The Coalition for Regulation of Manual Osteopathy in Ontario Website is Up

Website of the Coalition for the Regulation of Manual Osteopathy in Ontario (www.crmoo.org) is now up and running with a simple one page. More pages will be added soon. 

Ann Shivas Video

Osteopath, Ann Shivas, DOMP who practices in Montreal, Quebec is one of our best online students. Ann was a member of Canada's National Soccer team and a teacher before enrolling in the online osteopathy program of National Academy of Osteopathy.

She has treated cases where other osteopaths failed to treat. One of her cases (a massage therapist) became so impressed with her osteopathic skills that he enrolled at NAO to become an osteopath (in Quebec our graduates are called osteopaths. In other provinces they are called manual osteopaths or osteopathic manual practitioners).

Here is a video by Ann Shivas:

Satisfied Patient & Student

Online educated osteopath, Ann Shivas, DOMP a graduate of National Academy of Osteopathy and ex-member of Canada’s national soccer team treated Mark in Montreal (Quebec). There are many individuals who after receiving treatments from our alumni became our students. This demonstrates the osteopathic skills of our graduates. Here is the email received from Mark:

Hi Dr. Pourgol,

I just wanted to thank you for the incredible learning experience I had with NAO. You are definitely invested in your student's success and we feel it.

When it came time for me to look at schools offering manual Osteopathy as part of their curriculum, I did my due diligence and gathered objective evidence as part of my decision process. I not only researched various options but also communicated with graduates of the target schools and, whenever possible, had face-to-face meetings with representatives.

For NAO, I was lucky enough to have my initial face-to-face with Ann Shivas who took time out of her busy practice to answer all of my questions and put to rest any potential concerns I may have had. I subsequently followed up with Ann for a treatment and was so impressed with her approach and follow up that I decided to pursue a career in manual Osteopathy from NAO immediately thereafter.

Prior to Ann's treatment, I had received years of osteopathic manual therapy from a plethora of top practitioners trained both in Europe and Canada. After Ann's treatment, I not only considered her to be an impressive ambassador of NAO ...... but also my new benchmark of manual osteopathic excellence!

Some may consider my decision-making process to be a bit extreme, but I feel my years involved in the aerospace engineering industry has, to an extent, shaped who I am today. In the aerospace industry, to make mistakes is forgivable....but to catch them is imperative!

I can now say, with no reserve, that my research efforts paid off and that joining NAO in their DOMP program was one of the best investments in time, effort, and energy I have made to date.

All the best,

Mark MacNeil

Osteopathic Soft Tissue Therapy Class in Toronto

Professor Darren Wigginton and teaching assistant Rachel Orr supervising the osteopathic soft tissue therapy class of our students in Toronto.

Visceral Manipulation Class

Teaching assistant, Elias Abdel Ahad helping students in the visceral manipulation class.

Dr Eid teaching visceral techniques

Dr Eid, MD, DOMP, DO (Spain) teaching visceral manipulation to our students.

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NAO Students - August 2017

National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) students practicing osteopathic techniques at the York University Heights campus of NAO in Toronto.

MD Writes About Dr Pourgol

  National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) student from Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), Dr Doaa El Sammak, MD (Egypt) published this post on her FB page. Thx Doctor!! You made me so happy!

Dear Dr Shahin Pourgol, I really want to thank you for your great help and support you always show towards your students. I felt that you gave us all your whole experience with a very professional and honest way. You have an amazing personality and a loving Soul that influence all your students. Thank you for my amazing learning journey through this program and beautiful friendships I made during this training. We love osteopathy and we Love you too.

NAO practical technique class - August 2017

The osteopathic techniques practical class students of National Academy of Osteopathy at the York University Heights campus (121 Limestone Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   M3J 2R1).

NAO Student Opens Medical Marijuana Clinic

Registered nurse, Marisa Comacchia, RN, MBA, a student of National Academy of Osteopathy has opened Aleafia Total Health Network, a multidisciplinary wellness and health clinic, with family physicians, pharmacy, chiropractic, physiotherapy and osteopathic services onsite in Concord, Ontario (www.aleafiainc.com) at 8810 Jane Street. The clinic offers medical marijuana and other services for chronic pain patients.

This is the first time one of our alumni has opened a medical marijuana clinic.

We are also grateful that Marissa has just hired two graduates of National Academy of Osteopathy to work in this wellness clinic.

Miss North Ontario Pageant Winner Joins NAO

Osteopathic Education for athletes 

 

Osteopathy has become a popular career for athletes. A growing number of top Canadian athletes have become our alumni already. Osteopathy and sports go well together.

We wish to welcome certified athletic therapist Nichelle Kenzie (from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) to National Academy of Osteopathy. Nichelle is an exceptional athlete who has won a number of beauty pageants in Canada, including the 2012 Miss North Ontario Pageant and best talent Miss Teen Canada World 2012. 

 

 

Is it time to increase your fees?

While majority of manual osteopaths charge $80 to $140 per hour, we are seeing more and more alumni charging higher fees in Canada and abroad as per our request.

We reported before Dr Kenny Wong (physiotherapist/osteopath) in Malaysia charging $400 per hour for osteopathic care and Dr. Thomas Andrew (massage therapist/osteopath), an alumnus of National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) charging $400 for 90 minutes of osteopathic care in Bermuda. We have now been told that our alumna Dr Liza Egbogah (chiropractor/manual osteopath) is charging $270 per hour in downtown Toronto (Ontario, Canada). 

In our business lectures we went over how to effectively increase your fees. A small increase in your fees will not deter patients from utilizing your services. However even a small increase have a huge impact on your net profit, as your expenses remain the same. So any increase in service fees translate into profit.

Osteopathic Education for the hearing impaired

Due to our innovative advanced teaching methods, we have been able to introduce osteopathic education to the hearing and visually impaired individuals. Here is a post from Chanez Ouchene, a hearing impaired student (from Paris, France and now residing in Canada) of National Academy of Osteopathy on why she chose to study osteopathy with us:

"The art of gesture that relieves"

I have always loved the human body since childhood. I did not yet know what profession I will do. I knew one thing, that my handicap will make me barrage for certain trades. I have a disability: I'm deaf.

When I communicate with patients, the barrier is present, I read the lips of the patients and if I do not understand, we will either mime or we write on paper.

But thanks to this handicap, I have another sense that has developed: the touch and thanks to the touch, I manage to break the barrier that hangs between the patient and me.

Especially I can feel the body of the patient, his muscles, his bones.

It always requires much more effort, more concentration than a listener, but when this profession becomes a passion, one forgets all the difficulty of the handicap.

You feel stronger, you feel more helpful to help your patient.

What I also like about osteopathy is its originality of not using any medicine or instrument.
I looked for a school of osteopathy and the only school that seemed to me the best was NAO. I feel that this school is listening to each student and allows you to evolve to the maximum, and my handicap did not disturb them which seemed logical to go to them and I thank them very much for being able to make me discover this magnificent trade.