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Build A Relationship With Your Doctor
Instead of building a relationship with a patient, doctors hug the omnipresent computer in the medical office, preoccupied with paper and notes for the insurance company. Patients are frequently met by disinterested, disconnected, rushed physicians, more focused on tests and prescribing medications than practicing the skills of caring for you, healing you and listening to you…
Osteopathic Medicine for Headaches
Headache: Seismic Tension in the Skull’s Plates
Chronic headache, whether tension, migraine, cluster or other, afflicts many individuals and can interfere with focus and the ability to function. Although symptoms are localized to the head, factors outside of the skull and brain are often responsible for headache or are major contributors to intractability and frequency…
Painkillers Are Not As Effective
Pain is a complex condition that involves biological, chemical, psychological, and social factors. Analgesic “painkillers” are usually not effective as a permanent therapeutic solution because of the multifaceted causes involved.
What are Proliferative Injections?
Ligaments hold bones and joints together. Tendons attach muscles to bone, near joints. When ligaments are injured from trauma, improper exercise or poor posture, they become overstretched, lax, inflamed and even torn. Bones may become misaligned which stretch the ligaments even more…
The Visceral Manipulation Solution
Individuals with these issues frequently go from practitioner to practitioner in frustration searching for solutions. The brilliant observation of Barral is that the source of the problem may be detected through listening,..
The History of Osteopathy
The practice of osteopathy was developed by Andrew Taylor Still in the late 19th century. Still was a medical doctor, but he broke off from traditional allopathic medicine after losing his wife and 3 daughters to meningitis…
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