By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | May 19, 2022 | Teaching, OMM / Osteopathy | Tagged: osteopathic manipulative treatment, osteopathic manipulation, back pain, low back pain, osteopathic, OMT, omm | 0 Comments
Back pain is the 3rd most common cause why people go to see the doctor, and thoracolumbar somatic dysfunctions are a common cause of low and upper bac...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | April 22, 2022 | Conditions | Tagged: gluteal pain, buttock pain, hydrodissection, ultrasound guided, platelet rich plasma, nerve, PRP, neuritis, OMT, piriformis syndrome, sciatica, sciatic nerve | 0 Comments
“Pain in the butt,” a phrase that we typically use to describe someone or something that is very annoying, but it originated from a sensation of p...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | February 22, 2022 | General Sports Medicine, Teaching, OMM / Osteopathy | Tagged: lacrosse ball, theracane, OMT, theragun, omm, knee pain, myofascial pain, trigger point, trigger points, trigger point injection, foam roller | 3 Comments
Toilet knees. Heard of it?! Well, if you are saying no, it is because I am not aware of anyone coining the phrase for this injury yet. Man...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | January 11, 2022 | Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged: osteopathy, DO, doctor, physician, MD, allopathic, social media, internet, trust, osteopathic, dunning kruger | 0 Comments
“Trust me, I’m a doctor.” This used to be a line that was commonly used, as doctors (physicians) were generally trusted by the publi...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | March 15, 2021 | Teaching, OMM / Osteopathy | Tagged: osteopathic, OPP, osteopathic principles, osteopathic medicine, DO, OMT, AOA, AAO, omm, AOASM, osteopathy, doctorsthatDO, osteopathic manipulative medicine, AOAforDOs, osteopathic manipulative treatment, osteopathic manipulation, osteopathic practice | 7 Comments
The osteopathic profession, which represents the medical degree of doctor of osteopathic medicine, DO, was founded in 1892 by Dr. Andrew Taylor (A.T.)...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | January 28, 2021 | General Sports Medicine, Orthobiologics | Tagged: musculoskeletal US, stem cell, musculoskeletal ultrasound regenerative injection therapy, osteopathic, RIT, osteopathic principles, regenerative medicine, stem cell therapy, sports medicine, BMA, non-operative, bone marrow aspirate, non-operative orthopedics, micronized fat, orthopedic, adipose stem cell, orthopedics, orthobiologics, MSK US, osteopath, platelet rich plasma, musculoskeletal, OMT, PRP | 1 Comments
Platelet rich plasma (PRP) has emerged as the latest and greatest treatment for musculoskeletal conditions in the last couple of decades! PRP can be u...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | December 28, 2020 | Teaching | | 0 Comments
I practice, I perform, I teach, I mentor I had many mentors I surrounded myself with as I have progressed in my education. One of my mentors, Jerry Di...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | November 24, 2020 | General Sports Medicine | Tagged: clearance, safe return, return to exercise, exercise, COVID, pandemic, COVID19, COVID-19, coronavirus, corona, return to play, cardiac clearance | 0 Comments
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down, including in our personal lives, work lives, as well as our athletic lives. Some of us have managed to stay...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | August 8, 2020 | General Sports Medicine | Tagged: osteopathic, osteopathic principles, difficult cases, zebras, diagnosis, difficult diagnosis, humility, declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, diagnostic conundrums | 1 Comments
When going through medical school training, we learn about horses and zebras. Horses are the more common things that we tend to see, the common diagno...
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By Daniel Clearfield, DO, MS, FAOASM | June 22, 2020 | Orthobiologics | Tagged: bone marrow aspirate concentrate, BMAC, orthobiologics, regenerative injection therapy, prolotherapy, platelet rich plasma, PRP, stem cell, adipose derived stem cell, ADSC, bone marrow | 0 Comments
If you have a chronic orthopedic issue then often an injection based procedure is part of your treatment plan. There are different types of procedures...
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