Vol. 15 No. 1 (2023): Winter 2023

To better serve you, Osteopathic Family Physician has moved to a quarterly publishing schedule beginning with the Winter 2023 issue. We've retooled to give you more high-quality, focused osteopathic content. Although we all have incredibly busy lives, marking time through the movement of the se...

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To the editor: The journey to receiving a medical degree is marked by moments of incredible stress, with few more demanding than the MCAT and USMLE exams. Students spend many caffeine-fueled months preparing for an ominous day of reckoning, whose fateful moments of testing seemingly dictate their...

What’s the difference between a DO and an MD? Have you ever been asked this question? How did you reply? If you’re like me, it was answered neither in a simple phrase nor one sentence. It became a discussion—and perhaps a complicated discussion, at that. What if the same question were asked of your...

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has given rise to a global pandemic, as well as a multitude of long-term sequelae that continue to perplex physicians around the world, including in the United States. Among the most common and impactful long-haul symptoms experienced by surv...

As America continues to face the opioid epidemic, numerous people have made great strides in receiving formal treatment for their opioid use disorder (OUD). This research seeks to examine the effects of providing osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) along with traditional OUD pharmac...

Back pain is a common complaint addressed by family physicians. This is an uncommon case of a patient presenting with back pain and subsequent workup revealing a new diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer with bone metastasis. This case can be used to highlight an unusual presentation a...

Chronic pain is defined as pain that has persisted for greater than 6 months. This type of pain may last longer than 6 months and can continue even after the injury or illness that has caused it has healed or resolved. Pain signals can remain active in the nervous system for weeks to mon...

There is historical and modern evidence for the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) to treat patients with mental health disorders. The first section of this article examines the historical perspective, focusing intently on the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium. This hospital special...

This article was designed to be viewed and distributed as a PDF. Please download the PDF for easiest reading.            A 16-year-old male presented to the emergency department for a chief complaint of right shoulder pain. He was riding a dirt bike prior to his arri...