Introduction to Osteopathy & Osteopathic Medicine - Osteopathy & osteopathic medicine
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Hi, this is Dr. Simcha Shapiro for expert village. We're here today talking about osteopathy.
As you might guess, I am an osteopath and we're sitting here in the Listeninghans in
Jerusalem, Israel. The first question that you might have is what is osteopathy? Osteopathy
is a system of conventional medicine with a holistic perspective that takes into account
a specialization on the body, the muscular skeletal system. What in the world does any
of that mean? It means that osteopaths in the United States are fully trained physicians,
same training as an M.D., but we have D.O., doctor of osteopathy after our name, in order
to show that we have this special training. In addition to all of the regular training
of medical school, we get hands on osteopathic training on how to treat the body, the system
of muscles, bones, and nerves in order to help things function more efficiently and
more effectively. You will see osteopaths who go into every aspect of medicine, into
everything from family medicine to surgery and you will see osteopaths practicing all
over the United States and really all over the world. Now, there are some differences
in osteopaths who are trained in other parts of the world that are important to know. All
osteopaths outside, who are trained outside of the United States, are trained only in
the hands on treatments and not in the full spectrum of medicine.
