Mission
The Foundation for Osteopathic Scientific Research generates objective data about both the effect of osteopathic treatment as well as osteopathic hypotheses. The information obtained should lead to a better scientific basis and to an improvement of quality of the entire profession. Scientific basis is found by
- Organizing research
- Collection of scientific literature
Data is generated by
- Developing a tool for tracking the effect of treatment in osteopathic practice
- Collection of literature supporting or rejecting osteopathic hypotheses
Strategies
1. Organizing research:
- Self-creation of sound and useful research
- Approach scientists and research institutes and enthuse them for research into osteopathy
- Approach other professions for doing research
- Ask students to do part of a larger research in the context of their thesis
2. Collection of scientific literature
- Establish a database with relevant scientific literature
- Easy access to the literature for the osteopath
- Bringing to the attention of relevant literature to the osteopath
- Get published already done, appropriate research
3. Developing a tool for tracking the results
- By means of automatically tracking file results
- Collection of validated questionnaires for specific conditions
- Approach software providers to automatically process the data statistically
- Develop objective criteria for assessing the osteopathic actions