Unfortunately this is a loaded question. Osteopathy is not like Tylenol where you say it works or doesn't. It's many treatment modalities. It's like surgery where some surgeries help some conditions and others don't. Many osteopathic treatments are equivalent or downright the same as PT with clear evidence (eg, back pain), while others, like chapman points, that have no scientific merit and the profession should get rid of. Research into osteopathy is very limited because they have placed it under alternative medicine in the NIH, and because that NIH division is being ran by a chiropractor, there is limited funding.
@@scarred10 Looking back to this after two years. I remember some months ago I gave a look to a bunch of papers, and I found that the only evidence that chiropractic actually helps is with back pain and that's it. Placebo also has an important role with all of this.
@@FraserJohnstone1 Again, you're taking a "either OMM works or it doesn't" approach when that is nonsensical. Line i mentioned, OMM is a group of treatments. Some are the same as PT, some have proven benefits, some unknown, and others do not.
Is there science and research behind osteopathy ? Actual evidence that it works?
Unfortunately this is a loaded question. Osteopathy is not like Tylenol where you say it works or doesn't. It's many treatment modalities. It's like surgery where some surgeries help some conditions and others don't. Many osteopathic treatments are equivalent or downright the same as PT with clear evidence (eg, back pain), while others, like chapman points, that have no scientific merit and the profession should get rid of. Research into osteopathy is very limited because they have placed it under alternative medicine in the NIH, and because that NIH division is being ran by a chiropractor, there is limited funding.
Ok, thanks!
There should be no osteopathic medicine,just evidence based Medicine. This guy didn't even answer the question
@@scarred10 Looking back to this after two years. I remember some months ago I gave a look to a bunch of papers, and I found that the only evidence that chiropractic actually helps is with back pain and that's it. Placebo also has an important role with all of this.
@@FraserJohnstone1 Again, you're taking a "either OMM works or it doesn't" approach when that is nonsensical. Line i mentioned, OMM is a group of treatments. Some are the same as PT, some have proven benefits, some unknown, and others do not.
quackery