rlcowboy
04-14-2004, 08:51 PM
Hey Shore, I was just started a new Pain management doctor a few weeks ago. Anyway I just found out they had a web site and it says that the doctor takes a "osteopathic holistic" approach for treatment. Can you please tell me what this means, and if this is good for chronic pain or what. He refilled my methadone and put me on lortab 10 for bt, but wants me to try Physical therapy in a pool. I am going to see my ortho on friday and I'm supposed to talk to him about the PT in the pool but I do not think I could do this right now because of transportation issues right now and because of the amount of pain I'm in. I am hoping that my ortho can give me exercises to do at home. My wife decided she wanted a divorce three weeks ago, so thats why I'm having the transportation problems right now since I'm living alone. I just dont want him to think I'm not doing what I am supposed to. Plus after my next visit with him I am going to go stay with my dad and he lives 4 hours away, so I dont know what to do about Physical therapy and I do not want my new PM doctor to drop me.
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Shoreline
04-17-2004, 10:48 AM
Hey Cowboy, It sounds like martian but osteopaths are basically chiropractors with MD's. They are trained to do the same manipulations as a chiro and Holistic just means to treat the body as a whole rather than simply treating the problem area or masking the symptoms. He's looking at how pain is effecting your entire body, the way it changes the way you walk, which can cause hip or knee problems, Use of opiates causes gastric slowdown and holistic ijust means treating the whole patient. Your problem is more than the sum of your complaints. A wolistic aproach means treating the depression that acompanies chrinic pain, trerating the musclke atrophy from sedentary life style to limit pain. To try to reach maximum health of all body parts and functons rather than simply treating a ruptured disc with a pain med to cover the pain.
It's nothing to be worry about unless he has you out in the deseert looking fopr Payote and wants to bring in an indian charmin to chant over you in a smoke hut. That would be getting extreme, But the way he has treated you so far is a great sign and the idea that You can't simply treat one symptom and not look at what's happening to the person as a whole is a great idea and all docs shopuld consider it. . It actually sounds like you have a pretty good doc that has more to offer than a script pad.
Good luck and if he has you try some weird stuff I'm sure we would all love to hear about it and the outcome. We reach a point where we will try anythng to avoid another surgery or whatever your particular fear is. Dependence on meds, surgery, disability, depression etc.,
Good luck, Dave
It's nothing to be worry about unless he has you out in the deseert looking fopr Payote and wants to bring in an indian charmin to chant over you in a smoke hut. That would be getting extreme, But the way he has treated you so far is a great sign and the idea that You can't simply treat one symptom and not look at what's happening to the person as a whole is a great idea and all docs shopuld consider it. . It actually sounds like you have a pretty good doc that has more to offer than a script pad.
Good luck and if he has you try some weird stuff I'm sure we would all love to hear about it and the outcome. We reach a point where we will try anythng to avoid another surgery or whatever your particular fear is. Dependence on meds, surgery, disability, depression etc.,
Good luck, Dave