What is the difference between the manual therapy of PTs and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment?
Many PT schools have traditionally offered training in massage and soft-tissue techniques. In the early 1980s, several American DOs began offering courses to PTs in OMT. A few Osteopathic medical schools also began to offer post-graduate Osteopathic manual therapy courses to PTs. The most common types of manual therapy techniques utilized by PTs are based on an Osteopathic model; however they do not practice Osteopathy. PTs do not incorporate Osteopathic philosophy into their work and frequently use OMT as a technique-driven modality rather than an integrated holistic approach.
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