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.

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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.