CRMO accepted by Equitable Life Insurance

We wish to congratulate College of Registered Manual Osteopaths (Canada) for being accepted by Equitable Life of Canada insurance company.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/755882538224976/?type=3&theater 

Johnston Group

Johnson Group (Chamber of Commerce Group Insurance) requested registered osteopathic manual practitioners to write their titles on the receipt they issue for osteopathic care to their policy holders.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/773840813095815/?type=3&av=136411743039484&eav=AfbtH382rMA8RAZhSxWU4Wwd8SD8otd_es7d5dTa_tb7C82-ZTSBlws2MEb2mv9J4PU&theater 

Osteopathy Regulation

This video gives information about the Coalition for the Regulation of Manual Osteopathy in Ontario (CRMOO) and the manual osteopathy regulatory process in Ontario and across Canada.

A Brief introduction to the Osteopathy Chronic Pain Clinics of Canada

With 333 clinics in 30 countries, the non-profit Osteopathy Chronic Pain Clinics of Canada (OCPCC) is the largest privately owned chronic pain clinic in the world.

Does NAO offer diploma or degree programs?

National Academy of Osteopathy (NAO) is a private Canadian college of osteopathy, with a campus at York University Heights. NAO is not registered as a university and it does not offer any degree programs. NAO only offers diploma and certificate programs in the field of manual osteopathy. None of NAO programs lead to any degrees in osteopathy. NAO programs are not part of any degree programs. 

NAO president, manual osteopath, Dr Shawn Pourgol, MBA, DC, DO, PhD is founder of three universities (National University of Medical Sciences) in USA, Spain and Panama (the one in Panama is not yet operational). NAO is not affiliated with these universities. NAO and these three universities are registered independently of each other in different countries. NAO is operational since 2010. NUMSS (Spain) since 2012. NUMSS (USA) since 2016 and NUMSS (Panama) was registered in 2018 but it is not yet operational. 

Being a student of NAO will not offer an easier way to enrol in any programs offered by these universities. NAO alumni who are interested in applying to any of the degree programs offered by these universities must contact them directly and fulfill their admission requirements. NAO has no information on the degree programs offered by these universities and these universities do not operate at NAO campus in Toronto. The practical technique classes of these universities are located in Panama. 

NAO Student Infected with COVID-19

We were saddened to hear a few days ago that one of our osteopathy students, massage therapist Lavinia Rusu and her teenage child in Georgia, USA have now the COVID-19. She got the infection by a friend who visited her.
She and her child have passed 11 days and are on their way to recovery (thanks God!).
Here is a short video she made about her ordeal.
https://youtu.be/gwiJmkQ3qck

This is a fact of life now. Just now US passed China and Italy with the most number of COVID-19 in the world.
Please stay safe.
God bless.

Thank you NURSES!

Thank you nurses! Thank you doctors! Thank you all the health professionals who run the hospitals! You deserve to get paid more!

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Free Access to Advanced Cranial Osteopathy Course

I have asked National Academy of Osteopathy Canada to give free access to our advanced cranial osteopathy course to my students.

You will have three months to watch the video lectures.

NAO will email alumni with the user ID and password for the online video server.

Please stay safe. Please stay positive. Please enjoy your life. Science and humanity will overcome this health crisis. I am 100% sure of it.

I love you and I pray for you everyday.

God bless.

Dr Shawn Pourgol, MBA, DC, DO, PhD
NAO president

Thank you CANADA!

$1250 per month help for students.
$9 billion fund has been approved for students which includes $75 million to increase support specifically for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Nation students.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trudeau-announces-9-billion-to-help-postsecondary-students-and-recent-graduates-during-coronavirus-155811704.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb

Manion Wilkins

Info regarding online (virtual) manual osteopathic care by CRMO:

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/848142775665618/?type=3&theater

Johnston Group Insurance

We were informed by Johnston Group that handles Chambers of commerce group benefits that they cover one on one virtual (online) sessions with a registered manual osteopath.

💟Thank you Canada! 💟

Canada will help pay 75% of the commercial rent of some COVID-19 affected businesses.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/04/24/justin-trudeau-announces-program-to-lower-commercial-rents-by-75.html?fbclid=IwAR0KKdB6CgOOsJY_spoLDuk4YIzErJYKipFSmMWLI_4Z-mt0JqzIAUN_URI 

High Income Career for HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES

National Academy of Osteopathy Canada is the only accredited school of osteopathy in Canada offering a DOMP program for high school graduates.
This video explains why NAO decided to accept high school graduates.

