{"id":111,"date":"2018-09-21T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:57:22","slug":"farewell-leon-chaitow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/2018\/09\/21\/farewell-leon-chaitow\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Leon Chaitow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The announcement of the death of Dr. Leon Chaitow is news of the passing of a giant. The British Osteopath was a leading voice in manual therapy for decades. He was the first osteopath appointed by the British government to a medical practice and he was the Editor-in-Chief of our profession\u2019s only peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies<\/i><\/a>. He wrote more than 70 brilliant books and spoke around the world at schools and conferences of osteopathy, chiropractic, physical therapy, and massage therapy.<\/p>\n

While SSMT has hosted some top names in our continuing education program, I am sorry to say we never brought Dr. Chaitow to Sarasota. I did see him speak in 2007 at the first Fascia Research Congress<\/em><\/a>, which he helped organize, bringing the world\u2019s top fascial scientists to Harvard Medical School to present their research to bodyworkers. He was an inspiring, eloquent, educated voice for manipulative medicine.<\/p>\n

SSMT instructor and continuing education provider Chris Dux was fortunate to study Muscle Energy Techniques with Dr. Chaitow. While I never completed any formal training with him, I feel like I know and learned much from Dr. Chaitow through his writings and that brief moment in Boston sitting in an auditorium listening to him speak. I wonder how many others who never met him also credit him as one of their teachers. Thank you Dr. Chaitow, for a life of tremendous contribution.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The announcement of the death of Dr. Leon Chaitow is news of the passing of a giant. The British Osteopath was a leading voice in manual therapy for decades. He was the first osteopath appointed by the British government to a medical practice and he was the Editor-in-Chief of our profession\u2019s only peer-reviewed journal, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasotaschoolofmassagetherapy.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}