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Summary: Find out what type of patient most benefits from seeing an Osteopath in this free health video.
Dr. Simcha Shapiro, D.O. is the Director of Listening Hands Institute and a physician trained in the USA at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He...read more
"This is Dr. Simcha Shapiro for expert village. We're going to talk a few minutes before we get to a demonstration about who should see an osteopath. When we say an osteopath here, I am particularly talking about people who specialize in osteopathic manual therapy, OMT and it's just important to note that many physicians who are osteopaths, who are trained in osteopathic manual therapy don't practice it so much so. So, if you're looking for somebody who does osteopathic manual therapy, it's important for you to call their office and ask if they do that. And certainly if somebody has a specialization in it, the specialization is called Neuro-muscular medicine. So, then you will have a wonderful experience of having osteopathic manual therapy performed on you. So, who is appropriate to go see somebody who specializes in Osteopathy? The appropriate person, really, most people can benefit, I'm sure most people out there have various aches and pains and certainly deal with that. Many of my patients accompany with back pain, joint pain, headaches, chronic sinus problems, chronic breathing problems because remember we're talking about helping the anatomy to work better and more efficiently. So, we can free up the whole moving mechanism from the anatomical side to help the person breathe more easily and help the delivery of the medication they are taking. That's the integrative aspect here. And, also people come up with, with digestive problems, and we treat pregnant women, people who are after surgery and have pain, there are so many different types of people that come in for treatment, but most of my patients comes to me for treatment of various types of pain. We're going to be showing you some techniques now. Now these techniques are professional techniques and the purpose of showing you is so that you can know what to expect in showing up in an osteopathic treatment. The purpose of this is not to practice this yourself. It should only be practiced by trained professionals and of course if you are an osteopathic student or professional and want to watch this and figure out a new technique by all means. But, for everybody else, please don't try this at home. This is only for the purpose of you to know what to expect when you come to your osteopath and know what's going to be done to help you so much better."
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