Teaching and use of cervical high-velocity, low-amplitude manipulation at colleges of osteopathic medicine

CONCLUSIONS: A majority of COMs provide education in their curricula related to cervical HVLA primarily in the first 2 years of medical education. However, instruction often excludes cervical HVLA to the upper regions of the cervical spine. At COMs where HVLA to the cervical spine is not taught, that decision is because the techniques are thought to be too difficult and the attendant medicolegal risk perceived to be too high. OMM/OPP department chairs expressed confidence in only a small proportion of their graduates having the ability to competently apply HVLA to the cervical spine immediately after completing their predoctoral medical training.PMID:33635957 | DOI:10.1515/jom-2020-0120
Source: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Source Type: research