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Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine / Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.s) represent a separate, yet equal branch of American Medical Care. D.O.s are fully licensed physicians and surgeons with equal rights of M.D.s including prescribing medications.
D.O.s practice “whole person” approach to medicine. Instead of just treating specific symptoms or illnesses, they regard your body as an integrated whole. Mind, body, and spirit. They have a focus on preventative health care.
D.O.s receive extra training in the musculoskeletal system – your body’s interconnected system of nerves, muscles and bones that make up two-thirds of your body’s mass. This training provides Osteopathic Physicians with a better understanding of the ways that an injury or illness in one part of the body can affect another.
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) is incorporated in the training and practice of Osteopathic Physicians. With OMT, Osteopathic Physicians use their hands to diagnose injury and illness, and to encourage your body’s natural tendency toward good health and healing.
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