osteopathic

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A: A DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) is a physician just as an MD is a physician.

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of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine

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adjective

of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for osteopathic.

adjective

of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine

Example sentences

A: A DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) is a physician just as an MD is a physician.

Good DPT with a team of PTs and PTAs, and possibly also see a DO who can do osteopathic manipulation therapy (OMT).

The difference was that participants receiving osteopathic manipulative medicine required less pharmaceutical intervention.

If you want an alternative licensing board, the osteopathic boards are it.

Besides, there are alternatives--some states have separate osteopathic boards that license D.

They are dangerous and I an certain osteopathic therapy brought more actual knowledge to PT than psychoanalysis ever brought to psychology.

It's distinct from osteopathic medicine, which is an actual medical science.

Most osteopathic medical schools teach real medicine these days.

Perhaps what we are doing is still considered allopathic (most strategies are informed with research a la pubmed), with an osteopathic approach (whole body).

Easy, just apply to a osteopathic medicine program.

Holistic, osteopathic, chiropractic, you name it.

In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 1999, researchers concluded that osteopathic manipulative medicine and traditional drug therapy resulted in equivalent resolution of lower back pain in a nearly identical time frame.

Quote examples

Because their training also includes the scientifically bankrupt "osteopathic manipulative medicine", presented as if it were real medicine.

Because their training also includes the scientifically bankrupt "osteopathic manipulative medicine I'm sorry and I don't say this lightly but you should really just shut up.

I google'd and Urban Dictionary'd and I came up with the "Tennessee Osteopathic Medical Association" which my gut tells me is not what you're trying to achieve.

They aren't "Doctors." In the United States when people refer generally to "doctors" they mean physicians and surgeons with a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree who are licensed to practice medicine.

Proper noun examples

Osteopathic schools do have some additional training in spinal manipulation as the article says but the curricula are now substantially identical otherwise and in the vast majority of states both have the same scope of practice.