Dr Joseph is the first and currently the only Korean osteopath, trained and registered in the UK. At first, he was advised to study ‘osteopathic medicine’ by his mentor who was one of the top 5 ENT surgeons in the UK but receiving osteopathic treatment for the neck pain. He attended the osteopathic college’s open day in London to know what is ‘osteopathy’ and was thrilled by its excellent treatment approach. Osteopathic medicine was not aimed to reduce the symptoms of the patients but focused on an individual ‘patient or person’ with the symptoms to manage the causes of the symptoms. It was an perfect patient-centred system.

 

During his internship at the clinic and hospital in London, he was amazed to see the effectiveness of the osteopathic treatments not only on musculoskeletal pain but also on most of the internal diseases such as ear infection, asthma, migraine, poor digestion, depression, etc. Indeed, osteopathic treatments applied on the external body structures which was created to support the internal physiological function helped lots of medical conditions.

 

For example, all his baby patients having ear infection had a great benefit from his treatment without using antibiotics. The treatment for the infection was to improve lymphatic circulation for better immune reaction by reducing the tension in the neck (effect on cervical lymph chain) and temporal bone of the skull (effect on eustachian tube). Then, he discusssed with baby’s parents to know the possible causes of the mild tension in the neck or skull. Somtimes, mom’s breastfeeding posture was found to be one possible cause of the ear infection and mucus congestion in the ear.

 

 

practitioner (osteopath) unique among NZ and Australian osteopaths in his holding doctoral (PhD) and master (MSc) degrees (Anatomy) from the Otago University School of Medical Sciences in addition to postgraduate diplomas in Occupational Health Practice (Otago) and in Biomechanics (Bioengineering Unit, Strathclyde University, Glasgow).

 

Active in university lecturing and formerly holding an Honorary Visiting Fellowship in Osteopathic Medicine at Victoria University, Melbourne, Dr McGrath is a Senior Editor for the Australasian Medical Journal (AMJ), and acts as a Sentinel Reader for the Health Information Research Unit, Clinical Relevance On-line Rating System at McMaster University in Canada, an established global centre of evidence-based medicine. He is also a long standing member of the editorial advisory board for the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (Int J Osteopath Med).

 

Christopher is a member of the New Zealand Pain Society, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists and the first osteopathic member of Friends of Science in Medicine. He is well published in research and professional journals.