Osteopathy Personal Statement

It is difficult to describe my entire experience with osteopathic medicine, as it has played a large part in who I am. Throughout my life, I have lived and participated in the osteopathic community. From physician father to physician friends or from my own personal family doctor, I have been exposed to the osteopathic physician. I have spent time in an osteopathic clinic. I have worked with the disabled. Even though, I have volunteered for many individuals and organizations, one of my most memorable activity was as a young girl, supporting the elderly in an assisted living home. I adopted the elderly and spent hours encouraging them. My exposure goes back to my childhood.

Summary sentence 1: In the first paragraph of the article by Bernadette Starzee he discusses a bit of information about an osteopathic doctor, Sheldon Yao. He talks about how Yao got into osteopathic medicine.

I have always heard the phrase that as one journey ends another one begins, but I never truly understood how accurate this phrase could be for me. The efforts to discover what was causing my pain was an ironically distressing journey of confusion, bafflement, and disappointment up until this appointment. I will forever remember WellSpan Orthopedics because it provided a reason for my hip pain that was just dismissed by others, but opened up a whole new realm of discovery about my health.

Osteopathic Assessment : Listen with your body Ever wondered why an osteopath can say a lot about you even though you just met? Do osteopath’s read your minds? What kind of assessments do osteopaths do? Why do we notice habits that even you do not notice? Why can an osteopath tell a lot about you after your first session?

Introduction: Client My patient, MG was a 72-year-old female who came to the emergency department because of a fall in her bathroom. Her admitting diagnosis was a right hip fracture. Other concurrent health challenges she had were: hypertension (HTN), high cholesterol, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and chronic kidney disease (CKD). MG was a full code status with no known food or drug allergies.

I can honestly say that nutrition was not my first choice, or at least I thought it was not my first choice; for the past few years I always assumed that physical therapy was my future career. I spent my four years of undergrad studying Exercise and Sports Science because I wanted to learn every aspect of the human body, the biomechanics, physiology and even the human psyche of how the body interacts and ways to improve upon so that I can become a good physical therapist. During this time and actually before attending college, I was always in self-awareness of my body, nutritionally and physically. Consciously aware of what I was allowing into my body and making an effort to be physically active was a life hobby for me, little did I know that this was an immense stepping stone for what I was truly meant to be.

Where the osteopathic philosophy is based on an all-inclusive approach, the MDs follow the allopathic approach. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still introduced the osteopathic form of medicine in 1874. According to him, all body systems are dependent upon each other and are interrelated. Kirksville, Missouri saw the first osteopathic school in 1892, which was opened by Dr.

To me, podiatry is one of the most exciting fields in medicine. Although I have long held a desire for health sciences, before attending an appointment with a podiatrist I was unaware that such an exciting profession even existed. But after closing the doctor’s door, I opened a new door for myself.

The doctor then determined that he had antisocial personality disorder which the treatments would not

This then led to an actually diagnosis of a psychopath, because in their mind he had to have something. This information was compared to a previous psychopath would look like, he fitted the picture. By the verdict people already though something was wrong, and even if there wasn’t, something had to be wrong enough that he could fake it which was what anchor everyone’s beliefs that he could not be realise after wards. People made judgments quickly without having to spend a lot of time analyzing information of his

I have always wanted to understand the science behind disease and its treatment. Perhaps that sprang from watching my father, a physical therapist, treat his patients, but it continues even today. As a teenager I was a champion at Carrom, a cue sport requiring strategic thinking and what I call “precise intuition”. These qualities now help me evaluate possible diagnoses and identify the correct diagnosis and management plan. As I grew into adulthood I adopted Gandhi’s idea that with the belief that one can do something, one will acquire the capacity to do it.

Circumstance: Ayden will maintain contact with medical team monthly. Ms. Smalls (MHP) and Mrs. Wigfall (MHS) discuss Ayden’s recent medical appointments and therapy. Action: MHS report Ayden will start physical therapy at an outside clinic. MHP and MHS discuss Ayden receiving all therapy at the same clinic to reduce several therapy appointments during the week. MHP and MHS review reports given since last week.

The preceptor is good at orthopedics and physical therapy. She uses knee and ankle braces to correct patients’ alignment. Some of the patients are elderly and do not want have any surgeries. She also provides physical therapy for a short period of time at the clinic to relieve patients’ pain. The pain can be in the shoulder, neck, hip, back, knee, or ankle.

It ignored a ‘mind-body connection’. Health however, is not simply limited to biology. “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity” as defined by the World Health Organisation. The biopsychosocial model is an absolute necessity for clinical practice - it allows physicians to treat people who have diseases and not just the diseases people have. This will give us the ability to understand people beyond their biological functioning and to view human health in its fullest context.

Personally, I feel as though his mental health was the most impacted by his disease. His physical symptoms were strong but, they did not affect his life as much as his mental symptoms did. His physical symptoms could have been overcome simpler than his mental symptoms did. Ways that his mental health impacted his life was by, him seeing people that were not real; John would also talk to these people, even when others were around.