Mask wearing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and other viral infections may raise concerns on the effects of face masks on breathing and cardiopulmonary health. Non–evidence-based apprehensions may limit the use of masks in public.
Environmental exposures are associated with approximately 19% of disease globally, and exposure to neurotoxic chemicals is estimated to cost the United States $50 billion per year. Despite calls from the Institute of Medicine to increase training for clinicians regarding environmental health since the 1990s, there is still little instruction in environmental health for clinicians. This … Read More
The mechanisms by which osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine (OCMM) promotes health and healing have yet to be fully elucidated. One commonly utilized OCMM technique, compression of the fourth ventricle (CV4), has been theorized to balance autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. There is growing evidence that the ANS also plays a significant mechanistic role in acupuncture. … Read More
There is a common symptom pattern with most chronic low back pain (CLBP), suggesting that there is a common underlying etiology, belying the term “nonspecific.” Many studies of CLBP and its treatment have been conducted with the assumption of nonspecificity, and as a result, treatment has not been focused, thus there has not been a … Read More
One of the two major pathways to become a physician in the United States is the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree. A major distinctive feature is often perceived as the addition of manual training in osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in the DO education. However, the profession also has a distinct philosophy imbedded in the … Read More
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) negatively impact health outcomes later in life, in a dose–dependent relationship; however, little is known about the impact of the individual ACE categories and subjective cognitive decline (SCD) later in life.
In the March issue of Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (JOM), you’ll find a lineup of articles across various subspecialty areas and topics, including papers on chronic low back pain, the effects of face masks on oxygen saturation at graded exercise intensities, the impact of individual adverse childhood experiences and subjective cognitive decline later in life, … Read More
A 5-year-old male presented to our global health outreach clinic in Uganda in May 2018 for discoloration affecting the entire left side of his body since infancy. Cutaneous examination revealed unilateral distributed linear bands of skin-colored to dark-brown verrucous papules coalescing into plaques following Blaschko lines on the face, trunk, and extremities (Figures 1 and 2). Further examination … Read More
A 72-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension and colon cancer (in remission) presented to the emergency department in January 2022 because his wife noticed that his right ear was diffusely swollen and red for several hours. The patient recalled that he had a subjective fever 3 days prior that resolved without intervention and that he … Read More