturally: Colin and Warwick have been joined by osteopaths Paul Thompson (our third partner) and David Stainer-Smith. Other colleagues are Lorraine Findlay (homeopath), Angie Avis (counsellor and psychotherapist), and our invaluable receptionists Suzie Brown and Sue Ebanks.  Jennie and Simon in the Chinese Clinic remain the other pillar in our establishment.