Why Is the Osteopathic Medical Philosophy in Treating Acute and Chronic Pain Considered a More Cost-Effective Adjunct to Other Traditional Medical Therapies
Culvert Chronicles, The › August 20, 2009
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Two types of treatments are commonly used in clinical practice: passive (no patient participation) and active (patient participation). These types are further subdivided into subgroups; direct and indirect. Patients experience indirect techniques as "going away from a restriction" and direct techniques as "going against a restriction." Some examples of treatments used includes soft tissue type techniques and articulatory type techniques. Table 1 summarizes the osteopathic modalities used in the management of pain (see also Table 2 for detail descriptions of the osteopathic treatment modalities). Note that "indirect" techniques activate inherent mechanisms to reduce inappropriate neuromuscular afferent impulses, and involves movement in the opposite direction of motion restriction. "Direct' techniques, on the other hand, involve a force applied in the same direction of movement that encounters a motion restriction or pathological barrier.
OMT is an holistic approach involving patient-practitioner interaction and purposeful physical contact. Clinical studies have reported decreased blood pressure" and decreased anxiety" following a "hands-on" type of treatment. While it is tempting to reduce osteopathic manipulation to a series of specific treatments for specific problems, osteopathic practice would lose its identity as osteopathic manipulation and become merely manual medicine. The term rnanual medicine implies a general form of treatment applied by the hands. The term osteopathic manipulation, however, indicates that the physician is applying the four basic principles of osteopathicphilosophy.; The true osteopathicapproach cannot be broken down into isolatedprocedures specific for particular complaints - the osteopathic approach treats the patient as a whole.See the full content of this document
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Why Is the Osteopathic Medical Philosophy in Treating Acute and Chronic Pain Considered a More Cost-Effective Adjunct to Other Traditional Medical Therapies
Osteopathy is a philosophy of medical care that combines the needs of patients-with the current practices and specialties of medicine but with an emphasis on the interrelationships between structure and function and appreciation of the body's ability to heal itself. There are four key principles of osteopathic philosophy.
* The body is a single system that includes effects...See the full content of this document
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