Ever experienced OMM?

[Mr Roboto]

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Just curious how many of you have undergone osteopathic manipulation therapy. I'd like to try it out sometime.

I asked a DO that I work with about it. The only time that doc still uses it is when they go out drinking with friends from school and are hung over the next day. Swears they've found a trick to making hangover headaches go away rapidly.

 

[gumdrops]

Just curious how many of you have undergone osteopathic manipulation therapy. I'd like to try it out sometime.

I asked a DO that I work with about it. The only time that doc still uses it is when they go out drinking with friends from school and are hung over the next day. Swears they've found a trick to making hangover headaches go away rapidly.

I used to see a DO for primary care occasionally. Now I feel like I got the shaft for never receiving OMM. Given how she managed clinical matters otherwise, I think I'll wait for my next DO provider before asking for OMM. :-/

 

[Chipster.]

Just curious how many of you have undergone osteopathic manipulation therapy. I'd like to try it out sometime.

I asked a DO that I work with about it. The only time that doc still uses it is when they go out drinking with friends from school and are hung over the next day. Swears they've found a trick to making hangover headaches go away rapidly.

You just made every frat boy on these forums reconsider DO

 

[Mr Roboto]

You just made every frat boy on these forums reconsider DO

It's what made me interested. Just need to have them try it on me before I make that decision final! haha

 

[Goro]

I've had several treatments for different aches and pains (some quite debilitating) done by my OMM/OMT Dep't colleagues and they were greatly helpful.

Just curious how many of you have undergone osteopathic manipulation therapy. I'd like to try it out sometime.

I asked a DO that I work with about it. The only time that doc still uses it is when they go out drinking with friends from school and are hung over the next day. Swears they've found a trick to making hangover headaches go away rapidly.

 

[Bacchus]

I perform it semi-routinely in the office and it provides immediate (but obviously not sustained) relief. Its a good adjunct in the face of getting people to PT and having them make lifestyle changes. Weighing 300 pounds and having an increased lordosis is not going to give OMM a fair shot. There will be immediate relief, but all that muscle memory will take over and treatments will be needed routinely.

That said, my most recent "success" was for a patient who had "debilitating" scapulocostal" pain and was taking a progression of opiates for it. She saw me and I picked up on it, did some release techniques and she was 80-100% better. Now, if I was seeing those billing amounts I would have been able to bill for extremity, thoracic and cervical treatment regions and made a quick extra 50-60 bucks. I treated this complaint in <5 mins.

I routinely HVLA myself at the gym using the core rotator. Enough weight and those lumbar vertebrae release quite nicely. 🙂

 

[rain4venus]

One of the pediatricians I'm looking up for my impending baby is a DO. I definitely want to ask how often (if ever) he actually employs it in his practice. That's not a weird thing to ask a doctor, right?

 

[Bacchus]

One of the pediatricians I'm looking up for my impending baby is a DO. I definitely want to ask how often (if ever) he actually employs it in his practice. That's not a weird thing to ask a doctor, right?

Its not, but the answer usually is "not at all."
Peds techniques can include cranial for cephaloplegia/poor suck reflex, constipation, URI. There's more, I'm sure, but I haven't done much peds OMM.

 

[rain4venus]

Its not, but the answer usually is "not at all."
Peds techniques can include cranial for cephaloplegia/poor suck reflex, constipation, URI. There's more, I'm sure, but I haven't done much peds OMM.

Yeah I kinda expected that....I am just kinda curious about it