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Is anyone worried about being too fat or out of shape for OMM?
Don't get me wrong I diet and exercise, but I do work for a Food Corporation... and let's just say there's free food all around me 8am-4pm lol. I guess I can learn to cut down. Is it just me or is anyone else worried about looking porky in front of your classmates?😕
 
Chillywilly said:
Is anyone worried about being too fat or out of shape for OMM?
Don't get me wrong I diet and exercise, but I do work for a Food Corporation... and let's just say there's free food all around me 8am-4pm lol. I guess I can learn to cut down. Is it just me or is anyone else worried about looking porky in front of your classmates?😕
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Who cares!! No one is perfect. Some of us may have incredible bodies, but we still will never be a perfect being. Just go in there with a professional 'tude. Hopefully at this level of education, everyone is mature/professional enough to not be rude in such predicaments. Having said that, even if they are not, don't think twice about it. We are in this for the long haul to become medical professionals. Everything else is irrelevant.
 
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1badz said:
Who cares!! No one is perfect my dear. Some of us may have incredible bodies, but we still will never be a perfect being. Just go in there with a professional 'tude. Hopefully at this level of education, everyone is mature/professional enough to not be rude in such predicaments. Having said that, even if they are not, don't think twice about it. We are in this for the long haul to become medical professionals. Everything else is irrelevant.
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Doubt it
 
VinceViegel said:
If anyone in class comments, just go full Robert Baratheon:

"Fat? Is that how you speak to your doctor?

...HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
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"NOW GO FIND THE FAT OMM SPECIALIST!!

...HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
 
On the up side, you'll have a good osteopathic thruster for HVLA.
 
i am just about to be a NOVA grad! just a personal story...during first year OMM i was still lifting and eating heavily all the time. i weighed in at a whopping 260 lbs, 5'10"...i was paired up like week #2 when we were learning lumbar roll, and my partner was this 5 foot nothing, 100 lb girl. she did crossfit or something, so i guess she wanted to prove how strong she was and really put a flying leap into the lumbar roll. she about rolled me off the table onto the floor. haha... moral of the story is that stupid awkward situations happen all the time in OMM, and you learn to just laugh at them (or learning to laugh will make the first two years easier)...
 
You'll be fine, you're not the first and you won't be the last.
 
Keeping it professional, is performing OMM on heavier patients more difficult than others? I can only assume so...
 
Member10billion said:
Keeping it professional, is performing OMM on heavier patients more difficult than others? I can only assume so...
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it depends on the technique. frankly you just have to work the leverages...
 
Chillywilly said:
Is anyone worried about being too fat or out of shape for OMM?
Don't get me wrong I diet and exercise, but I do work for a Food Corporation... and let's just say there's free food all around me 8am-4pm lol. I guess I can learn to cut down. Is it just me or is anyone else worried about looking porky in front of your classmates?😕
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Nope. In fact, I would get more fat. Obese even. Ultimate gunning because nobody can palpate anything on you.
 
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Well the average patient tends to be on the heavier side, so that will be an advantage to your classmates practicing on you. So you're doing them a favor 🙂
 
random1234 said:
Well the average patient tends to be on the heavier side, so that will be an advantage to your classmates practicing on you. So you're doing them a favor 🙂
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Would it be to one's benefit to have bread making experience before school or should one get a leg up on cell bio instead?
 
nobody cares, sincerely.

we all want to be good physicians. if anything, i go out of my way to make sure overweight individuals feel as comfortable as possible--a priority of all successful physicians.
 
I'm more worried about my OMM lab partner accidentally hurting me than about being viewed by him/her as overweight. In nursing school, my lab partner 'mastered' IVs and venipuncture by practicing on my poor veins. 🙁 I can only imagine my OMM partner accidentally tweaking my muscles or joints incorrectly.
 
SurgeDO said:
nobody cares, sincerely.

we all want to be good physicians. if anything, i go out of my way to make sure overweight individuals feel as comfortable as possible--a priority of all successful physicians.
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Aww. You're like a hallmark card.
 
Isha2018 said:
I'm more worried about my OMM lab partner accidentally hurting me than about being viewed by him/her as overweight. In nursing school, my lab partner 'mastered' IVs and venipuncture by practicing on my poor veins. 🙁 I can only imagine my OMM partner accidentally tweaking my muscles or joints incorrectly.
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It is common to give your partner nausea and a headache during the cranial labs, otherwise I haven't heard of anyone damaging their OMM partner.
 
Member10billion said:
Keeping it professional, is performing OMM on heavier patients more difficult than others? I can only assume so...
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I find the heavier folks are easier to manip since their body mass does the work for you. I just have to get the placement and hand set up right and it goes back it. It's the super skinny with no body fat folks I worry about hurting since there is no cushion and they feel every thrust more.
 
