Through the Looking Glass: Diagnosing and Treating Long COVID using the Perrin Technique

Raymond N Perrin DO PhD was the inaugural Winner of the Institute of Osteopathy's 2015 Research and Practice Award. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Allied Health Professions, University of Central Lancashire, and a Registered Osteopath and Specialist in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and now Long-Covid. Treating a patient for back pain in 1989 led him to the concept that there was a structural basis to ME/CFS. He has spent over thirty years researching the medical facts and sifting the scientific evidence related to lymphatic drainage of the brain while successfully treating an increasing number of CFS/ME and, since 2020, Long-Covid sufferers and teaching fellow osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists the fundamentals of the Perrin Technique. He is the author of The Perrin Technique (a guide for practitioners, now in its second edition published in March 2021) and The Concise Perrin Technique (a guide for patients, published in August 2021) as well as being the co-author of some key research papers including Hives et al 2017 (DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017521) and Heald et al 2022 (DOI: 10.1097/XCE.0000000000000261). He continues to run clinics in Manchester and London specialising in treatment for ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and Long-Covid.

The basics - how the Perrin Technique works; Long Covid - what's really going on? The role of toxins in Long Covid; The stages leading to Long Covid; Treatment for Long Covid using the Perrin Technique; FAQs; Common pathological and radiological tests; The Perrin questionnaire for Long Covid; Resources