Word: osteopathic
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Robin, 35, is the go-to guy among Parisian stars and fashionistas for hair-color treatments (he is also the brains behind Preference, L'Oréal Paris' popular hair-color line). Now, thanks to a new collaboration with skin specialist Joëlle Ciocco, pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez, osteopath Grégor Schultze, makeup artist Mina Matsumura and vintage expert Dorothy Barrick, Robin and his business partner Hélène Limoges are opening the doors to Autour de Christophe Robin, a three-story beauty space in Paris' 6th arrondissement...
...clearly as Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss, which is now available in paperback (Warner Books; $14.95). Nothing about the book is earth shattering. The advice is pretty standard. It's the pictures that will really grab your attention. In essence, what Howard Shapiro, a New York City osteopath with a thriving weight-control practice, has done is to demonstrate photographically the food advice he gives his patients. Through these pictures, Shapiro shows how you can eat a lot of very tasty and satisfying food without gaining weight if you learn to choose the stuff that...
...noted that he founded a nontraditional medical treatment called craniosacral therapy that is designed to free restrictions in the circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord. In so doing, Dr. Upledger built upon the work of Dr. William Sutherland, an early 20th century osteopath, who theorized that the bones of the skull remain mobile in adulthood and developed a treatment to improve their mobility...
Probably the only thing most people care to know about their gurgling inner organs is that they are functioning properly. But for Jean-Pierre Barral, an osteopath practicing in Grenoble, France, the body's vital viscera are like a beautifully complicated timepiece, each part in subtle but perpetual motion relative to the others. "In a single day, your internal organs move 30,000 times," he says. "Your liver alone travels 600 meters...
...1950s, he once performed an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane with the help of an onshore surgeon who guided him by radio. "To the best of my knowledge," he says, "no one's done that before or since." Today Upledger, 69, keeps on setting precedents. An osteopath by training, he is the founder of a form of nontraditional medicine called craniosacral therapy that is rapidly gaining adherents...