Foundations of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine I

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This is the first in a four-year series of courses. Osteopathic principles, practices, and philosophies are the foundation of Osteopathic Medicine and will create the lens through which patients will be viewed throughout your career. In the Foundations of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) course, we will spend most of the first year focused on the musculoskeletal system, but that is only an avenue for teaching the fundamentals of palpation, patient evaluation, and osteopathic manipulation. With practice, you learn how to apply the skills learned to the visceral systems and the entire nervous system, affecting the whole person, body, mind, and spirit. As a cumulative course, each trimester will build upon the foundation of the previous course material and treatment methods: exploring the theory of the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, and treatment techniques.