Osteopathy has just been recognized but the sessions will still not be reimbursed by the social security. To practice osteopathy legally, it is no longer necessary to be a doctor. All that is needed now is an official diploma, recognized by the state. Patrick Clerc patient explains the benefits of osteopathy that replaces all possible medications. Images of a school where future practitioners learn to work with doctors alternate with images of a session. Bruno JOSSE, osteopath, stresses that a recognized training is a safety for patients.
Lyon va bientôt accueillir L'institut supérieur d'ostéopathie. Les étudiants y apprendront comment soigner toutes sortes d'affections par des manipulations du squelette. Bien que cette formation ne soit pas reconnue par le conseil de l'ordre des médecins, comme l'explique l'ostéopathe Jean Peyrière, l'ouverture de nouvelles écoles, et une formation de plus haut niveau peut permettre aux ostéopathes d'obtenir enfin une reconnaissance.
Osteopathy, a medicine without medicine that is only practiced with the hands, has many followers. But today anyone can be declared an osteopath without serious training. Johan Fautoux, a graduate osteopath, rebels against the insucient training of certain practitioners. On the other hand, at the European Centre for Higher Education in Osteopathy, students follow a six-year course that gives them serious knowledge. Raphaël Hauser, a sixth-year student, talks about the theoretical and practical teachings they receive there. As for Edouard-Olivier Renard, who teaches at this centre, he explains that if some mutuals reimburse sessions it is because they have identified the benefits of the discipline, unlike social security which does not reimburse patients.
In addition to traditional treatments, at the Victor Dupouy maternity ward in Argenteuil, osteopathy complements pediatrics to treat infants. Michèle BARROT, osteopath, treats a three-day-old baby suffering from torticollis under the loving eye of the mother. Osteopathy is however not recognized as a hospital discipline and the practitioner had to make her place within this maternity. Sylvianne Schillingford, midwife executive, attests to the benefits of her interventions that truly soothe newborns.
Dans son cabinet, Jean Paul DURET, ostéopathe explique comment fonctionne l'ostéopathie ainsi que ses gestes thérapeutiques à savoir palpation et manipulation. Le seul instrument de travail est la main. Cette thérapeutique naturelle, qui soigne sans faire appel aux médicaments, est fréquemment attaquée par les médecins allopathes.
Une patiente raconte pourquoi elle s'est tournée vers l'ostéopathie après avoir été traitée et déçue par la médecine allopathique. Elle se sent plus écoutée et considérée dans le cadre de cette thérapeutique naturelle.
Presentation of the principles and benefits of osteopathy, treating the causes rather than the effects, on the occasion of an open day at the A.T. Still academy in Marseille. This discipline, taught for fifteen years in France, places the practitioner as a kind of "mechanic of the human body". A practitioner, Jean Peyriere, explains what osteopathy can treat or cure.
While two osteopaths have been convicted for the illegal practice of medicine in Epinal, two visions clash according to the practitioners. Jacques Jaegle, member of the union of osteopathic doctors, considers that an osteopath, who must make a diagnosis before treating, must be a doctor. He even accuses some confreres of having an approach that tends towards esotericism. On the contrary, his colleague Denis Pajot does not claim the status of doctor, preferring to emphasize the specificity of osteopathy, the cranial respiratory movement.
Presentation of an osteopathy school in Marseille, the A.T. Still academy, whose five-year course is open to doctors and physiotherapists. Jacques Lesage, a physiotherapist and student at this school, explains how the learning of this discipline complemented his knowledge and enriched his practice. Although taught, this practice remains illegal in France. Jacques Barbaza, medical doctor considers that osteopathy comes to join the unofficial medicines that are complementary to allopathy.
Fourteen cases of euthanasia were confirmed at the Besançon hospital. Commentary on illustration images interspersed by interviews with Vincent MAUBERT, CFDT-CHU de Besançon, and Paulette GUINCHARD-KUNSTLER, PS deputy of Doubs. The medical examination that was requested by the courts has just been rendered. This is mainly end-of-life support, but also active euthanasia, with injection of product. So the case could be prosecuted. Vincent MAUBERT, from the CFDT of the CHU de Besaçon, explains that these are injections of products. It is unclear whether the families were involved in the decision. Only one filed a complaint. Paulette GUINCHARD-KUNSTLER, MP (PS) of Doubs, spoke on the subject. Through this affair the social debate on the end of life is revived, with on the one hand the non-intervention for the maintenance of life at all costs, on the other the active intervention by lethal injection. After a plateau return, the document is dedicated to a hospital resuscitation service. The commentary recalls the articles of law relating to the end of life. Dr François Lemaire, professor of medical resuscitation at the Henri Mondor (Créteil) hospital, clarifies the difference between non-intervention and euthanasia. The comment is conspicuous on the vagueness of the law which nowhere mentions the term euthanasia.
On the set of the program "Tea or coffee", the singer Lynda LEMAY speaks to Catherine CEYLAC about the periods of insomnia that she has known: "when we sleep two hours a night... for months or years it looks like a nervous depression". It’s a disease that’s in your head: you’re afraid you won’t sleep and you think about the consequences for the next day. We end up feeling a burden to the people around us".
The actor Alex METAYER explains to Michel FIELD how he went from anxious insomniac to an acceptance of this phenomenon. He thinks that there is a form of conditioning on what sleep is and as soon as one is "out of the norm" one is pointed at, from childhood. He believes that in many cases "it is much more an idea of sleep, I am not in the norm, than a sickly state".
The writer Eric Emmanuel SCHMITT explains that he has been an insomniac since the age of eight, following the death of his grandfather in his sleep. His parents had an unfortunate sentence: "your grandfather fell asleep forever". He does not accept sleep at night, he only accepts it for writing: he has micro-sleep when he writes and therefore has a "work bed" in his office. It has several beds: a bed to sleep and make love, a bed of work and a bed of insomnia.
Interviewed by Valérie EXPERT the songwriter and performer Didier BARBELIVIEN evokes his insomnia that appeared in his youth because he went out a lot. Since then he’s been using the night to write.
Jean d'ORMESSON interviews Jorge Luis BORGES at home. The poet and writer evokes his insomnia that inspired him the new "Funes el memorioso", "Funès ou la mémoire".
Micro-sidewalk in the streets of Paris: a schoolboy, a waiter, a vegetable saleswoman, a passerby and a truck driver say what they know and give their opinion on vitamins.
Dermatologist Marie BEJOT talks about the importance of vitamins E and F on the beauty of the skin and then explains the difference between polyvitamin and beauty vitamins. According to her, women gain 10 years of age by taking these vitamin supplements. The interview with Marie BEJOT is interspersed with a filmed sequence showing a young woman being photographed in Paris. Each photo inscribed on the screen a vitamin and its virtues.
On the plateau of "Vivre au présent" devoted to winter diseases, a doctor answers a letter from a viewer concerning the virtues of cod liver oil. This one aquiesce by explaining that the vitamin D contained in this oil is useful in winter because of the lack of sun at this time of the year. It also advises vitamin D in other forms.
At a symposium on vitamin C and its applications, a doctor explains the virtues of ascorbic acid on the human body. However, he does not think that vitamin C heals colds but helps improve immunity. According to him, taking vitamin C in high doses is not a health hazard.
Michel HAUTECOUVERTURE, head of endocrinology at the Saint Joseph Hospital in Paris, talks about the importance of vitamins for health. He talks about hemeralopia, retinal disease due to a lack of vitamin A and vitamin C essential to recover from, among other things, an infectious disease. In a pharmacy in the 5th arrondissement in Paris, a pharmacist explains the success of vitamin sales in self-medication.