Doctors of Osteopathy have been trained in both medicine and manipulation. Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) includes “regular” medical management as well as Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) which is a way of using the hands to help ease pain and improve body function.
OMT is a manual medicine that gently works on the whole body including the bones (similarly to chiropractors), the muscles (similar to massage), as well as the nerves, blood vessels, lymph, connective tissue, and internal organs. OMT can be safely performed on people of all ages, from newborns to elderly.
OMM can help with pain issues including acute pain from MVA or injury, and chronic pain such as headaches, neck or back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, temporomandibular joint disease, pain from pregnancy, scoliosis, endometriosis, pelvic pain, fibromyalgia, etc.
OMM can help with many medical issues including COPD/asthma, IBS, CHF, MS, scoliosis, sinusitis, bronchitis, infants with colic, newborns with difficulty breastfeeding, torticollis, etc.
Victoria at 2 years 4 months giving stuffy Cheetah Light a treatment