Zachary Comeaux DO
     
Contact: zcomeaux@verizon.net



Dr. Comeaux and a femur-wielding child

As an academically active osteopath, Zachary Comeaux has generated the following list of books, book chapters, and articles:


BOOKS

The Healer's Heart, 2008, Book Locker


Body, mind, spirit interweave in this action-romance novel in Bavaria, Boston, and Brazil in the year 2032. The novel attempts to reflect and actualize the hopes of many for osteopathy, medicine, science, ecology and economic politics. The reality of consciousness, the power of love to heal are put in a practical setting.
The Healer's Heart



       
Harmonic Healing: A Guide to Facilitated Oscillatory Release and Other Rhythmic Myofascial Techniques, 2008, Random House

The book reviews the role of oscillatory or vibratory work as an extension of other connective tissue techniques, explains the relevant physiology and the principles of wave propagation in tissue, and then provides illustrated introductory exercises, applications, and case studies.

Harmonic Healing








Fire on the Prairie, the Life and Times of Andrew Taylor Still, 2007, Book Locker.

Fire on the Prairie is an historical romance (19th-20th century transition) following the rise of A.T. Still from the hardship of a frontier life to founding a novel approach to medicine. His personal story as a zealot reformer starts by his learning commitment and energy from his circuit–riding preacher father and develops into a story of power and family dynastic succession. The era also spawned the rise of the corporate power and Still’s legacy in enmeshed in the intrigues of such developments.
   
Fire On the Prairie








Robert Fulford D.O. and the Philosopher Physician, 2002, Eastland Press, Seattle.

Robert Fulford, D.O. and the Philosopher Physician is both an intellectual biography and a practical introduction to Dr. Fulford's methods of diagnosis and treatment. In addition to tracing the principal figures and ideas that influenced his thought, there are sample protocols of Fulford's history-taking, physical examination and general treatments, and exercises for learning to discern the human energy field ("etheric body") and treating with "intention."
Robert Fulford D.O. and the Philosopher Physician








Pocket Manual of OMT: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Physicians, Essig-Beatty DE, Steele KM, Comeaux Z, Lemley WW, 2005, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Boston.

This practical, concise, must-have handbook by faculty in the Department of Osteopathic Principles and Practice at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine will assist physicians, therapists and other practitioners, and medical students in applying manipulative treatment techniques for common problems encountered in primary care practice.
Pocket Manual of OMT


BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Integration with medicine - the scope of cranial work, in Chaitow,L. Cranial Manipulation Theory and Practice, ed. 2 Elsevier August 2005
  • Integrated Osteopathic Approach to lower respiratory tract infection In Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Practice, K. Nelson, T. Glonek, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 2006
  • Fulford’s Bioenergetic Osteopathy and Percussion Vibrator in Ped Torsten Liem Treatment

          

ARTICLES

"The Silver Thread - The perennial aspect of osteopathic thought," The AAO Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1997 p 31-33

"The Challenge of Primary Care Clinical Research - lessons learned from a pilot study on chronic constipation in the elderly," The Journal of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Vol 3, no.7, p. 11-14

"Rencontre avec Robert Fulford, D.O. ," Midline, Publication de la Societé Sutherland du Canada  vol. 1, no. 1, p. 5-8

"The Role of Vibration and Oscillation in the Development of Osteopathic Thought," The AAO Journal, vol. 10 no. 3 Fall 2000  pp. 19-24

"Diagnostik und Behandlung nach Dr. Fulford (Teil 1)," Stillpoint, vol. 2, no. 4, Oktober 2000, (Teil 2), vol. 3, no. 1, Januar 2001,(Teil 3), vol. 3, no.2, March 2001,(Teil 4), vol. 3, no. 3, April 2001

"Measurement Challenges in Physical Diagnosis: refining inter-rater palpation, perception and communication," Journal of Movement and Movement Therapies, Oct. 2001

"Osteopathy for the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on future expansion or integration of Osteopathic Thought," L’Osteopathie Precisement, CEO Journal, 2001

"Facilitated Oscillatory Release," American Academy of Osteopathy Journal, vol 12 no 2 pp.24-35, 2002

"Facilitated Oscillatory Release - A method of dynamic assessment and treatment of somatic dysfunction," American Academy of Osteopathy Journal, vol 13 no 3 pp.30-34, 2003       

"The Benefit of OMT Intervention to a functional scoliosis patient," ACOFP  News, vol 3 no 9 p 12,13 Oct 2003

"Cholecystitis:somato-visceral associations in diagnosis and treatment,"  ACOFP News, vol 3 no 6 p. 14,15 June 2003

"Osteopathic Management Case Study - Elbow Pain, "ACOFP News, vol 3 no 4, April 03 p. 12,13
       
"Chronic Sciatica in a Complex Elderly Patient," ACOFP News, vol 3, no 2, Feb 03, p.16-18

"Relanchement 0scillatoire facilite – une method d’evaluation et traitement  dynamique de la dysfunction somatique," Osteopathie Precisement,  Summer 2004 n 14 pp.20-26

"Comment Parler le Champs etherique? Qu’est-ce que l’on resent," Osteopathie Precisement,  Spring 2004 n13,  p. 37-38

"Book Review and reprint of home exercises in Ostium," Australian Osteopathic Association Journal, Autumn 2004 p. 26-28

"Tagliche Eigenbungen," Deutschen Zeitschrift fur Osteopathie, Jan 2004 p.40

"Efficacy of manipulation in low back pain treatment: the validity of meta-analysis conclusions"  Leon Chaitow, Zachary Comeaux, Jan Dommerholt,  Edzard Ernst et al, Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 2004 8, 25-31

"Clinical Approaches: Facilitated Oscillation,"  Journal of Bodywork and Manual Therapies v9 #2, April 2005 p 88-98

"Somatische Dysfunktion, Osteopathische Medizin," 6 Jarg. Heft 3/2005

"Zen Awareness in the Teaching of Palpation, an osteopathic perspective,"  Journal of Bodywork and Manual Therapies,  v9 #4 Pages 318-326

"Somatic Dysfunction – a reflection on the scope of osteopathic practice," American Academy of Osteopathy Journal, 12/05