Why is osteopathic manual treatment more expensive than chiropractic care, physical therapy, or cranio-sacral therapy?
Several reasons: Osteopathic physicians are fully licensed physicians. A first time appointment, including a full medical history, structural evaluation and treatment requires one hour, subsequent appointments are one half hour. So much is accomplished in an individual treatment that treatment almost never happens more than weekly (and often less frequently). So although the costs of an individual treatment are higher, many fewer appointments are generally needed to address the medical problem.
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