Osteopathic Center for Children & Families

A Message From the Founder
by Viola Frymann, D.O., F.A.A.O., F.C.A.

(Viola M. Frymann D.O., F.A.A.O., F.C.A., has spent the majority of her professional life as a dedicated osteopathic physician practicing comprehensive osteopathy of the whole body including the cranial field. Her practice and training is internationally recognized.)

Looking Back at 2007

In February the O.C.C. trio of Peter Springall, Claude Valenti and myself presented a week-long course on the "Osteopathic Approach to Academic Problems" in Pescara, Italy, A very cooperative and responsive boy was the patient to demonstrate the changes. On the following day I was invited to Pescara's General Hospital and their premature babies' intensive care unit.

In April I had the pleasure of teaching once again at the Atman school in Cannes, famous for the film festival.

My recent overseas experience was in Berlin, Germany providing one lecture and two days of osteopathy for the orthodontic field. A very learned orthodontist contributed to the program on the first day. My "Collected Writings" has now been translated into German, and it was high in demand by the students. On my last evening there I visited "Check Point Charlie" the famous barrier between East and West Germany at the Brandenburg Gate and the Wall that was finally demolished in 1989. I was surprised to see how much of the wall still stands and much of the devastated part of the City in that district still remains in ruins so that no one will ever forget. The museum just opposite the guard post which still stands unchanged, provides a moving reminder of the suffering of that era that persisted so long as the "cold war", after the armistice of 1945.

Osteopathic teaching has continued in the United States as strongly as ever. I was a Visiting Clinician to A.Z.COM in January, then lecturing at the Cranial Academy Conference in Tucson. The O.C.C. completed both of their courses, "Expanding the Osteopathic Concept into the Cranial Field" Our Basic Cranial Course in August, and the Intermediate Course to "Dispel the Myths of Pediatric Osteopathy" in November with valuable contributions from Jon Aase M.D. Dysmorphologist, from University of New Mexico. Karyne Meade Ph.D. director of the SETI program of integrated sound therapy, and Claude Valenti, OD our Behavioral Optometrist and the Master Class in Traditional Osteopathy at the MSCOM in Chicago in July.

Coming in 2008

There is to be an historic celebration in London of "Osteopathy 2008", the 110 years from the founding of the British School of Osteopathy and 10 years since the formation of the General Osteopathic Council that licenses and recognizes a D.O. who passes rigorous tests to meet their demanding standards. I intend to be present for this most significant piece of osteopathic history.

May you have a wonderful, healthy and blessed 2008.

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