Chantal Morin

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS · School of Rehabilitation

Background: The practice of osteopathy differs around the world. However, the dominant practice is that of manual therapy interventions guided by assessment of the neuromusculoskeletal system. Patient populations treated by osteopaths vary across the lifespan and include groups with more-nuanced care requirements such as those who are pregnant. The...

Contexte : Bien que la pratique fondée sur les preuves ("evidence-based practice" ou EBP) soit aujourd'hui adoptée et recommandée largement chez les professionnels de santé, son application en pratique clinique et dans l'enseignement demeure largement discutée au sein de la communauté ostéopathique. Objectif : L'objectif de cette étude a été d'expl...

Osteopathic healthcare education has traditionally existed based on clinicians' opinions and supported by anatomical, physiological, and biomechanical models that seemed credible given the evidence available at the time of their initial development. Nowadays, researchers in the discipline are highlighting their difficulties in supporting the explan...

Osteopaths are expected to keep up to date with research evidence relevant to their clinical practice and to integrate this knowledge with their own experience and their patients' values and preferences. One of the potential challenges when engaging with research is to make sense of it, to decide if it is trustworthy, and if it is applicable to the...

Contexte : Avec l’émergence de la pratique éclairée, les cliniciens s’engagent à donner du sens à la recherche, de décider si elle est digne de confiance et si elle est appli‐ cable à la nature complexe de leur pratique clinique. Ceci est rendu plus difficile par l’exposition croissante à la désin‐ formation (délibérée ou non) et aux extrapolations...

Background Despite the increasing use of osteopathy, a manipulative complementary and alternative medicine therapy, in the general population, its efficacy continues to be debated. In this era of evidence-based practice, no studies have previously reviewed the scientific literature in the field to identify published knowledge, trends and gaps in em...

The trusted role and professional standing that osteopaths have with their patients and within their wider communities requires that the information and messages they communicate are informed by and congruent with current evidence, public health guidance and scientific consensus. This expectation is even more critical during the covid-19 pandemic,...

Background Remedial education is crucial to help struggling students meet the complex requirements of health sciences curriculum. For this reason, a remediation process was developed by the Centre ostéopathique du Québec (COQ) for students enrolled in its osteopathic training program. This remedial process focuses on four axes that represent the fo...

Background: The World Health Organization benchmarks for osteopathic training consider cranial osteopathy as an important manual skill. Studies of cranial manual therapy have exhibited poor reliability. The aim of this study was to investigate the inter-rater reliability of the manual mobility tests of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis (SOS), and...

L’otite moyenne aiguë (OMA) est une des infections les plus fréquentes chez le jeune enfant. Bien que le dysfonctionnement de la trompe d’Eustache soit un élément central de sa physiopathologie, les facteurs de risque de l’OMA sont nombreux. D’un point de vue anatomique, l’os temporal perturbé dans son positionnement pourrait nuire à l’évacuation d...

Malgré la popularité croissante de l’ostéopathie, la collaboration interprofessionnelle (CIP) entre les médecins et les ostéopathes est un phénomène relativement nouveau et encore peu étudié. L’étude mixte séquentielle explicative présentée vise à : 1) décrire la situation actuelle au Québec en termes de collaboration entre les médecins et les osté...

Osteopathy is a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that is growing in popularity. Increasing numbers of parents are seeking pediatric osteopathic care in addition to conventional medical care. Information about the development of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between these practitioners is scarce. This explanatory sequential mixed...

Abstract Background Osteopathy is an increasingly popular healthcare approach that uses a wide variety of therapeutic manual techniques to address pain and somatic dysfunction. In Quebec, Canada, osteopathy is the complementary medicine most often recommended by family physicians. However, factors fostering the development of interprofessional coll...

Background Communication between osteopaths and conventional practitioners is an important pillar of efficient interprofessional collaboration. This study aimed to explore empirically when, why, and how osteopaths and physicians involved with pediatric patients communicate in order to identify key challenges and formulate recommendations to improve...

In the last two decades, osteopathy has gained interest among the general population as well as among the scientific community. To better understanding publishing on this topic, we conducted a bibliometric analysis to describe the scientific production of empirical studies on osteopathic interventions, analyze its trends, and identify research gaps...

Background: Manual therapy approaches use palpation to determine dysfunctions, apply effective treatments and monitor patient evolution. However, reliability of palpation is generally poor. Osteopathy is one of the manual therapies that struggle to establish good inter-examiner reliability for cranial palpatory diagnostic. Objectives: This study ai...

Background: To achieve successful interprofessional collaboration, health professionals need trust one other’s competencies and understand one other’s values. In Quebec, increasing numbers of parents are seeking paediatric osteopathic care in addition to conventional medical care. Objectives: This study explored enablers and barriers to the develop...

Introduction : L’ostéopathie est une des médecines alternatives et complémentaires connaissant une popularité croissante au Québec, notamment pour la clientèle pédiatrique. Dans le contexte de création d’un ordre des ostéopathes par l’Office des professions du Québec, une meilleure connaissance du profil de pratique des ostéopathes est essentielle....

Introduction. Le manque de ressources est régulièrement ciblé comme la source des problèmes des systèmes de la santé, y compris en ergothérapie. Pourtant, l’ajout de ressources ne se traduit pas nécessairement par une satisfaction accrue des clients à l’égard des interventions. Puisque le choix de ces interventions repose sur le raisonnement cliniq...

Background Osteopathy is an increasingly popular health care modality to address pain and function in the musculoskeletal system, organs and the head region, as well as functional somatic syndromes. Although osteopathy is recommended principally in guidelines for management of back pain, osteopaths' scope of practice is wide, albeit poorly defined....

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Introduction. Occupational therapists (OT) frequently advocate for increased resources to improve their interventions. Although the choice of interventions is determined by clinical reasoning (CR), the link between available resources and CR is often neglected. Objective. To synthesize current knowledge about the link between available resources (h...

Palpation skills are fundamental in osteopathy because they affect clinical results. However, palpation is a complex task that requires the right combination of knowledge, skills, and attitude thus making it a real challenge to teach. This article describes a seven-step palpation method that promotes the development of palpation skills by gradually...

Eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction plays an important role in the pathogenesis of acute otitis media (AOM). Unfortunately, there is a lack of knowledge about the exact role of the ET’s bony support, the temporal bone, on occurrence of AOM. This study investigates whether severe suture restriction of the temporal bone is a risk factor for development...

Collaboration as a path to professional research: advantages and challenges for osteopath researchers based on two recent experiences in Canada What could be a plausible path to conducting professional research? This question must be addressed to ensure the development of clinical research in osteopathy. Two Canadian osteopaths have recently experi...