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Who can't wait to start OMT?

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So work has been a drag lately, and my head, neck and back are KILLING me. I just want to hire a personal masseuse to put me to sleep each night. And I have friends at MSU-COM who talk about practicing OMT and being practiced on, and I just can not wait!!!!!

Anyone else excited to be practiced on daily for the next two years????
 
:hello: I'm with ya! From what I've heard it doesn't feel like a massage all the time, but I'm sure it will still be nice.
 
Dude, I cant wait for you jokers to learn so you can make my back and shoulder feel better. And the more it hurts the more I like it.... 😉.
 
Hopefully OMT will work on reducing my knee locking. I'm hoping its a muscle problem and not floating cartilage or something screwed up in there.
 
Too bad you don't live in DFW. You could go to one of TCOM's soft tissue clinics and let a student practice on you. :meanie:
 
Sign me up!
My lower back/sacral area feels like it pops now every time I work my abs. Something is DEFINITELY out of wack there.
 
I'm quite indifferent. I had some OMT done just to experience it and it felt good for about 15 minutes and then everything returned to normal. My joints are screwed.
 
rose351 said:
Dude, I cant wait for you jokers to learn so you can make my back and shoulder feel better. And the more it hurts the more I like it.... 😉.
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Then you'll like one of the facilitators in our lab. He's really good at what he does, but my god, it hurts sometimes....
 
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Me! My right sacroilliac joint has been killing me. I made an appt with a DO here in Colorado, but (long story with my health insurance) it could be upwards of $400. So I am waiting until I start KCOM and dealing with the pain until then.
 
Ahaha, Prions, that is a good song! I like the girls in the video wearing chains and bikinis though... classy. Thank doG we are out of the 80s
 
I do myofascial release on some of my clients and athletes. I've had women say that it hurts more than childbirth.
 
I got to watch a OMT lab at KCUMB before my interview (I got there early and admissions let me sit in on some classes)....I forgot what it's called, but it's a HVLA technique where the patient butterflies his or her legs and then the physician presses those knees as far as they'll go in 0.84 seconds. It looks more painful than childbirth, especially since i don't think they give an epidural before OMT lab, not in KC anyway.
 
TexasTriathlete said:
I do myofascial release on some of my clients and athletes. I've had women say that it hurts more than childbirth.
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😱 I've only experience one pain worse than childbirth and it was during childbirth. One word: penicillin. :scared:
 
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When I interviewed at Nova, my friend who is a second year helped me out. I had the worst head cold and my ears wouldn't pop after flying and she was able to pop my ears, get my lymph flowing and then a nice little neck rub. Pure bliss.

I'm sure that the hydration issue is due to the amount of fluid that is moved around and draw to the tissues being worked. Just like when you get a spa massage, they make you drink 24 oz of water before leaving and tell you to drink a lot of extra for the rest of the day.
 
EEL08 said:
😱 I've only experience one pain worse than childbirth and it was during childbirth. One word: penicillin. :scared:
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Are you allergic? I'm waaaay allergic . . . they haven't tried it on me since I was 2 because I almost died! 😱
 
prionsRbad said:
Are you allergic? I'm waaaay allergic . . . they haven't tried it on me since I was 2 because I almost died! 😱
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No but it burned like a son of a beast going into my IV!! 😱 It made me want to rip my arm off just to make the pain stop.
 
prionsRbad said:
Ooooh that sounds sooo painful! :scared:
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Yeah I don't know what they gave me with my first labor (no burning) but they better pick an alternative to penicillin the next time I push a baby out I tell you that much!!
 
I didn't think childbirth was all *that* bad. And no, I didn't have drugs/epidural/etc. I will say that the feeling my pelvis was about to just fall apart while walking in labor was.. well.. interesting. Very loose ligaments during that time.
 
ShyRem said:
I didn't think childbirth was all *that* bad. And no, I didn't have drugs/epidural/etc. I will say that the feeling my pelvis was about to just fall apart while walking in labor was.. well.. interesting. Very loose ligaments during that time.
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Oh, you're one of those. I'm so jealous. I had a friend who had 3 kids and her labor time went from 3 hours, 2 hours, to 55 minutes or something like that and didn't think it hurt that bad. I can not imagine anything worse than childbirth although I'm sure it exists. It didn't help that my first son was sunny side up and both of them have nearly off the charts sized heads. 👎
 
:laugh: yeah, my labor was literally 3 pushes for my first, and about 1.5 hours for my second.

The one I was so jealous of was this little itty bitty size 00 slip of a girl (I'm not kidding) who gave birth to an 8.5 pound baby and WENT HOME IN HER SIZE 00 REGULAR JEANS. Not even maternity jeans. Regular normal pre-pregnancy jeans.

I don't think I've ever seen anything just so darn unfair as that.
 
My wife had a c-section. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen!

She didn't seem to enjoy it as much as I did though.
 
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Speaking of c-sections...

I heard about a chick whose girlfriend attempted to increase the diameter of her vagina with a knife, so that she would be able to take a fist.

I love the ER.
 
t-funk said:
Oh, you're one of those. I'm so jealous. I had a friend who had 3 kids and her labor time went from 3 hours, 2 hours, to 55 minutes or something like that and didn't think it hurt that bad. I can not imagine anything worse than childbirth although I'm sure it exists. It didn't help that my first son was sunny side up and both of them have nearly off the charts sized heads. 👎
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my poor mother had a 32 hour labor with me, no drugs, I can't imagine how painful it must be, not to mention 32 hours, that has to be against the Geoneva Convention!
 
slim78 said:
My wife had a c-section. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen!

