What does it mean to be holistic? What does it meant to treat the whole patient? How do Osteopathic doctors think about health and the body?
Each model represents a different aspect of anatomy and physiology, structure and function. These different models also affect each other and rely on each other. Everything is connected and all parts of us contribute to health and wellbeing.
BIOMECHANICAL
Respiratory-Circulatory
Metabolic-Endocrine
NEUROLOGICAL
Behavioral
And when you put them all together... You have a system that works as a unit to compensate and maintain health
If health is compromised, an Osteopathic doctor will take all of these different models into account so that we can help the system work as well as possible.
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) treats holistically.
YOU as a WHOLE.
Very insightful.