Omg you guys, I'm not 300lbs or anything. 😳 I'm probably 15-20 lbs overweight, but I think I can lose it by August. I have a steady diet, but since I work in a Food Corporation there's free food all around me..it's hard to to cave in sometimes lol.

My pant size is a 31, but I want to get down to at least a 30, but 29 is my target
 
Chillywilly said:
Omg you guys, I'm not 300lbs or anything. 😳 I'm probably 15-20 lbs overweight, but I think I can lose it by August. I have a steady diet, but since I work in a Food Corporation there's free food all around me..it's hard to to cave in sometimes lol.

My pant size is a 31, but I want to get down to at least a 30, but 29 is my target
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I doubt you're overweight if that's your pant size.

Calculate your BMI.

mass in kg (1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)/ height in m^2 (0.0254 m = 1 in.)

<18.5 - underweight
18.5 - 24.9 - normal weight
25 - 29.9 - overwieght
>30 - obese

There's plenty of time before school starts to get in reasonable shape.
 
medickdb said:
I doubt you're overweight if that's your pant size.

Calculate your BMI.

mass in kg (1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)/ height in m^2 (0.0254 m = 1 in.)

<18.5 - underweight
18.5 - 24.9 - normal weight
25 - 29.9 - overwieght
>30 - obese

There's plenty of time before school starts to get in reasonable shape.
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Yeah but BMI's are misleading. Because somebody could be extremely muscular, which would result in their BMI being over 25, even though they're not overweight.
 
Chillywilly said:
Yeah but BMI's are misleading. Because somebody could be extremely muscular, which would result in their BMI being over 25, even though they're not overweight.
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I know, but it gives you a general idea.

It's funny you say that. There are a lot of really bulky (read: muscular) guys in the military that have issues come time for their physicals. Waist lines and BMI, any measurement really, can be misleading and need to be taken within context.
 
Please do nto worry about this. I have had some seriously obese students. They do fine.

And your classmates had better get used to dealing with the obese.

Chillywilly said:
Is anyone worried about being too fat or out of shape for OMM?
Don't get me wrong I diet and exercise, but I do work for a Food Corporation... and let's just say there's free food all around me 8am-4pm lol. I guess I can learn to cut down. Is it just me or is anyone else worried about looking porky in front of your classmates?😕
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Chillywilly said:
Omg you guys, I'm not 300lbs or anything. 😳 I'm probably 15-20 lbs overweight, but I think I can lose it by August. I have a steady diet, but since I work in a Food Corporation there's free food all around me..it's hard to to cave in sometimes lol.

My pant size is a 31, but I want to get down to at least a 30, but 29 is my target
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Oh please. Your pant size is a 31. Get over it.

By the way, calculate both BMI and body fat percentage to get the whole picture.
 
happypremed1 said:
Oh please. Your pant size is a 31. Get over it.

By the way, calculate both BMI and body fat percentage to get the whole picture.
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I know but last year my pant size was a 29, and now its a 31. I gotta cut the crap. 😛
 
Bacchus said:
Much harder to palpate/find landmarks.
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I know what you mean... I've noticed that I use scapular and iliac crest landmarks more in those situations to determine whereabouts on the spine. I imagine there would be a point on the scale where even those landmarks become elusive.
 
Rest assured, no one cares. There are alternate techniques for scenarios where normal ones won't work.

And while fat makes it harder to palpate, fat over thick muscle makes it worse. My friends keep telling me they never want me for a practical exam 🙁

😛
 
Chillywilly said:
Idk my mom said I was fat and needed to lose weight. Which is true. Im 5'10 and weight 180. Last summer I was 168. But my mom wants me at 160. It's deff doable
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Not for nothing but why do you let your mom dictate your weight? If you're happy with you and are young and healthy (I assume), then that weight and waist size is what a man should be at. Long as you're lifting. Nomsayin
 
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I'm 5'11 at ~205lbs and a 31-32 waist. Those BMI calculators don't exactly represent me well whatsoever hahah. It's all relative to muscle mass/body fat % really… Like others said, don't let other people dictate what you should or shouldn't look like. At the end of the day, as long as you're happy that's all that matters.
 
NontradCA said:
Not for nothing but why do you let your mom dictate your weight? If you're happy with you and are young and healthy (I assume), then that weight and waist size is what a man should be at. Long as you're lifting. Nomsayin
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NontradCA said:
Not for nothing but why do you let your mom dictate your weight? If you're happy with you and are young and healthy (I assume), then that weight and waist size is what a man should be at. Long as you're lifting. Nomsayin
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I am lifting but it would be nice to get down to 165 . Idk I guess I always listen to whatever my parents say with the exception of my sex life lol
 
Chillywilly said:
That was really rude and uncalled for. Judging by the way you talk, one can only imagine how you were raised by your mom. Show some class.
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You're right, I'm sorry, maybe it's not your mom that's the issue. You have no backbone to stand up to her. You're how old and you're mom is telling you how much you should weigh?
 
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