The Lymphatics: A professional course for osteopaths met Raymond Perrin DO

Raymond N Perrin DO PhD is a Registered Osteopath and Neuroscientist specialising in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). His present academic posts include Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at the School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Allied Health Professions Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. He is also Research Director of the FORME Trust and Founder and Clinical Director of the Perrin Clinic™.

Treating a patient for backpain in 1989 led him to the concept that there was a structural basis to ME/CFS. He has spent over 35 years conducting clinical trials, researching the medical facts and sifting the scientific evidence while successfully treating an increasing number of ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and long COVID sufferers and teaching fellow osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists the fundamentals of the Perrin Technique.

For his service to osteopathy, Dr Perrin was appointed a vice-patron of the University College of Osteopathy (formerly the BSO) and in 2015 became the very first winner of the Research and Practice Award from the Institute of Osteopathy.