Alumni: Please Ensure You Have Enough PPE

Manual osteopathy clinics will soon open in stage 2 across Canada. Please ensure you stock up on personal protection supplies for your clinic.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/856633391483223/?type=3&theater

Osteopath needed

A clinic owner asked National Academy of Osteopathy to post this. We have no info about this. Please call him directly. Thx.
Osteopath needed for a huge center in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) For more information contact me on whatsapp +96170644564

Empire Life Insurance Company

Congratulations to the College of Registered Manual Osteopaths (Canada) for their tireless work in getting insurance coverage for registered manual osteopaths in Canada.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/863403480806214/?type=3&theater

Benecaid

Congratulations to the College of Registered Manual Osteopaths (Canada) for getting accepted by Benecaid. This allows registered manual osteopaths receive payments for manual osteopathic care they provide to Benecaid policyholders.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/865405013939394/?type=3&theater

Alberta Blue Cross

Claims received by Alberta Blue Cross for manual osteopathic care provided by Registered manual osteopaths (RMOs) practicing in Alberta will be evaluated per claim.
Alberta Blue Cross does not have an approved provider list.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/870659466747282/?type=3&theater

A Beautiful Letter from Alexandra

💟 A beautiful letter from Alexandra Wilson, a National Academy of Osteopathy students in Fredericton, New Brunswick (Canada): 💟 

Dr. Pourgol,

…... I would like to share something that I am very proud of with my NAO studies. ….... There's not a SINGLE female manual osteopath in the entire city of Fredericton, NB ......….I feel so lucky to have found NAO, and to be able to make people's lives better.

Thank you so much for opening National Academy of Osteopathy; I am positive I will be successful because such little advertising already filled my extra time... with my attitude, I know I can build a practice quickly and successfully.

In a way, you have also inspired a friend of mine. Your business and ethics lectures have been helping to build me up as a person, in becoming business smart AND in lifting people up, through your advice and encouragement... qualities which I have been using.

I was able to help convince my friend she has a future, if she stays alive, and she even decided to return to college through the love and wisdom I have absorbed from your lectures. The statements you mentioned from the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland" about knowing where to go were extremely helpful for her (she didn't watch the videos, of course, I just reiterated the wisdom).

Please excuse my boldness, but thanks where thanks is due is advice my grandfather always gave to me. I am seeing how much good I can learn from your lectures (I initially thought these lectures were pointless time fillers.... but I was very, VERY mistaken -- it is the knowledge of conscientious success).

Please continue to expand NAO throughout the world so others can learn to help people through osteopathy and your wisdom. I hope you can excuse my possibly too-enthusiastic feelings. They're unbecoming from a stranger, but I see you every day, so you are not much of a stranger to me.

COVID-19 Surcharge

The College of Registered Manual Osteopaths (www.manualosteopaths.org) policy in regards to COVID-19 Surcharge to recover PPE costs.

https://www.facebook.com/manualosteopaths/photos/a.634319323714632/871333503346545/?type=3&theater 

Ontario Alumni Should Read This

Dear Ontario based alumni:

As of now manual osteopaths are not permitted to re-open their clinics in Ontario. We are confident that in early to mid-June 2020, they will be permitted to re-open.

The College of Registered Manual Osteopaths (Canada) has requested its members to read the following file published by the Ontario Ministry of Health for all health practitioners to familiarize themselves with what is required by the Ontario government.

Please click on the link below to read the file to ensure you are ready and compliant with what is requested and mandatory. Please start buying (if you have not already done so) enough personal protective equipment (PPE) to ensure you, your staff and patients are safe and protected while you are working.
 
The link is:
https://files.constantcontact.com/ae8f73ee001/836b6215-e085-47b9-b32b-051c34ba0d61.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3bCGEGm6d9reqhjv2nHdNe_a_hoTh92Lr68B8qAuTkGRbGsjiP8kxWjWo 

Professors Dr Hussein Eid, MD (Egy), DOMP

Professors Dr Hussein Eid, MD (Egy), DOMP and Dr Hossein Khorrami, PhD, DOMP teaching visceral techniques of osteopathy at the York University Heights campus of National Academy of Osteopathy in Toronto.
NAO has more technique instructors than any other school of osteopathy in Canada. — with Hussein Eid at York University Heights, Toronto, Ontario. 

Professors Caitlin Morrissey

Professors Caitlin Morrissey, DOMP, Amir Kazemi, BSc, DOMP, DO (Spain), and Hossein Khorrami, PhD, DOMP teaching osteopathic soft tissue therapy at the York University Heights campus of National Academy of Osteopathy. — with Caitie Elizabeth at York University Heights, Toronto, Ontario. 

Osteopathic Psychosomatic Release Technique

Did you know we are the only college in Canada teaching osteopathic psychosomatic release technique?

Professor Elias Abdel-Ahad teaches osteopathic psychosomatic release at the York University Heights campus of National Academy of Osteopathy in Toronto. — in York University Heights. 

Love for National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada)

Dr Pourgol received a message from one of our Canadian students, Dr Ali Haghighi, DOMP, BSc (Ost), DO (Spain), a graduate of diploma in osteopathic manual practice of National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada).


