OMM Lab During Pandemic

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This is a copy of my post from Jan 2020

I have been listening to medical students trash OMM for a couple years now without any feedback. Remember pre meds read SDN and might actually think you know what you are talking about. It is not all pseudoscience. Mainstream journals aren't in the habit of publishing pseudoscience.


Annals of Internal Medicine: 2004, 141; 432-439
Manipulative Therapy in Addition to Usual Medical Care for Patients with Shoulder Dysfunction and Pain;
Gert J.D. Bergman, et al.

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, (ACOG Green Journal), Am J Obstet Gynecol 2010; 202:43.e1-08
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment of Back Pain and Related Symptoms during pregnancy: a Randomized Controlled Trial
John C. Licciardone, D.O. et al.

Annals of Internal Medicine; 21 December 2004; Vol 141: Number 12; pp. 920-928.
A Clinical Prediction Rule to Identify Patients with Low Back Pain Most Likely to Benefit from Spinal Manipulation: A validation Study
Maj John D. Childs, PhD, et. al.

Annals of Thoracic Surgery: 2017 Jul;104(1): `45-152. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.110. Epub 2017 Jan18
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Improves Heart Surgery Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Racca V, et. al.

These are some articles published in peer reviewed mainstream journals showing positive correlations with OMT. These articles don't represent a cure for cancer or for the common cold, but suggest OMT was beneficial in their study and like anything, more work is needed. Students having trouble wrapping their arms around cranial and Chapmans points is understandable. Too many students have very firm opinions about OMT and should reserve them until they have actually treated patients, not classmates, with OMT. Once again, these mainstream journals are not in the habit of publishing pseudoscience. Whew, got that off my chest

If the sum total of what was taught in OMM labs was that which had solid research, we'd spend less than 50 hrs total time learning it. The field is happy to use science when it agrees but equally happy in making statements like "the science will catch up" and make spurious and unethical claims about what it can accomplish. The problem is that the field SO entirely revolves around cranial, viscero, chapman's points, and magical thinking that the standard stuff that does work, and other professions like PTs use, gets diluted out.

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[Goro]

If the sum total of what was taught in OMM labs was that which had solid research, we'd spend less than 50 hrs total time learning it. The field is happy to use science when it agrees but equally happy in making statements like "the science will catch up" and make spurious and unethical claims about what it can accomplish. The problem is that the field SO entirely revolves around cranial, viscero, chapman's points, and magical thinking that the standard stuff that does work, and other professions like PTs use, gets diluted out.

And this answers the o p how?