Q: Re: What Are Osteopathic Physicians
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expatient
on October 4th, 2007
Experienced User
| sillyakchick wrote: |
Often, when people hear about osteopathic manipulation, they compare it to chiropractic adjustments or massage therapy. In reality, osteopathic manipulation is different from both of these types of manual therapy for a number of reasons. One primary difference between osteopathic manipulation and other forms of therapy is that an osteopath has the medical training to treat underlying disease, as well as to treat muscle and spinal disorders and injuries. |
So do chiropractors as far as I have noticed. Well they don't directly treat muscles. When they open those spinal joint locks they release the pressure and back muscles relax. But sure the osteopathian treatment is more wide-ranging treatment.
Naprapathians, osteopathians and many others treat the whole body from toes to fingers and neck. Usually chiropractors only treat spine, but there are exeptions.
And there are many different kind of osteopathian schools: At least classic and ortopaedic. They do things differently.
| sillyakchick wrote: |
| Furthermore, osteopaths are skilled at being in tune with the body, and working with a patient’s own muscles and tissues to correct a problem, rather than forcing them into place, only to have the problem re-occur again. |
My osteopathians use the same technique as many chiropractors do: they use force to open spinal locks and also many other joints.
| sillyakchick wrote: |
| Osteopathic physicians believe that the body has innate self-healing mechanisms that are key to restoring well-being and maintaining health, and that the physician’s job is to provide the proper supportive therapy to help the person return to health. |
That is what all manipulative treatment specialists have learned at their schools. That is very much the truth.
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