"Hi dear Dr Pourgol:
I am currently in Costa Rica on vacation. This photos was taken in CoCo beach. 😄
Yesterday I've got an email that I successfully graduated from the Program!
I would like to thank you for this opportunity. I really love NAO. 🙏🙏🙏❤❤"

— at Coco Beach, Costa Rica.  

Can NAO alumni join ACMA?

There are many NAO (Canada) alumni who are ACMA members. The Canadian Alliance of Alternative Medicine - L’Alliance Canadienne de Médecine Alternative (ACMA) is a Quebec based national association accepted by most Canadian extended health plan insurers for manual osteopathic care reimbursement across Canada. 

Can NAO alumni join CRMO?

College of Registered Manual Osteopaths (Canada) is a national Indigenous Peoples osteopathic association based in Thornhill, Ontario. There are many NAO alumni who are CRMO members and are now registered manual osteopaths (RMO). Osteopathy has roots in Cherokee and Shawnee tribes healing arts and bodywork. As such osteopathy is considered a heritage of Indigenous Peoples. CRMO is the first and only Indigenous Peoples osteopathic association in Canada. CRMO is accepted by many extended health plan insurers in Canada. CRMO issues the title of RMO - Registered Manual Osteopath to its members. 

Our First Clinic in Washington, USA

We are happy to announce that the Osteopathy Chronic Pain Clinics of Canada has now a location in the city of Vancouver in Washington, USA. We now have 329 clinics in 30 countries to serve you.

Osteopathic manual practitioner / licensed massage therapist Shanna Arno, CYT, CSIT, LMT, DOMP, NBW is the health professional in this clinic.

Shanna is a graduate of the diploma in osteopathic manual practice (DOMP) of National Academy of Osteopathy in Canada.

To make an appointment with her please contact OCPCC at 1-800-359-1187 or info@osteopathypainclinic.com. You can also contact her directly at the email/phone number given below.

13912 NE 20th Ave, Suite 105
Vancouver, Washington, USA 98686
360-694-9726
naturalbodyworks@msn.com

— at Vancouver, Wash.  

Professor Amir Kazemi

Professor Amir Kazemi, BSc, DOMP, DO (Spain) teaching osteoarticular techniques at York University Heights campus of NAO in Toronto. — in York University Heights. 

Professor Enza Panzeca

Professor Enza Panzeca teaching cranial osteopathy at the York University Heights campus of NAO in Toronto. — in York University Heights.  

The DOG!

We love this dog who attended National Academy of Osteopathy graduation day this Saturday at our York University Heights campus! 💟 — with Amir Kazemi and Hossein Khorrami in York University Heights. 

ICBC Osteopathy Coverage

Our alumni informed us that the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) which is the main and only government appointed auto insurer in BC now covers manual osteopathic care with a referral from a family physician or general practitioner for those patients who are injured in a motor vehicle accident.

RIP Joshua

I cannot stop crying. This broke my heart. Someone so young, so energetic, so kind, taken away so early.
I and the rest of National Academy of Osteopathy staff and faculty members are deeply saddened by the passing away of Josh Roth one of our current students who was at NAO campus about two weeks ago.
He will be truly missed and I will include him in my daily prayers.
Dr Shawn Pourgol

NUMSS (Spain) Scholarship for NAO Alumni Cancelled

For the past eight years the DOMP graduates of National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) received 100% guaranteed scholarships of up to 7,500 EURO to study at National University of Medical Sciences (Spain).

As of May 25, 2020 this scholarship has been cancelled and it is no longer available to NAO alumni. 

💟Million Dollar Osteopathy Clinic in Trinidad & Tobago!💟

Dr Pourgol made a video a few days ago for manual osteopaths who are not his students on how to set up a million dollar manual osteopathy clinic.

He was pleasantly surprised to hear from one of his students Dr Randy Nagir, who represents Osteopathy Chronic Pain Clinics of Canada in the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago that he now owns a million dollar clinic in that island. This is what he wrote:

"Already a million dollar clinic two years in a row, after graduating in 2017, all praise to my God Yahweh Elohim and to the NAO and CRMO team, and a special thank you to Dr. Pourgol, may God continue to guide and bless him and his family."

We are grateful to Dr Nagir for the kind words. 💟

NAO Student #4 in Arnold Classic 2020!

National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) student Jodii Fox, has placed in the top 4 of Arnold Classic 2020 in USA today.
We hope tomorrow she will be chosen #1!
Best wishes Jodi! 

NAO Policy Change

Effective immediately the two weeks osteopathy practical technique classes of National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) are available only to NAO students.

We no longer accept students from other schools for the two weeks on-site practical osteopathy technique classes and it is no longer offered as a continuing education program to the students of National University of Medical Sciences (Spain) and National University of Medical Sciences (USA).

The two universities mentioned above now offer their own practical technique classes in Panama.