The Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Podcast

It was a joy conversing with Dr. Hruby. He is a knowledgeable, caring physician whose life is imbued by osteopathy. He shared with us in this episode how he treats chronic pain patient’s, as well as stories about some of the greats in the osteopathic world such as Ed Stiles, Phil Greenman, and Viola Frymann. I do apologize for the audio in this episode, my internet was on overload but hope that yo...

Listen in as we discuss career opportunities for graduates of an ONMM Residency. onmmpodcast@gmail.com

For Chinese medicine the liver is a source of rage. After experiencing a liver infection while traveling in India and a bought of rage while being treated months later in France, he began asking himself where this rage came from. He traced it back to his early childhood. As a French Osteopath he now treats children with emotional disorders. As he places his hands on them, he puts his intention on...

She is a wife, mom of a 17 year old, physician leader and educator who has a keen awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion. Throughout her medical practice she has found many of her patient’s hold their life stress in their trapezius, jaws, stomach and head. She doesn’t ignore these areas of restriction but also understands the person has spirit and mental health is an essential component of w...

In this conversation we spoke about the Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Center for Research at MSU. As practitioners who use OMT, we do not simply improve joint mobility, release muscle and fascial tension. We also engage the central nervous system of the person we are treating. This interaction and feedback system is quite difficult to measure. What about other tests such as the stork test, the s...

He has been practicing medicine for 40 years and has had as a career goal that of bringing the spirituality of the person into mainstream medicine. He specifies this is not a religious experience per se, but a realization we are more than body. He has dedicated his career to studying this phenomenon. For Dr. King the mind is the mental, emotion and psychological experience of the person. The spiri...

Enjoy this round table discussion about how osteopathy is different from modern wester medicine in its philosophical approach to human health. onmmpodcast@gmail.com

She describes herself as curious, creative and caring with the strength of gentleness. Dr. Dijamco wants to bring the intuitive aspects of medicine back to health; those aspects of health which are less tangible. She has the goal of teaching other healthcare professionals how to incorporate the mental, emotion and spiritual aspects of human health into their practice. As human beings we are bone,...

He is a lover of the fine arts and is a performing artist himself. He learned how to care for this population from Dr. Richard Bachrach a renowned Performing Arts Medicine physician who cared for many Broadway artists and other artists in Manhattan. This opened his eyes to a need in medicine - taking care of performing artists. We benefit from the talents of artists but who is going to take care o...

In this weeks podcast episode we will be going over a case study where we have a 31 y/o G5P5005 status post spontaneous vaginal delivery of a 10lb 1oz infant. Following delivery she presented with sharp excruciating pain of left hip and groin. She reported feeling a ‘pop’ with pushing the baby out and after delivery recovery, was unable to bear weight. X-ray of pelvis revealed 2.3cm pubic symphysi...

It all started out by doing the laundry at his Dad’s PT Clinic. This was the spark which sent him down the path to PT school. Currently he is a PT who values and uses manual therapies in his day to day practice. He became interested in manual therapy because he wanted to take his tools with him wherever he went. After 6 years of clinical practice though, he decided to attend an Orthopedic Residenc...

Helping rehabilitate a former triathlete after a serious accident made Dr. Goodman realize he wanted to dedicate his career to pain management. There were serendipitous moments in his life which led to the development of Foundation Training. Living a very active life and then having back pain himself at a very young age. Going to Chiropractic school 20 min away from the training facilities of the...

We all experience pain. From the moment we open our eyes to get out of bed we experience pain. What is pain and how do we as providers address it from the standpoint of PM&R, OMM and Psychiatry. Enjoy this intellectual yet casual conversation about Pain Theory. Email questions, comments or if you would like to be a guest on the podcast to: onmmpodcast@gmail.com

With her love for hospital medicine, internal medicine was a natural choice. When the house is on fire western medicine does well at putting the fire out. When you want to rebuild the house alternative forms of medicine are great options. Western medicine and alternative forms of medicine like OMT work hand in hand. Dr. Dean herself suffered from severe Guillain Barre which forced her to close her...

Her gastrointestinal pain drastically decreased after an osteopath treated her following 4 bowel surgeries at 21 years of age. She began moving better, had less bowel tension and gradually progressed back to her quality of life pre-surgery. She resolved to serve people in the same manner. Melanie is constantly learning with the goal of being able to individualize patient care. She strives to be pr...

She is a born healer, always wanting to help those with medical needs. She found medical school later in her career after being a massage therapist. As an FM and OMM doc she spends much of her career teaching osteopathic medical students and using her OMT skills to treat patients. Wherever she finds herself, she gives back to the community working at free clinics, using her OMT skills for the unde...

This year at the annual Convocation with the theme of Neuromusculoskeletal Physiology and the Osteopathic Concept, we asked a few physicians and medical students what they thought about the line from Dr. Still that it is the duty of the osteopath to find health, any physician can find disease. Here are their responses. This is a question I will be incorporating into every podcast episode. If you w...

The science of osteopathy is the science of supportive care. It’s tapping into the pharmacy within. Still has given us a philosophy of treatment – find the health by using manipulation to remove obstruction to the body and allowing nature to take its course. On the other hand, why do so many of us have unhealthy habits? The answer may lie in the trauma we all have experienced to different degrees....

This is a new monthly series on different osteopathic topics of interest. We used a round table discussion format as we enjoyed ourselves at a pizza restaurant. Hopefully the background noise isn't too distracting. We discussed aspects we love about ONMM, limitations of the profession and how to better teach osteopathic medical students. ONMM residents, an osteopathic medical student and an attend...

He is a visual spatial learner who was raised by his parents to serve others. Now he is a full-fledged Family Medicine and Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine physician practicing in Nova Scotia Canada. He loves treating the living anatomy underneath his hands and wants to share his knowledge and experience with the up-and-coming generations of osteopathic physicians. He stresses the importa...

As an osteopathic physician he wants to get to the bottom of WHY people feel the way they do. His clinic research and practice has led him to believe that all physical ailments have their origin in the mind particularly the unconscious mind. This has led him to pursue a better understanding of the human mind and in March he will be finishing his Masters in Humanistic Psychology. He believes in wha...

From a young age she wanted to become a doctor. The only challenge being she also loved dance. Movement, expressing her emotions and inner self through modern dance, which she did professionally, became a large part of her life. While a dancer she was a Pilates instructor. Her career in dance came to an abrupt end in a car accident. Movement was no longer free flowing, an expression of the inner s...

Pain may be caused by tissue damage, but it may also be masking a deep seeded attachment to one’s identity as a professional, a spouse/parent and as one sees themself. Living in pain may imbue every aspect of one’s life. This is a normal part of the human experience. How can we as clinicians help our patient’s work through pain attachment. Listen as Charlie Merrill and Jesse Guasco, DO walk us thr...

He is a Disney historian and board game aficionado. If you had to guess his specialty – you would be right – he’s a pediatrician. With an All-Star team of physicians teaching him OMM at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, it was not hard to take a liking and appreciation for OMT. During residency he was on the osteopathic medicine track, keeping up on his OMT skills and discussing...

Growing up with an M.D. Father and an M.D. herself, Dr. Miriam Mills shares her take on the relationship between the M.D. and D.O. communities. She talks about the distrust on both sides, the discrepancies in funding for research, and the slogan “if I didn’t learn it in medical school, it’s not important. She shares a keen insight into the vital importance of research in the field of manual medici...