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Pain of the coccyx, coccydynia, is a common condition with a substantial impact on the quality of life. Although most cases resolve with conservative care, 10 % become chronic and are more debilitating. Treatment for chronic coccydynia is limited; surgery is not definitive. Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is the application of manually guided forces to areas … Read More
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are economic, social, and political conditions that affect a person’s overall health or the health of a group of people. Researchers have investigated the effects of SDOH on various diseases, such as asthma, obesity, and chronic stress, but few publications have been made regarding its effects on arthritis.
Osteopathic medical schools have traditionally placed a heavy emphasis on the field of primary care. While graduating osteopathic students continue to pursue family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics at higher rates than their allopathic counterparts, it is unknown whether students feel that surgical rotations are held to similar standards.
Upon requests from osteopathic medical schools, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Charting Outcomes were redesigned to include osteopathic medical school seniors beginning in 2018 and one joint graduate medical education (GME) accreditation system, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), formed in 2020.
Chest pain is one of the most common emergency medicine complaints in the United States, yet no reliable physical examination finding exists to help differentiate cardiac chest pain (CCP) from noncardiac chest pain (non-CCP).
In the February issue of Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (JOM), you’ll find a lineup of articles across various subspecialty areas and topics, including an analysis of osteopathic medical students applying to surgical residencies after the transition to a single accreditation system, an evaluation of attitudes on opioid use disorder following an interprofessional education event, a … Read More
A 30-year-old woman presented to the allergy and immunology clinic in December 2022, having noted recurrent episodes of pallor in her fingers for the past 5 years. This blanching occurred somewhat symmetrically and circumferentially, and it always began at the tip of the digits. Each of these episodes lasted approximately 10 min and mainly followed exposure … Read More
The United States is currently facing a physician shortage crisis including a lack of specialist providers. Due to this shortage of specialists, some primary care providers offer colorectal cancer screenings in communities with few gastroenterologists, especially in under-resourced areas such as rural regions of the United States.
With the growing number of robotic knee arthroplasties being performed, new outcomes must be analyzed to provide a database for comparing robotic and nonrobotic surgeries. These results can be utilized in the future to properly assess the significance of utilizing robotic technology in the operating room regarding patient outcomes and cost.