The Madrid School of Osteopathy Clinical Centre is opening its doors to offer an osteopathic clinical service backed up by the professional work of EOM teachers with extensive clinical and educational experience, accompanied by students in the process of completing their studies in Osteopathy, as well as graduates in Physiotherapy who have extensive care experience. Currently, the clinic has eight complete clinic rooms fully prepared for use by the teachers and practitioners of EOM, with the organizational and services infrastructure needed, including meeting rooms, rooms dedicated to research procedures, and so on.

The goal for this new offer is for students to complete their osteopathic training in the process of finishing their studies with real osteopathic clinic cases supervised by our teaching staff.

 

 GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF THE CLINICAL CENTER

 Each patient will be attended by students finishing osteopathy studies under the supervision and control of an Lecturer at the EOM who will monitor and control the diagnoses made by students, the proposed treatment protocols, and the techniques.

Each patient will be attended by 3 students in each treatment room: diagnosis, clinical examinations of the patient (laboratory tests, Rx, MRI, etc.). Treatment protocols with the techniques used will be discussed in the meeting room between the teacher and students, not in presence of the patient (in the same manner as in a hospital service).

Students will rotate to perform:
• The anamnesis (i.e., the medical history: chief complaint, pain characteristics, search for contraindications to the treatment, previous musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, digestive, or genitourinary problems, with the chronology of any disturbances).
 • Physical examination of the patient:

â—¦ Take blood pressure and pulse; routine auscultation; neurological examination, both peripheral (sensation, reflexes, muscle testing) and central (if necessary); vascular examination; and orthopaedic examination.
◦ General osteopathic examination: muscles, ligaments, capsules …
â—¦ Mobility tests.
â—¦ Patient's posture and postural sensors.
â—¦ Visceral review.
â—¦ Cranial review.
â—¦ Myofascial review.

The teacher monitors and guides:
 • The complete anamnesis and its various parts.
 • The patient's medical examination (neurological, orthopaedic, laboratory, and imaging tests; BP; auscultation; pulse taking; etc.).
 • The osteopathic examination of the patient:

â—¦ Postural analysis and postural captors.
◦ The myofascial balance: tests of extensibility of the muscles, the agonist-antagonist muscle chains, movements in the chains, the search by palpation for myalgic cords (trigger points) with referred pain, muscle hypotonia with muscle testing …
â—¦ Musculoskeletal joint dysfunction: seeking to facilitate spinal cord dysfunction (Korr I. triad: dermalgia, spinal process pain, para-vertebral spasm), tests of mobility and dysfunction analysis, analysis of tissue responsible for the pain and choice of techniques.
â—¦ Cranial, dental, eye analysis, if necessary.
â—¦ Visceral analysis.

 • Patient management:

â—¦ All students participate in the execution of a part of the treatment (one the stretching, another the manipulations, another the head, another the visceral zone). At end of the year, each student alone will perform the complete treatment (he or she shall be in charge of the diagnosis and treatment, while sharing opinions with his or her peers).
â—¦ Techniques will first be practised in the meeting room, and the teacher will correct the techniques before their application to the patient.
â—¦ Before treatment, the clinical case, its diagnosis, biological testing and imaging, and treatment protocol, and the choice of the techniques will be discussed with the teacher and peers.

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