Dealing with Pain: Osteopathic Manipulation Treatments

Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is hands on care, in which your physician will treat, diagnose, or prevent illness using manual palpitations. The underlying principle holds that the patient’s history of illness and physical trauma is written into the body’s structure. A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) will gently move muscles and joints using techniques including stretching, especially with gentle pressure and resistance. 

Your physician will have been specially trained in the musculoskeletal system, which is comprised of an intricate system of muscles, nerves, and bones. Their nuanced and intricate understanding of the interconnections between all facets of the body means that a DO can locate a “blueprint” of an illness through the way the musculoskeletal system is connected. 

How Does it Work?

The aim of OMT is to relieve joint restriction by focusing on misalignment, this is done by with a focus on manually treating structural and tissue abnormalities, restoring muscle strength by promoting tissue balance, and finally – and potentially most importantly, by promoting the overall movement of blood flow throughout the body.

Just as there are many types of chronic pains, there are a multitude of treatment options from medication to the hands-on techniques detailed above. 

Our physicians’ practice in any school of medicine, but our DOs have taken the time to receive an additional 300-500 hours in the study of the body’s muscular skeletal system. Their highly developed sense of touch allows them to understand physical traumas that are written into the body’s structure by palpitating the patients living anatomy.

Who Can it Help?

As well as helping people with localized musculoskeletal damage, OMT has been clinically proven to help these other common illnesses.

·       Asthma

·       Sinus Disorders

·       Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

·       Migraines

·       Menstrual Pains

How Do I Get Referred?

Please contact us at The Mount Sinai Department of Rehabilitative Medicine and make an appointment today or to speak to one of our DO physicians.

If you have or would like to be recommended a OST and would like to do it with us at Mount Sinai, or if you are having one with us soon and would like more information, please contact us on (212) 241-6321) to see if our physicians can further help.