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I’m starting second year and I will say that I like OMM. Yes it is a time sink that MD schools don’t have but it is minimal and I think I am getting a real benefit from it.
I came into med school with lots of reoccurring headaches and I took NSAIDS like candy. Now I know more about ergonomics and how to address my tension with ME or counterstrain and my headaches are significantly improved. Over the summer break I used counterstrain and ME on my parents and significantly helped their complaints.
I recently shadowed an MD who had a patient with a headache complaint they felt was MSK related and the MD referred the patient to one of their DO colleagues for OMM.
I feel like OMM is a valuable skill set and some of the techniques are helpful and clinically relevant. Is the scope of OMM specific and narrow? Yes. Is it bloated with a history of irrelevant material? Also yes, but so is medicine more broadly. Is it a valuable skill for me to have? Absolutely. I feel like my palpation skills and comfort with clinically relevant anatomy, and examining a patient is really strong after just one year of OMM lab.
If you look for the clinically relevant parts of it and give it some attention, it will be a benefit to your training. Or you can view it as a waste of time and you won’t get anything out of it.
I came into med school with lots of reoccurring headaches and I took NSAIDS like candy. Now I know more about ergonomics and how to address my tension with ME or counterstrain and my headaches are significantly improved. Over the summer break I used counterstrain and ME on my parents and significantly helped their complaints.
I recently shadowed an MD who had a patient with a headache complaint they felt was MSK related and the MD referred the patient to one of their DO colleagues for OMM.
I feel like OMM is a valuable skill set and some of the techniques are helpful and clinically relevant. Is the scope of OMM specific and narrow? Yes. Is it bloated with a history of irrelevant material? Also yes, but so is medicine more broadly. Is it a valuable skill for me to have? Absolutely. I feel like my palpation skills and comfort with clinically relevant anatomy, and examining a patient is really strong after just one year of OMM lab.
If you look for the clinically relevant parts of it and give it some attention, it will be a benefit to your training. Or you can view it as a waste of time and you won’t get anything out of it.
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