It’s not though. You have stuff like Chapman’s Points or about anything cranial that is pseudoscience but there are studies and evidence that it is effective on back pain and musculoskeletal issues. They teach the same techniques my physical therapist performed on me for my compressed vertebrae.
Complete nonsense,human touch is therapeutic,manipulation had nothing to do with calming the mother.Certainly dying isnt easy for anyone but its completely natural and usually medication is used to calm agitation.My dad got Morphine .
Still no discussion how you use Osteopathy to diagnose internal medicine problems ie and acute somatic dysfunction at thorasicic # 2 could be an anterior wall myocardial infarction { heart attack} or it could be from bronchial spasm from an acute asthma attack. After diagnosing which you can use osteopathy to quickly treat these internal medicine problems/ THE POINT Osteopathy is not some form of just physical therapy. It is a complete system of internal medicine.And when I did my training in the three year fellowship the doctor speaks of I did all the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine consultations for a 900 bed hospital in all hospital departments from pediatrics to cardiology to intensive care unit to the emergency room. Dr Dane Shepherd DO Chicago
Just wanted to point out that treating people (albeit his own wife and children) with before being a licensed physician is somewhat questionable ethically speaking...
Brother Omar, yes, you may want to visit NAO (National Academy of Osteopathy) at www.nationalacademyofosteopathy.com Please take a look at their programs. They are an amazing academy which focuses on Osteopathic Manual Therapy (OMT)! You will benefit greatly from it and you will bring great benefits to your patients through the use of OMT!
@@suresh9384 No, I think we would have to work under a DO who uses the techniques. All of the ones with whom I have worked just practice "regular" medicine.👋🏽👨🏽⚕️
Thank you for making this video - even though it's a short video, you said a profound thing is that 'all you need is your hands'. I am looking into studying Osteo and you have helped me come closer to making that decision. Thank you!
Unfortunately this is a loaded question. Osteopathy is not like Tylenol where you say it works or doesn't. It's many treatment modalities. It's like surgery where some surgeries help some conditions and others don't. Many osteopathic treatments are equivalent or downright the same as PT with clear evidence (eg, back pain), while others, like chapman points, that have no scientific merit and the profession should get rid of. Research into osteopathy is very limited because they have placed it under alternative medicine in the NIH, and because that NIH division is being ran by a chiropractor, there is limited funding.
@@scarred10 Looking back to this after two years. I remember some months ago I gave a look to a bunch of papers, and I found that the only evidence that chiropractic actually helps is with back pain and that's it. Placebo also has an important role with all of this.
@@FraserJohnstone1 Again, you're taking a "either OMM works or it doesn't" approach when that is nonsensical. Line i mentioned, OMM is a group of treatments. Some are the same as PT, some have proven benefits, some unknown, and others do not.
You know what this is such an incredible answer and explaination of Osteopathic Medicine. You explained this so eloquently yet simply. I loved it so much!
Thanks! I really wanted to learn more about this fellowship, and I'm getting more and more interested. Is this very competitive?? I would assume so. Also, is it very time consuming, given all the rotations you have to do in your third and fourth year? How do you do all these other things on top of your responsibilities a 3rd/4th year MS? And you fifth year, do you do all these things "full time" since you are done with classes?
