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OzDDS said:If you are saying that OMT is used in conjuntion with drugs to increase profusion to assist in the delivery of said drugs to areas of the body, wouldn't you get the same effect by getting a gym membership and getting an occasional sports massage? The emphasis on OMT philosophy being enough reason to create an entirely different medical degree just seems a bit of an overdramatic.
I'm not going to try to make a believer out of you. No sense beating a dead horse that won't listen.
Osteopathy deserves to be a separate entity because it spawned from a line of thinking that was extremely unique from that of it's counterparts at the time (early 1900's). Both allopathy and osteopathy have evolved greatly in the past 100 years, and have become very much the same. Osteopathic medicine has changed so much that it's founders would probably roll in their graves if they saw DO's utilizing the same technology, drugs, procedures as MD's. But that is what makes medicine great. Constantly adapting to better serve the patient. There are reasons osteopathy has survived the past 100 years and it isn't because DO's are awesome at marketing. It has survived because DO's recognized the need to incorporate advancing technology, better surgical procedures, and an ever expanding list of drugs into its patient care. But the foundation of osteopathy is still strong. It's principles are ever present in the curriculum, showing students how structure and function are interrelated, how simple manipulative techniques can aid in diagnosis and treatment, giving them one more "tool" to utilize in caring for their future patients.
Osteopathy doesn't need to validate itself just because you don't "believe" in OMT. ****, half the 2nd year students probably didn't believe it's effects until they saw first hand the benefits it provides. But that is what it takes these days right? Seeing is believing.
The profession has survived the AMA's futile efforts at combining the two branches, and will do so for a long time. 😎
