 |  | As of August 1983, Young People's Clinic has been providing good old-fashioned, hands-on, "intensive" primary care pediatrics, and now osteopathic manipulative services, for 20 years. In that time, Miriam Mills has added other pediatric providers, namely Stacey Ludlow, MD, and Becky Berman, PNP, as well as another resource for osteopathic manipulation, Chris Blevins, DO. | | In 1987, Dr. Mills was injured in a car accident, and sought medical treatment in the form of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT). She was so impressed with its benefits that she decided to learn how to apply these principles to her own patient care.
After 10 more years ot training, teaching, research, and practice, she finds that manual medicine has been a rich addition to her pediatric skills. It is based on the observation that the body has a remarkable capacity to self-correct, after removing impediments that inhibit flexibility, circulation, nerve conduction, and respiration.
Dr. Mills combines the more common techniques of stretching, positioning, and unwinding used by many Doctors of Osteoapthy (DO's), with the more specialized skills of gentle manipulation of the head and sacrum.
In addition to helping specific strain of the body, OMT is also potentially useful and adjuvant treatment for some children with colic, recurrent ear infections, chronic headaches or agdominal pain, sinus infections, and lower respiratory problems such as asthma. This is not to say that OMT is the only treatment necessary for these conditions, or that it will work in all of them. It has, however, provided a useful addition to the pediatric care at Young People's Clinic. |
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