Chris Batten DO MICO - Director of education of the Institute of Classical Osteopathy
Christopher Batten graduated in 1989 from the Maidstone College of Osteopathy under the tutorage of the late John Wernham. He taught pathology, osteopathic principles and the applied mechanics of the spine and pelvis at the Maidstone College of Osteopathy from 1991.
From 1991-93 he taught at The John Wernham International Academy of Classical Osteopathy at St. Joris-Weert, just outside Leuven in Belgium. There he taught regularly on their undergraduate program until moving there for a full-time position between 1992 and 1993, teaching and running the busy undergraduate clinic.
The year 2000 saw Chris made Co-Chairman of the ICO and wrote its Newsletter, later taking over the running of the Postgraduate course, under John Wernham. He has subsequently become the Secretary of the ICO and is the current Director of Education.
In addition to his ICO duties, he now has a life of the traveling lecturer, teaching at various venues through Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia
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About The @Institute of Classical Osteopathy is a registered charity, it was established in 1956 by the late John Wernham and T.E. Hall.
Its aims are to:
* Preserve, explore and develop the osteopathic concept and philosophy as formulated by A.T. Still and further interpreted by J.M. Littlejohn.
* Help the postgraduate osteopath gain a deeper understanding of the anatomical and physiological relationship of body mechanics to health and disease and how that knowledge may be applied clinically to enable a precise diagnosis and safe treatment.
* Provide mentored postgraduate training in classical osteopathy in the UK and throughout the world.
* Bring together and support members of the osteopathic profession worldwide who follow a classical approach.
* The Institute maintains its role by running postgraduate courses, workshops and conferences to help osteopaths interpret and apply classical osteopathic concepts.
If you want to study our Diploma Course in Classical Osteopathy and broaden your scope of osteopathy, you can visit our website [ Ссылка ] or email to icofrontdesk@gmail.com
The Institute of Classical Osteopathy is run by Registered Charity Number 1020193 to promote Classical Osteopathy, this is why our main sources of income are donations and annual subscription fees in order to provide postgraduate courses, conferences, workshops, book/video edition
Where your money will go:
1) Provide affordable postgraduate courses in Classical Osteopathy so Classical Osteopathy can remain as an option for new students to learn about.
2) Organize annual International Conference so we can keep spreading the Principles and Concepts of Classical Osteopathy. To invite ICO and worldwide recognize Osteopaths, Researches and speakers that can help to increase deep understanding of the theoretical concepts of Osteopathy.
3) Editing new books and videos for the benefit of those that want to keep learning Classical Osteopathy practice and theory.
4) Provide affordable treatments in our student mentoring clinic in north London
A regular donation or single donations will really help our small team to achieve the goal of sustainable teaching. – thank you!
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