Raymond Perrin, DO (UK), PhD

• Neuroscientist and specialist in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) 
• Hon. Clinical Research Fellow, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 
• Vice Patron – University College of Osteopathy, London 
• International Faculty member of The Osteopathie Schule Deutschland (OSD) 
• Winner of the Institute of Osteopathy’s Research and Practice Award 2015 

Dr. Raymond Perrin qualified in 1984 from the then-British School of Osteopathy (BSO). While at the BSO he spent three years working in the children’s clinic with Jonathan Curtis-Lake where he gained much experience in cranio-sacral techniques. 

He has extensive experience treating top athletes, including Olympians. In 1991, he was appointed official osteopath to the World Student Games, Sheffield, UK. 

Dr. Perrin’s research since 1989 in ME/CFS has expanded knowledge of the disease and how to diagnose and treat it. In July 2005, he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Salford, UK for his thesis on the involvement of cerebrospinal fluid and lymphatic drainage in ME/CFS. 

From 1996 onwards, he has been the Research Director of F.O.R.M.E. Trust (The Fund for Osteopathic Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). 

Since 2007, he has held the academic post of Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Allied Health Professions Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), in Preston, UK. 

He has lectured internationally and in the UK to patient groups for ME/CFS and the medical profession on the osteopathic treatment of ME/CFS. He has published papers in major medical journals and his book, The Perrin Technique: How to Beat CFS/ME was first published by Hammersmith Press, London in 2007 with the second edition being published in 2021.

In 2009, Dr. Perrin presented his work to the world’s leading experts in ME/CFS at the Annual Conference of the International Association of CFS/ME (IACFS/ME) in Reno, Nevada. 

He was appointed member of the Scientific Committees for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th World Congresses on Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology affiliated with the European Association of Psychiatrists Annual Conference, Greece. 

In March 2014, Dr. Perrin presented further research findings at the IACFS/ME Annual Conference in San Francisco.  

In a study between 2015-16, he was the chief investigator of a joint UCLan and National Health Service (NHS) research project: Examining the accuracy of a physical diagnostic technique for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, REC reference number 12/NW/0877. 

In 2015, he joined the international faculty of the German School of Osteopathy, Hamburg, teaching osteopathic theory and practice to students in colleges throughout Europe. Additionally, Dr, Perrin has lectured and taught worldwide including in the USA, South Africa, Gibraltar, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Sicily, Russia, Australia, Brazil, and South Africa, to fellow osteopaths, physiotherapists, chiropractors and physicians in the manual techniques he has developed. 

In his service to osteopathy, Dr. Perrin was appointed a vice-patron of The British School of Osteopathy, now The University College of Osteopathy, and was the proud recipient of the inaugural Research and Practice Award from the Institute of Osteopathy in 2015. 

In 2016, he was a lecturer at the IACFS/ME Annual Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was invited to present his findings to the Neuroimmune Research Centre at the College of Osteopathic Medicine at NOVA Southeastern University. He detailed his ground-breaking research project in this workshop which was published in the online version of The British Medical Journal (Hives L et al 2017). 

He is at present an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health at The University of Manchester. 

Ray lives with his family in North Manchester where he runs a multi-disciplinary clinic. He also sees patients in two other clinics near London.