On December 18, 2020, 10:00-11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada), we’ll be discussing “Short-term effect of osteopathic manual techniques (OMT) on respiratory function in healthy individuals” by Jakub Stępnik, Agnieszka Kędra, and Dariusz Czaprowski.
DO‑Touch.NET members are encouraged to read the article and come prepared to discuss how the results reported by the authors can be applied in your clinical practice of OMT.
This session of the Let’s Talk About OMM Research! series is approved for 1 AOA Category 1-A CME credit for DO-Touch.NET members who attend the virtual session live. Information about CME credit is available here.
DO-Touch.NET members – Check your email for information about how to register for the webinar and for CME credit!
Join us for our inaugural episode of DO-Touch.NET’s new monthly webinar series, Let’s Talk About OMM Research!, on October 16, 2020, at 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)!
Episode 1 of Let’s Talk About OMM Research! includes updates on DO-Touch.NET’s activities and plans for the future from the Director, Brian Degenhardt, and Associate Director, Jane Johnson, and from the Regional Directors for Germany, Marina Fuhrmann, and Brazil, André Chediek. Also, we’d like to hear ideas from our members for DO-Touch.NET. What should we be doing together as a network of clinicians engaged in the assessment of the clinical usefulness of osteopathic manipulative medicine? What are your ideas on ways to fulfill our mission to evaluate and advance the practice of osteopathic manipulative medicine?
For those who can’t catch the live stream, the discussions will be recorded and posted in the DO‑Touch.NET website Members Area. Additionally, we are implementing discussion forums so all of our DO‑Touch.NET members can participate in the discussions even if they’re not available during the live stream.
DO‑Touch.NET announces our “Let’s Talk About OMM Research!” series, monthly live streamed discussions about topics relevant to osteopathic manipulative medicine research!
For those who can’t catch the live stream, the discussions will be recorded and posted in the DO‑Touch.NET website Members Area. Additionally, we are implementing discussion forums so all of our DO‑Touch.NET members can participate in the discussions even if they’re not available during the live stream.
Watch the DO‑Touch.NET website, Twitter, and Facebook for more information about our first “Let’s Talk About OMM Research!” discussion, coming on October 16.
The Director of the Practice-Based Research Network DO-Touch.NET, Brian Degenhardt, DO, C-NMM/OMM, gives an update on our COVID-19 response.
Continue reading From The Director: Update on Our COVID-19 ResponseThe power of osteopathy has always been best illustrated by the success individual patients report from receiving manipulative care. The ability to touch, identify real problems that may or may not be perceived by the patient, and to provide relief from or cure of those problems has allowed osteopathy to flourish throughout the 20th century into a global healthcare approach. Science, a process of observation to increase understanding, has developed technologies that significantly improve humans’ ability to make observations. Humanity now has the capacity and opportunity of not only seeing the individual patient at specific moments and extrapolating the effect of care over time, but to observe large numbers of people over extended periods of time to increase understanding of dysfunctions/pathologies and treatment outcomes. In the past decade, DO-Touch.NET has grown from a vision of promoting OMM research to a global practice-based research network, finding ways to help patients and clinicians better understand the impact of osteopathy. As DO-Touch.NET begins its second decade, it has a new 2020 vision to help the osteopathic manipulative medicine community incorporate and sustain technologies in their offices to improve their ability to observe conditions over time,
empower patients to actively contribute to a deeper understanding of their condition and how interventions promote their progression to health. Based on this process, evidence and not just anecdote will demonstrate the true power of osteopathy. This is our 2020 vision, purpose, and passion.
The mission of DO-Touch.NET is to advance the science of osteopathy. There are great opportunities and challenges achieving this mission. One challenge is to assure that what we do, what we say we do, and why we do these approaches are comparable.
Continue reading From the Director: Rationale for the Technique of the MonthContinuous quality improvement (CQI) is a process to assess what we are doing and how we can do it better. But how is CQI done for osteopathic manipulative care?
Continue reading From the Director: Continuous quality improvement
