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What Else Cesar Millan Taught Me About Medicine

What Else Cesar Millan Taught Me About Medicine

It would always catch my attention when I would watch The Dog Whisperer television show and Cesar Millan would help dogs with self esteem problems by having the dog owners walk their dogs like if they were in a dog

Daniel Lopez, D.O. March 13, 2014July 18, 2017 Health, Medicine, Osteopathy No Comments Read more

3 Assumptions Doctors Make About Health

3 Assumptions Doctors Make About Health

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word health is defined as, “the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially :  freedom from physical disease or pain.” In short, this is saying that health is simply the “absence of disease or

Daniel Lopez, D.O. February 11, 2014July 18, 2017 Health, Osteopathy No Comments Read more

What Doctors Can Learn From Cesar Millan

What Doctors Can Learn From Cesar Millan

  Cesar Millan (a.k.a. The Dog Whisperer) is a person that I greatly admire and utterly respect for what he has accomplished and the value he has added not just to my life, but the life of many. The principles

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 15, 2013July 20, 2017 Medicine, Osteopathy No Comments Read more

Are You Considering The Iliacus In Low Back Pain?

Are You Considering The Iliacus In Low Back Pain?

Most manual practitioners view the iliacus muscle and the psoas major muscle as one muscle. These two muscles do share something in common and that is they both insert into the same tendon. In many books you’ll see them referred to

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 15, 2013July 20, 2017 Osteopathic Techniques, Osteopathy 4 Comments Read more

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Vs Prescription Medications: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Vs Prescription Medications: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You

I recently requested to volunteer as a physician at a race. I was told that I could volunteer as a physician but that I could not provide osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) because the tents were not equipped for ‘major manipulations’

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 14, 2013July 20, 2017 Health, Medicine, Osteopathy 1 Comment Read more

The Five Components of the Primary Respiratory Mechanism (Cranial Concept)

The Five Components of the Primary Respiratory Mechanism (Cranial Concept)

In 1929, William Garner Sutherland, D.O. presented the idea of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field (OCF) also referred to as cranial osteopathy. ‘Craniosacral therapy’ is not the same as OCF and that will be discussed in other articles. OCF has

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 14, 2013December 29, 2013 Osteopathic Techniques, Osteopathy No Comments Read more

Why You Should Be Treating The Mandible During Your Cranial Treatments

Why You Should Be Treating The Mandible During Your Cranial Treatments

Chances are that if you do cranial osteopathic treatment, you probably do not pay much attention to the mandible. Most of the treatments for the mandible have simply focused on treating the temporomandibular joints (TMJ). In this blog, I want

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 14, 2013February 6, 2014 Osteopathy 4 Comments Read more

Why Popping Necks, Backs And Joints Is Not Effective In Permanently Resolving Pain Or Stiffness

Why Popping Necks, Backs And Joints Is Not Effective In Permanently Resolving Pain Or Stiffness

Do you ever “pop” or “crack” your back by twisting? Does this ever truly resolve or keep you from needing to do this again? If the answer is “no,” then why would it be any different to have someone else

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 14, 2013December 29, 2013 Osteopathy No Comments Read more

What My Mentor Taught Me About Osteopathy

What My Mentor Taught Me About Osteopathy

Always question, always challenge “Do you see how this patient’s tibias are bowed out?” asked the doctor.“Yes,” I replied as I ran my fingers along the patient’s shin bones. I was not really sure of what it was I should

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 14, 2013December 27, 2013 Osteopathy 2 Comments Read more

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine And Women’s Health

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine And Women’s Health

One of my favorite stories about what Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) can do is the story of a mother of three who had been dealing with urinary frequency problems. This had been an issue for about 10 years and her

Daniel Lopez, D.O. December 13, 2013December 27, 2013 Medicine, Osteopathy 2 Comments Read more

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