Posted on 02/10/2010 1:49:20 PM PST by decimon
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gentle manipulation from an osteopathic doctor may relieve late-pregnancy back pain that frequently hinders bending, lifting, or walking, findings from a small study hint.
Doctors in osteopathic medicine (DOs) are medical doctors additionally trained in gentle manipulative techniques to help restore function, range of motion, and lessen pain in bones and adjoining muscles supporting the neck, back, chest, shoulders, and hips.
Osteopathic manipulation may particularly benefit pregnant women seeking medication-free back pain relief, note Dr. John C. Licciardone and colleagues at University of Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.
The study, in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, included 144 otherwise healthy pregnant women, about 24 years old on average, with moderate levels of back pain and related movement difficulties during late pregnancy.
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My grandmother said it was the easiest birth of her eight children (with an Osteopath). I can only say (having had the benefit of all the high tech advancements during the birth of my son) that considering she had the other seven at home, I would take her recommendation with a grain of salt.
May I also say that I’m glad she is resting peacefully with her Lord as I write this, otherwise, she’d slap me silly and give me such a tongue-lash you couldn’t believe! ;-)
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Makes perfect sense to me. I treated back pain in pregnancy with wine-and-7up, but osteopathic treatment would have been nice.
DO are not medical doctors. They may NOT use the designation MD.
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Just trying to clarify. Many DOs are quite competent but they have not been accepted at accredited medical colleges.
D.O.s are doctors of osteopathy, aka osteopathic physicians. MDs are allopathic physicians. You can find them both in the same post graduate medical programs, i.e. residencies.
Crudely, they are like a combined MD and chiropractor, although some DOs may take offense at that description. Some osteopaths believe they practice holistic medicine, as opposed to allopaths who are more systems oriented such as cardiologists, pulmonologists, gastroenterologists, etc. But DOs also go into all the specialties and subspecialties too.
IIRC, in California you can find the initials MD, DO in the same doc.
DO’s may not be MD’s but they certainly are Pysicians. I dealt with many DO’s as well as MD’s during my Banking career and found that I liked the DO’s better on average.
I found that most of the ones I knew had lives before becoming DO’s. One was an FBI agent, one was a chemist for DuPont (and a Korean War Army Officer Combat Veteran as well as a graduate of the Citadel) and my personal physician was a Pharmacist. All are extremely personable and bright. My Doctor is accredied in Internal Medicine and practices at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the premier Heart Institute in the United States.
My old family doc was a DO, I never had a problem with her.
My wife had back problems when she was pregnant with our son. Her doctor, a DO, performed a manipulation that relieved her pain. We had DO’s as our family doctor for years.
My grandfather, his two sisters, his mother, and her two sisters and two brothers were all Osteopathic physicians. My grandmother and another aunt attended nursing school at the same osteopathic college (Kirksville, MO, the “home” of osteopathy). My grandfather was also a surgeon.
We used a family practice group of osteopaths in Oklahoma and got excellent care, including an occasional prod of the pain in my hip by the “Old Doc.” The practice also included his sister, who did my prenatal care and deliveries, the sister’s husband, and a daughter (our GP) and son.
Yep. It doesn’t pay to “generalize” about any group of people.
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