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Manual osteopath & registered massage therapist Grace So, RCRT, RMT, DOMP seen in the photos below is one of our 45 instructors. Our DOMP program, with over 2260 hours of education is one of the most in-dept osteopathy programs in Canada. Our DOMP is applied,......
There are a number of schools in Canada offering 3 to 5 years osteopathy programs but their total teaching hour ranges between 300 to 1500 hours as they teach one weekend a month, 6 months per year. NAO graduates can join the College of Registered......
My National Academy of Osteopathy student Gina Faubert sent me this beautiful gift basket of Italian goodies! I am grateful for this show of love. God bless you Gina. You brought joy to my heart and food to my tummy! Dr. Shawn Pourgol, MBA,......
We are honored that Marcelo Casal, the Rehabilitation Specialist for Toronto FC has enrolled in the DOMP program we offer at National Academy of Osteopathy. Osteopathy has become quite popular with athletes and those who treat athletes. We have a number of alumni who are......
We wish to congratulate National Academy of Osteopathy student, Dr. Ann Shivas, PhD, MT, DOMP for publishing her first book, now on sale on Amazon. Dr Shivas is an ex member of the Canada’s National Soccer Team. She currently lives in New Zealand but continues......
We have many Ukrainians as students, including manual osteopath, Kateryna Derun, a Ukrainian Olympic Athlete who just graduated from the diploma in osteopathic manual practice (DOMP) program of National Academy of Osteopathy. We pray for all our students, their loved ones and all affected individuals......
National Academy of Osteopathy DOMP graduates who have a degree in naprapathy can now bill Canadian extended health plan insurers for manual osteopathy as well as naturotherapy if they are a member of the Quebec based national association, the Canadian Alliance of Alternative Medicine (ACMA).......
Congratulations to the College of Registered Manual Osteopaths for getting registered manual osteopaths accepted by the Medavie Blue Cross in Canada. This is a big achievement for RMOs....
The College of Registered Manual Osteopaths received the following statement from Alberta Blue Cross Insurance Company in regards to reimbursement for manual osteopathic care provided by Registered Manual Osteopaths (RMOs): “Alberta Blue Cross does not have an approved provider list, we simply verify the credentials......
Congratulations to National Academy of Osteopathy student, Jaime Evans for receiving the 2021 Newfoundland and Labrador’s Organization of Women Entrepreneurs (NLOWE) Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. National Academy of Osteopathy graduates successful manual osteopaths because our students receive over 250 business management lectures by......
If your employer (which it can be your own incorporated clinic) pays 25% of the NAO tuition, and if the program is used to upgrade your education in your own field, then the Canada government pays a grant for 75% of the tuition plus cost......
We are happy to announce that Iranian/German/Canadian Bodybuilder, Pedram Dadollahi is now studying osteopathy at the York University Heights campus of National Academy of Osteopathy in Canada. Pedram was the 2018 Bodybuilding champion in Canada as well as #5 in the world. Osteopathy is becoming......
Dr Gaurav Singra, MD, DOMP, DO, DN (candidate) who studied at National Academy of Osteopathy has founded the first ever osteopath owned multispecialty hospital in India. The hospital has its own department of osteopathy. A department of naprapathy will be added in 2022. The hospital......
Dr Gaurav Singra, MD, DOMP, DO, DN (candidate), a graduate of the National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) is opening up a multispecialty hospital in India with its own Department of Osteopathy. This is the first time in history a manual osteopath has become owner of......
NAO wishes to congratulate the Osteopathy Association of Panama – Asociación de OsteopatÃa de Panamá for being registered in Panama as of August 10, 2021. One of the mandates of this association is to regulate the profession of osteopathy in Panama and become its licensing authority....
It was so nice to meet one of my students yesterday. Dr. Alireza Saadati, RT, PT, OT, DOMP is an Iranian occupational therapist who moved to Canada a few years ago. He recently graduated from the DOMP program of National Academy of Osteopathy. As a......
Congratulations to National University of Medical Sciences student, naprapath/manual osteopath, Dr. Matt Gibbons, president of the Osteopathy & Naprapathy Association of Newfoundland & Labrador who is now also the Chair of Council on Naprapathy Education of the Canadian Naprapathic Association. We are so proud of......
I love all our faculty members at National Academy of Osteopathy. But I am specially fond of Dr. Amir Kazemi. He was my student 11 years ago in the first class of NAO and later on at National University of Medical Sciences (Spain). In all......
Panamanian Claudia Saldaña (an osteopathy student) has been hired as the registrar for the newly formed Asociación de OsteopatÃa de Panamá – Osteopathy Association of Panama. To keep updated with AOP news please visit http://www.facebook.com/panamaosteopathy. Thank you....
