Greet and Treat
Every week we clear out the lab and usher in a mass of students, faculty and community members waiting to be treated. With first years eager to learn and second years excited to manipulate we commence our weekly “Greet and Treat.”
From “study necks” to bad backs, we utilize our
first year of training to correct a wide variety of dysfunctions. With OMM faculty close by, these sessions give us the chance to receive personalized advice to fine tune our methods and enhance our
diagnostic interpretations.
For almost all new students, this is their first experience in OMT. Many skeptical about the efficacy of manipulative medicine are urned into
believers when the debilitating neck pain they woke up
with is gone with a few well positioned techniques.
But Greet and Treat is about more than just ameliorating dysfunction. It gets first years excited about OMT and allows upperclassmen to bond with their new peers. It provides us with an opening to get away
rom the books and into the lab. What could be mistaken as any old
OMT lab is really a room full of student doctors learning, teaching and exploring osteopathy. It is a setting where we not only have the
opportunity to highlight our differences from our allopathic
counterpart, but a situation where we can strengthen our profession through the power of touch.
Michael J. Abadier
LMU-DCOM
National Representative
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OMT is alive and well at LMU-DCOM.
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