About
TheĀ League of Extraordinary Osteopaths (The LXO)
Developing Extraordinary Osteopaths
About Jamie Archer
Osteopath, Educator and Co-Founder of The LXO
Jamie Archer BOst (Distinction), PGCert Applied Clinical Anatomy is a registered osteopath and educator with more than 20 years' experience in clinical practice and osteopathic education.
As co-founder of The LXO, Jamie brings together osteopathic principles, clinical anatomy, palpation, clinical reasoning and practical technical skill to help qualified osteopaths continue developing the way they think, examine, feel and work with their hands in clinical practice.
About Gila Archer
Educator and Co-Founder of The LXO
Gila Archer BA (Hons) Primary Education, PGCert Physical Literacy and Level 4 Pilates Teacher is an educator, author and co-founder of The LXO with more than 25 years' experience in education and movement teaching.
Gila brings her background in education and learning to the development of The LXO, working alongside Jamie to shape how its postgraduate education is structured, communicated and developed into a learning experience that supports meaningful clinical development.
Why The LXO Exists
Qualifying as an osteopath is an important milestone, but it isn't the end of your development.
The years that follow bring experience. You see more patients, encounter more complex presentations and gradually develop your own ways of thinking and working. You may attend courses, learn new techniques and deepen your knowledge along the way.
But experience alone doesn't necessarily lead to development.
Simply seeing more patients doesn't necessarily make you a better osteopath. It can make you a faster version of the osteopath you already are.
To continue developing, there need to be opportunities to question how you think, deepen your understanding, refine what you do with your hands and deliberately apply what you are learning back in clinical practice.
Technique without reasoning is guesswork. Reasoning without technique is theory.
The LXO exists to bring those things together.
We create postgraduate osteopathic education that connects clinical reasoning, osteopathic principles, applied clinical anatomy, palpation and practical technical skill rather than developing each in isolation.
Just as importantly, The LXO provides a professional community in which osteopaths can continue asking questions, discussing cases, challenging their thinking and learning alongside others who are equally committed to their clinical development.
Developing extraordinary osteopaths isn't about knowing more for the sake of knowing more. It's about continually developing how you think, what you understand and what you are able to do with that understanding in clinical practice.
Continue Your Development with The LXO
The LXO is a postgraduate learning community for qualified osteopaths who want to continue developing their clinical thinking, understanding and practical capability.