The first osteopathy association in Panama, Asociación de OsteopatÃa de Panamá – Osteopathy Association of Panama is currently being set up. NAO president, Dr. Shawn Pourgol, MBA, DC, DO, PhD is the first president of this association....
The Osteopathy TV has started its first project which is to make 100s of YouTube videos on specific muscle stretches. The first video has been uploaded today and it is about 7 different Biceps stretches. We hope these videos introduces the public, indirectly to the......
Congratulations to NAO graduate, manual osteopath & naprapath, Dr. Dasha Veprjitska, DOMP, BSc (Ost), MBA, DO (Spain), DN for being chosen as new president of the Canadian Naprapathic Association (CNA). Dr. Veprjitska is a graduate of the diploma in osteopathic manual practice (DOMP) program of......
Registered manual osteopath Elizabeth Felix, DOMP, RMO who practices in Harriston, Ontario is a National Academy of Osteopathy graduate and a member of the College of Registered Manual Osteopaths. She is so happy with her education that she referred her daughter to study osteopathy at......
From the moment I saw NAO student, Nichelle Thomson (2012 Miss North Ontario) at the York University Heights campus of National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) I knew she is someone special. She had an aura of intelligence around her and I knew she was destined......
Robert O’Friel is a retired professional golfer who traveled from South Africa to study at NAO and Deshna Shah, a medical assistant from Kenya. Such dedication! These two students traveled all the way from Africa to study manual osteopathy at NAO.  NAO is......
Did you know National Academy of Osteopathy is the only osteopathy school in Canada teaching osteopathic psychosomatic techniques? Manual osteopath, Professor Elias Abdel-Ahad is our technique professor covering these interesting techniques that have many benefits including helping people with chronic pain....
We are happy to announce that National Academy of Osteopathy students can now join the American College of Physical Medicine. The American College of Physical Medicine is a medical association open to manual osteopaths and other health professionals. To apply for membership please......
We graduate successful manual osteopaths! Here is a beautiful letter from one of our students at NAO and NUMSS who is also a member of OCPCC: Choosing National Academy of Osteopathy was the best decision I made. I studied in two other osteopathy colleges for close......
We love to see couples practice manual osteopathy together. It is financially and emotionally a wise decision. At the National Academy of Osteopathy, we have a number of couples as alumni. The most recent one is Saideh Shahbazi who was accepted to the National......
Here is a Facebook post from manual osteopath/physiotherapist Azzyl Serrot Aulipre who is a graduate of National Academy of Osteopathy (Canada) and a current DO (doctor of osteopathy) student of the National University of Medical Sciences (Spain): “The advanced cranial osteopathy program of NAO helps......
NAO president, Dr. Shawn Pourgol was grateful to receive a beautiful card filled with such kind words from one of his students, Daniel Thomas, DOMP who thanked me for changing his life. This is what we do. We change lives. Our business lectures and......
Since 2010, this is the first time we have issued an honorary Diploma in Osteopathic Manual Practice (DOMP). This was done due to the request of one of our alumni in Ottawa. This manual osteopath treated a young lady for chronic pain. This 19......
Thanks to the National Academy of Osteopathy who organized the February 2019 graduation day ceremony in Toronto....
We present to you some of the best manual osteopaths of the world!...
Here is a testimonial from a manual osteopath, Shuai Wang-Zappitelli, DOMP a recent graduate of the National Academy of Osteopathy who is enjoying a successful practice in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. “Dr. Pourgol! I wanted to thank you again for being an awesome teacher and......
Helping an NAO Employee in Our Parking Lot Some of the instructors and students of the National Academy of Osteopathy helped an NAO employee today that was stuck in the snow. They got her car free of the snow. We also lost the electricity for a while today......
Charity Work in Bali Manual osteopath, Jeannie Dhun a graduate of National Academy of Osteopathy and a member of our Osteopathy Chronic Pain Clinics of Canada has joined the Hands with Heart Foundation of NAO professor, osteopath, Jorge Aranda in Bali, Indonesia to offer free osteopathic care......
NAO Students – Class of Sept 2018 National Academy of Osteopathy students (class of September 2018) practicing cranial, visceral, soft tissue and other osteopathic techniques with Professor Rachel Orr, Dr Eid and other professors....
Card from Canadian Prime Minister Canadian Prime Minister Sends Us Season’s Greeting On behalf of our students, staff and faculty, we wish to thank the RT. Hon. Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, for wishing us a happy holidays by mailing this card....
Professors Dr Hussein Eid, MD (Egy), DOMP and Dr Hossein Khorrami, PhD, DOMP teaching visceral techniques of osteopathy at the York University Heights campus of National Academy of Osteopathy in Toronto. NAO has more technique instructors than any other school of osteopathy in Canada....
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