ORION

Bridging the gap between research and osteopathy

ORION has relaunched for 2024-2025! Please complete the ORION 2024-2025 survey and help grow the evidence base for osteopathy. We invite all practising osteopaths across Australia to participate.

The ORION Project, established in 2016 in partnership with Osteopathy Australia, has helped significantly grow the evidence-base and research capacity of osteopathy across Australia and it is now time to build upon this work and extend the benefits of the ORION project to contemporary practice.

A big thank you to all those osteopaths who have participated in the ORION project to this point. Your input has been essential and is much appreciated. However, whether you participated in the previous ORION survey back in 2016 or not – your participation in 2024-2025 remains essential.

Now is the time to have your voice heard, to help strengthen the research base for the profession and to help build the empirical body of knowledge about osteopathy and related health outcomes relevant for 2024 and beyond. The ORION survey will take just over 10 minutes to complete.

Simply click here.

 

The original ORION study was undertaken by the Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) at the Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney and was led by Professor Jon Adams. It aimed to shed light on the day-to-day practice of osteopathy in Australia, including the techniques used, the patient populations treated and the outcomes achieved. The extensive research provided valuable insight for osteopaths and other health professionals, and provided a greater understanding of the osteopathic profession as a whole. The project also aimed to spark further sub-studies to greater explore osteopathic education, practice, and the future of the profession.

ORION provided the opportunity to not just establish the infrastructure and evidence base for osteopathy research in the short term, but also to help grow a sustainable research culture and broad evidence platform for osteopathy into the future. Key to this was developing a close working relationship with Universities offering osteopathy courses and academics working in osteopathy education and research. The project commenced in mid-2015 and took 12 months of development. It also had its own steering committee with a mix of researchers, osteopaths, and Osteopathy Australia representatives; and gained ethics approval from the Human Ethics Committee, University of Technology Sydney.

The ORION project remains a milestone in osteopathic research. Osteopathy Australia can only make headway on many lobbying issues with better data and as such, projects such as ORION help protect, promote, and enhance the profession.

Learn more: ARCCIM & ORION, Read the ORION study
For more information about the study, including any data queries, please contact Contact Professor Jon Adams