Shadowed a OMT today, and shadowing a general Praticioner tomorrow

[Trollest]

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So is OMT osteopathic medicine? The OMT'er i shadowed today ran no lab, she literally treated her patients with her hands, relaxed their bones, or rotated their pelvic or what not. So, is there any branch in osteopathic medicine that looks like allopathic? osteo = bones, and at the end of the day, couldn't help but link osteopathic medicine to bones.

 

[giguerex35]

Hone

 

[giguerex35]

Honestly I think your case is the exception. Most DOs are indistinguishable from mds and all the ones I've shadowed have never used OMM. That being said I'd do some more reasearch into the field and others experiences before you make any kind of commitment to the field

 

[kamakazi5]

Not entirely sure what you mean. OMT is the major distinguishing characteristic between MD and DO. Everything else between the two is practically identical.

 

[FutureD.O]

You shadowed an OMM specialist. Yes they exist and they are FM practitioners who have completed an OMM fellowship.

Most DOs are indistinguishable from their MD counterparts in terms of how they practice.

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

So is OMT osteopathic medicine? The OMT'er i shadowed today ran no lab, she literally treated her patients with her hands, relaxed their bones, or rotated their pelvic or what not. So, is there any branch in osteopathic medicine that looks like allopathic? osteo = bones, and at the end of the day, couldn't help but link osteopathic medicine to bones.

Nope. We do radiology by doing pelvic disengagement