Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment or OMT is the unique hands-on manual medicine utilized by DOs. There are over thirty different Osteopathic techniques that make up the collected work of DOs. Each DO resonates with several of these techniques and then applies them in an individualized way for each patient. Some of the techniques are very subtle and utilize gentle pressure while other techniques are more physical and engage the tissues in a more assertive way.

Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy, did not separate his technique into different categories. He generically called his hands-on approach “Osteopathy.” His closest students looked carefully at his methods and subsequently named many of his unique clinical procedures. Later generations of DOs expanded upon his ideas and created new techniques that were in agreement with his principles of Osteopathy.
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