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Osteopathic Medicine

You are more than just the sum of your body parts. That's why doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.s) practice a "whole person" approach to health care. Instead of just treating specific symptoms, osteopathic physicians concentrate on treating you as a whole.

Osteopathic physicians understand how all the body's systems are inter-connected and how each one affects the others. They focus special attention on the musculoskeletal system, which reflects and influences the condition of all other body systems.

The use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), a hands-on diagnostic and treatment modality brings an added dimension to health care. Using a variety of OMT techniques, manual force is applied to treat structural abnormalities, and can apply specific corrective forces to alleviate joint restriction and misalignment.

Manipulative medicine is commonly used to address acute or chronic neck and back pain, plus a variety of other musculo-skeletal abnormalities.

For more information on OMT and osteopathic medicine you can visit www.osteopathic.org

The Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) is an anatomically based perspective for envisioning and treating orthopedic injuries and certain medical conditions that until now have been either resistant to treatment or healed slowly or incompletely with current methods. American physician Stephen Typaldos, D.O., is the originator and developer of the FDM.

Since its conception in 1991, Dr. Typaldos has written, taught, and promoted the fascial distortion model approach to physicians and international osteopaths across the United States, Europe, and Japan. (In German, FDM is translated as "fasziendistorsionsmodell" and in Japanese it is "kinmaku waikyoku yousiki.")

The clinical significance of the FDM is that through its manual application it can bring rapid and complete recovery to a large number of previously inadequately treated musculoskeletal injuries such as pulled muscles, ankle sprains, frozen shoulders, knee strains and a whole host of other athletic injuries. The FDM, however, is far more than just a collection of new manipulative techniques. Instead it is a comprehensive and entirely fresh perspective of envisioning and understanding injuries that competitively challenges current approaches and is poised to revolutionize the practice of medicine.