The Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Podcast

This years AAO 2023 Convocation has as its theme: “Neuromusculoskeletal Physiology and the Osteopathic Concept”. The goal is for clinicians to better understand key components of patient’s musculoskeletal dysfunctions. There will be a wide variety of topics such as sagittal plane imbalance, the importance of supination/pronation, tissue and spinal overload, intercranial hemodynamics, infant OMT, c...

Enjoy our journal article discussion about the 5 categories of arch collapse and what to look out for on your physical examination of the foot and ankle. This discussion may greatly enhance your ability to diagnose foot and ankle pathology. It certainly expanded my view of what to look out for when a patient’s come in with foot discomfort. A link of the article is included in the show notes along...

Dr. Veneziano is living her life on earth in a meaningful way; aligning with nature to be of service to those around her. Each day she connects to her body to navigate the world, trusting her intuition. She says, thinking from the guidance of an awake body, feeds the brain. There is a need to reset and reorient to our original feeling body. All living being exists in their most basic form as waves...

With his anthropology background and an extensive knowledge of bones, orthopedics and OMM were natural interests. Great osteopathic physicians such as Bob Ward influenced him with their abilities to diagnose and treat with the skills and empathy of their hands. Throughout his career he has seen the clinical benefits of OMT for his patients and has taken his experience and knowledge to the medical...

He began paying for PT school as a concrete finisher, working long hours with his hands finishing sidewalks. Today he continues working with his hands as a Family Medicine and ONMM trained physician, treating people with the greatest respect and an inquisitive desire to help them reach health. He is a keen observer, paying close attention to the intimate relationship between the physiology and str...

A physical therapist who treats athletes from all levels, from those just starting out, to high level professional athletes. It all started out with a back injury when skiing moguls at 18. By 6 months his body recovered and then spontaneously at 22 the back pain returned. Reflecting on the experience years later the explanation seemed to lie in his then life stressors. From an early on strict biom...

At the ripe old age of 85 he has spent his career learning from some of the greats in osteopathic medicine. He learned the principles of functional positional release from George Laughlin, D.O. the grandson of AT Still. He learned the muscle energy technique from the founder, Fred Mitchell Sr. In 1968 he took over a prominent osteopathic physician’s practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Perrin T....

A lover of sports, particularly Notre Dame football, jazz music, and fishing. He is the first doctor of his family, finding a home in osteopathic medical school. During his medical school years he became a predoctoral OMM fellow, spending that year learning the principles of OMM and honing his skills. Wanting to make sports an important part of his practice, he set foot down the path toward a care...

His medical journey began while on a repelling adventure in undergrad, when he helped rescue an injured climber who had fallen 80 ft. Following this experience, he began his medical journey. Having grown up building things and thinking like an engineer, the philosophy and concepts of osteopathy were a natural fit. He was blessed with incredible mentors such as Ed Stiles who taught him the importan...

She does Buddhist meditation, dance, is an actress, a theatrical director, a 40 year advocate for children and an M.D. who is as Osteopathic as they come! She has done extensive osteopathic pediatric research throughout her career and for this we thank her. She holds a special place for children with Down Syndrome and has learned many a lesson from them. Following a motor vehicle accident in 1988...

An Aikido martial artists, an athlete, osteopath and a curious mind; Jon Marshall never stops learning. He sustained an injury which lead him to the healing art of osteopathy. As the successful business owner of “Back in health” he works with people from all walks of life, dancers, patients with headaches, weekend warriors and elite athletes. Essentially anyone who wants to look, feel and move bet...

With a father who was a cardiologist he witnessed the sacrifices, joys and impact of being a physician. He knew before the start of medical school, sports medicine was for him. He was a kinesthetic, hands-on learner. When deciding where to go to medical school he discovered osteopathic medicine and quickly identified with the philosophy. Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine quickly became his favorit...

