http://www.democraticunderground.com/11425124Oh my.
One wonders what the mineral oil primitive, who's rabidly anti-osteopathic medicine, is going to say.
<<has no opinion, good or bad, about osteopathic medicine.
dixiegrrrrl (26,336 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:04 AM
Anyone know what an osteopath does?
or have been to one?
I am going to be seeing one in a week or so, referred by my primary doc.
Waltons_Mtn (177 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:12 AM
2. My wife the nurse sends patients to rehab hospitals that have Osteopaths on staff.
Since she used to work for that hospital too she knows them. She says they can really help with joint pain.
Windy (5,869 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:16 AM
3. osteopaths are physicians who DO go through the exact same clinical rotations
As MDs. The difference is in the approach to practice. They are taught to be more patient centered. They also take additional classes over and above medical school classes in spinal cord manipulation which most never use. DOs can take the MD step tests and the DO COMLEX tests if they so choose. There is no difference. My son is in DO school at LECOM so I know of what I speak.
Esse Quam Videri (425 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:22 AM
4. My primary care physician is an osteopath
No complaints. Best that I have had as far as really paying attention to all of my issues.
dixiegrrrrl (26,336 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 12:13 PM
8. that is what I am looking for....
Primary doc is good, but I need someone who look at the whole range of symptoms to determine if I have muscle problems, bone problems, or what.
My reading about osteopaths indicated they took the whole body approach, which is what I want.
HeeBGBz (7,271 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 12:14 PM
9. Diagnostician?
I think that's what I was told once. They are good at figuring out what's wrong with you.
kestrel91316 (41,875 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 12:38 PM
10. They are physicians. You usually won't notice any difference between an MD family practice doctor and a DO family practice doctor. IMHO the DO's have a little chiropracter-ish leaning when it comes to orthopedic and back problems.
Chiropractors.
Now, that's something franksolich won't have anything to do with, the quacks.
When franksolich was 18 years old and went to a county fair, the county association of chiropractors was holding a "free clinic" there.
franksolich went in to be examined.
The chiropractor got all concerned and worried, telling me I was developing curvature of the spine, and it needed treatment.
The past several generations, there
has been a genetic tendency to develop that condition, and many of my maternal relatives did, a few of them degenerating into near-humpbackery. The worst was a great-aunt, who walked around as if an upside-down "L," but probably most of that was due to the rough treatment she got at the hands of the Korean socialists, 1950-1953.
So I sweated about this, and figured I'd have it looked into by a medical professional sooner or later.
Well, here it is, 30 years later, and it's never been looked into, because there was no reason to look into it.
<<has never even had a back-ache in life.
<<spent a great deal of working life in "back-breaking" manual labor, including bending 20' 370-pound steel/aluminum pipes into posts for basketball backboards, among other things.
<<back's still ramrod-straight, no discomfort.
<<thinks chiropractors are quacks.
Samjm (35 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 01:32 PM
13. Whole body approach
Our primary care doc is a DO, and we LOVE him. Generally speaking Osteopaths take a more whole body approach to treatment, and try to not only fix the symptoms but try and find the root cause and work on that too.
Warpy (64,878 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 05:14 PM
15. Osteopaths are generalists who focus on nutrition, posture and other non invasive treatments to complement allopathic medicine. You can find a lot of them working in rehab settings. I have worked with interns and residents in mainstream hospitals because they have to do the same treadmill that MDs have to do. Many MDs work with DOs to help patients with chronic issues.
They're knowledgeable practitioners, not quacks, and I think you'll find the experience rewarding.
^^the defrocked warped primitive who makes Andrea Dworkin look sexually appealing.
