Sources

On this page

1. The Academy's materials
2. Organisations and partners
3. Teacher profiles
4. Standards, guidelines and legal documents

The Academy's materials

• Lesson schedules: Year 1 (December 2024 – August 2025), Year 2 (October 2025 – July 2026), Year 3 (September 2026 – July 2027).
• Osteopathie Schule Deutschland programme guide (in Azerbaijani).
• Sample OSD diploma, final examination certificate and transcript.
• The Academy's Instagram page (opens in a new window) (2024–2026).
• The Academy page on the ELF Center website (opens in a new window).
• Video recordings of the “Fascia 1” module (Video lessons).

Organisations and partners

1. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — official details (legal name, address, management) osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
2. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — about the school osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
3. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — team osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
4. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — teaching locations osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
5. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — cooperation partners (including OCT) osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
6. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — part-time osteopathy training osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
7. Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — osteopathy training and professional titles osteopathie-schule.de (opens in a new window)
8. German association of osteopathy schools (BAO) — OSD profile bao-osteopathie.de (opens in a new window)
9. BAO — curriculum standard for osteopathy training bao-osteopathie.de (opens in a new window)
10. BAO — final examination standard bao-osteopathie.de (opens in a new window)
11. An explanation of osteopathy titles and trademarks osteokompass.de (opens in a new window)
12. Osteopathic College of Turkey — Instagram page instagram.com (opens in a new window)
13. ELF Center — academy page elfcenter.az (opens in a new window)
14. Sonxeber.az (11 September 2022): osteopath-therapist Elfanə Süleymanova held a meeting for students of the Azerbaijan Medical University (ATU) sonxeber.az (opens in a new window)
15. A. T. Still University — the history of osteopathy atsu.edu (opens in a new window)
16. Health Sciences University — successor to the British School of Osteopathy hsu.ac.uk (opens in a new window)
17. Barral Institute — about Jean-Pierre Barral barralinstitute.com (opens in a new window)
18. American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine — about osteopathic medicine aacom.org (opens in a new window)
19. Osteopathic International Alliance — the difference between osteopathic medicine and osteopathy oialliance.org (opens in a new window)

Teacher profiles

• Michel Puylaert: Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — teacher page (opens in a new window); Personal website (opens in a new window)
• Beate Ziegenhain (Siemers): Practice website (opens in a new window); Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — about the paediatric osteopathy seminar (opens in a new window)
• Oliver Hintz: Osteopathie Schule Deutschland — teacher page (opens in a new window)
• Rabia Tuğba Tekin (Kılıç): Hacettepe University — academic profile (opens in a new window); ORCID (opens in a new window)
• Aycan Güçlü Sözmen: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window); IOMT 2024 congress committees (opens in a new window)
• İrfan Abdurrahman: Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Erkan Özyılmaz: Galatasaray club website (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Savaş Kudaş: Personal website — biography (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Ömer Osman Pala: ORCID (opens in a new window); Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University — about the certificate programme (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Oktay Çağlar: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Hasan Genç: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Hüseyin Başaran: FizyoCare — specialists (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)
• Erdem Yörükoğlu: Personal website — about (opens in a new window); IOMT 2024 congress committees (opens in a new window)
• Metin Aydın: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window)
• Hilal Boşnak Özcan: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window); Profile in a doctor directory (opens in a new window)
• Mehmet Ünal: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window); ANOD — team (opens in a new window); Paper (DOI) (opens in a new window)
• Oğuz Gücin: Professional profile (Medikurs) (opens in a new window); Personal website (opens in a new window)
• Dr. Elfanə Süleymanova: ELF Center — professional profile (opens in a new window); Sonxeber.az — about the meeting with students (opens in a new window); Instagram (opens in a new window)

Standards, guidelines and legal documents

1. World Health Organization (2010). Benchmarks for training in osteopathy. ISBN 978-92-4-159966-5. who.int (opens in a new window)
2. EN 16686:2015. Osteopathic healthcare provision (European standard). sis.se (opens in a new window)
3. Osteopathic International Alliance (2026). Global report: executive summary (2025 data). oialliance.org (opens in a new window)
4. NICE NG59 (2016, with 2026 amendments). Low back pain and sciatica: assessment and management. nice.org.uk (opens in a new window)
5. United Kingdom: Osteopaths Act 1993, section 32. legislation.gov.uk (opens in a new window)
6. Switzerland: Federal Act on Health Professions. fedlex.admin.ch (opens in a new window)
7. Finland: Decree No. 564/1994. finlex.fi (opens in a new window)
8. Italy: Presidential Decree No. 131/2021. normattiva.it (opens in a new window)
9. Germany: judgment of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court of 8 September 2015 (I-20 U 236/13). nrwe.justiz.nrw.de (opens in a new window)
10. Türkiye: Regulation on Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practices (Official Gazette, 27 October 2014). resmigazete.gov.tr (opens in a new window)
11. Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On Private Medical Practice” (30 December 1999, No. 789-IQ). sehiyye.gov.az (opens in a new window)
12. UK Advertising Standards Authority: guidance on advertising osteopathy (2022). asa.org.uk (opens in a new window)