She is the Founder and CEO of her own business “In Motion Therapy” and Doctor of Physical Therapy. She has a growth mindset and works to motivate her team members to do the same. She values the hands-on approach to patient care and is an expert in pelvic floor therapy. Early on in her career she saw that the bands and clams of common physical therapy treatments were not always helping her patients...

Two years into residency she felt like she was on the medical hamster wheel, she was not as satisfied and fulfilled with her profession as she hoped on that first day of medical school. Management was pushing for quicker turnover times in surgery, hurrying her while taking care of patients with delicate health. When it became too much she decided to take her career satisfaction into her own hands,...

He sees patients from the perspective of a physiologist, family medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine trained physician. He has read and reread the writings of AT Still and the history of osteopathic medicine, incorporating these into his practice. He and his wife are the hosts of the podcast “Osteopathy Unplugged”, an audio textbook of osteopathic medicine. Please enjoy this very insight...

He sees patients from the perspective of a physiologist, family medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine trained physician. He has read and reread the writings of AT Still and the history of osteopathic medicine, incorporating these into his practice. He and his wife are the hosts of the podcast “Osteopathy Unplugged”, an audio textbook of osteopathic medicine.

Her journey began when the medical profession had failed her. No physician could figure out what was causing her rib pain which she had for years, until she met an osteopathic physician. After receiving treatment her quality of life improved and she knew becoming an osteopathic physician was the path for her. Now having worked for two years as an attending she continues educating her patient’s on...

The book “Touch of Life” written by Dr. Robert Fulford fell into his hands while he was in Japan. This led him down the path towards a career in osteopathic medicine and enkindled in him a firm desire to practice manual healing. The man who wrote the book that led him to osteopathic medicine continues to inspire and be a role model for his practice. Kindness, patience, empathy and humility are sta...

Through his practice of Kabbalah mysticism he has learned how to sense and perceive the pulse of life in creation. The crashing waves of the sea and breath of the forest has taught him the importance of inner silence. For Dr. Rothstein, OMT is more than pushing and palpating. He saw this exemplified in an old osteopath during his early exploration of medicine. Later on, he too would become a Famil...

He has been preserving Osteopathic history and promoting its philosophy as the director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, MO since 2001. He is an international speaker on the topic of osteopathic history. Not only does he preserve the history of osteopathic medicine, he has helped make documentaries, one winning a Historical Emmy award in 2017: called “The Feminine Touch”. He ha...

It was not love at first sight. There was some head scratching and questioning about why OMT worked, without satisfactory answers. It took dedicated reading and a mentor like Phil Greenman, D.O. to demonstrate and explain why and how OMT works. Dr. Greenman lives on through Dr. DeStefano as she strives to teach the next generation of osteopathic physicians about OMT. For her OMT is not about learn...

He is the oldest graduate of Osteopathic Medical School at 61 years old, a PhD in biomechanical engineering, a former NASA engineer/researcher, a pilot and now an OMT doctor. He is a lifelong learner, who enjoys serving others, heck he’s almost 80 and is still working more than full time. He has an inquisitive mind and endless drive to look for the answers. In this episode he shares with us his th...

Dr. John Morasso has always been drawn to sports and pushing his body to the limit. Witnessing a friend return to sports after being treated by a D.O. and his own experience with manual treatments showed him the value of OMT. He entered medical school with a desire to educate his hands and imbue himself with osteopathic philosophy. Now working as a primary care sports medicine physician, OMT makes...

In this episode we learn about Dean Amalfitano’s family heritage, his hobby of cooking Italian food and traveling the world. He talks about his experience with OMT as a DO, PhD student at MSUCOM and what this specialty means to him. He shares his vision and hope for the field of Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and reiterates his desire that MSU be a leader in the development of this fiel...

His mother noticed her son always leaning to one side at meal time. After convincing the doctors to do a workup they found he had an extra hemivertebra between T12-L1 and an extra rib attached to that vertebra. He began seeing Dr. Barbour an osteopathic physician who worked on him for many years treating both his back pain and headaches. At the time it appeared to be voodoo that somehow worked, bu...