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        A Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) has a complete medical license enabling him/her to practice medicine, surgery, deliver babies and prescribe medicines. D.O.s can specialize in Neuromusculoskeletal (Manual) Medicine receiving extra training in the art of science of human mechanics.

An Osteopathich physician's evaluation and treatment is based on viewing the body as a whole. He/she looks at howthe intergration of the body's structure (bones, joints, discs, muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves) functionwith each other within the body's system. A breakdown of the normal working patterns of trhe body (inique to each person) cause these structures to dysfunction and become painful.

An Osteopath assesses each patient's individual normal mechanical working pattern. By gentle manipulation of the bones and soft tissue structures, he/she wprls tp re,pve restrictions which may be impending joint mobility, blood flow, nerve function or muscular activity. Through these manipulations dysfunction is reversed and pain is alleviated.