She didn't seem to enjoy it as much as I did though.
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I got to watch my sister have her 4th C-section (she doesn't dilate) and it was sooooooooooo cool. Although I wasn't allowed to ask questions because she didn't want to know what was going on at all. Although I will note that keloid scarring + lots of C-sections = not good at all.
 
t-funk said:
Oh, you're one of those. I'm so jealous. I had a friend who had 3 kids and her labor time went from 3 hours, 2 hours, to 55 minutes or something like that and didn't think it hurt that bad. I can not imagine anything worse than childbirth although I'm sure it exists. It didn't help that my first son was sunny side up and both of them have nearly off the charts sized heads. 👎
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Kidney stones. Hands down. Well, not that I have give birth to compare the two, but considering it took me 6 days to pass a 2mm stone and the pain was so bad I told the ER doc, "well, I guess I'm never having kids! This is aweful!" He laughed and said, "every woman I have treated for kidney stones tells me that they are worse than child birth."

So I am pretty confident in my assessment that kidney stone passing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> child birth!
 
missmarymac8 said:
I got to watch a OMT lab at KCUMB before my interview (I got there early and admissions let me sit in on some classes)....I forgot what it's called, but it's a HVLA technique where the patient butterflies his or her legs and then the physician presses those knees as far as they'll go in 0.84 seconds. It looks more painful than childbirth, especially since i don't think they give an epidural before OMT lab, not in KC anyway.
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Oh, you were in that lab, huh? One of my classmates had that done on her by one of the professors and confirmed that it was painful.

Anyway, that was a good lab to attend. Much easier to follow than the sacral stuff. Innominates are much easier.
 
spicedmanna said:
Oh, you were in that lab, huh? One of my classmates had that done on her by one of the professors and confirmed that it was painful.

Anyway, that was a good lab to attend. Much easier to follow than the sacral stuff. Innominates are much easier.
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Yeah... I was the one in jeans....😳 I thought both the lab and virus/diarrhea class were very interesting, made me so excited to be joining y'all in the fall! Yay!
 
1 year post partum, and my pelvis is still a mess. Oh well....

I hate to break it to all the newbies, but the first few months of OMM lab is a lot of touchy feely stuff. You don't jump right into HVLA. But if you are lucky enough to have a 2nd year class, hit them up for all that they're worth.
 
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Zerosixjt said:
I hate to break it to all the newbies, but the first few months of OMM lab is a lot of touchy feely stuff. You don't jump right into HVLA. But if you are lucky enough to have a 2nd year class, hit them up for all that they're worth.
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I wasn't expecting to jump right into the tough stuff, but what do you mean by touchy feely stuff? I was thinking that the first few months would be learning to palpitate and feel for muscles and bones and such. Am I wrong?

It doesn't matter anyways, but for those of you that are familiar with the 5 love languages, my top one in physical touch, so I really don't mind getting the touchy feely stuff done to me either!
 
I can only speak for my program, but yes you are correct. You start with palpation and landmark location, maybe some soft tissue. It takes a few months to get used to using your hands, and for the comfort level to grow between the students.
 
HrvatskiDoktor said:
Kidney stones. Hands down. Well, not that I have give birth to compare the two, but considering it took me 6 days to pass a 2mm stone and the pain was so bad I told the ER doc, "well, I guess I'm never having kids! This is aweful!" He laughed and said, "every woman I have treated for kidney stones tells me that they are worse than child birth."

So I am pretty confident in my assessment that kidney stone passing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> child birth!
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My wife passed a couple of big kidney stones at the 4-5 month period in her pregnancy. The docs all told her that child birth was a cake walk compared to what she just went through. SHE screamed at the doctors during and after delivery that they were full of crap. So in my wifes opinion child birth>>>>>>>>kidney stones. SORRY
 
307Doc said:
My wife passed a couple of big kidney stones at the 4-5 month period in her pregnancy. The docs all told her that child birth was a cake walk compared to what she just went through. SHE screamed at the doctors during and after delivery that they were full of crap. So in my wifes opinion child birth>>>>>>>>kidney stones. SORRY
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Wow! That's kind of surprising b/c every doctor I have talked to about my kidney stones told me that child birth will much less painful! I guess part of my reasoning was that the pain from the kidney stone started on Wednesday and didn't reduce or go away (even with meds!) until it passed on Monday! Don't read this as my lessening your wife's pain, it's just know what I went through for those 5 days, it's hard for me to imagine a worse pain for that long!
 
OCHO said:
At 319 in the morning you are posting stuff like this? Dude, you are cracking me up! Too freakin funny.

Man, I need to stay up late more often, with TT, EEL and Prions so I can have as much fun as they are. Can we say, Jealous?

hehehehe
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I work the night shift at the ER. I am always up late.
 
HrvatskiDoktor said:
Wow! That's kind of surprising b/c every doctor I have talked to about my kidney stones told me that child birth will much less painful! I guess part of my reasoning was that the pain from the kidney stone started on Wednesday and didn't reduce or go away (even with meds!) until it passed on Monday! Don't read this as my lessening your wife's pain, it's just know what I went through for those 5 days, it's hard for me to imagine a worse pain for that long!
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I'm not saying your wrong and I'm right. This was just my wifes experience, but she was only in labor for half a day. So nothing compared to your five days of agony. I'm sure everyones experience of kidney stones and labor is totally different.
 
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