{"id":4689,"date":"2016-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/2016\/07\/20\/how-do-you-spell-relief-omt\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:58:50","slug":"how-do-you-spell-relief-omt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/how-do-you-spell-relief-omt\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you spell relief? OMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The image is iconic. A pregnant woman, in profile, places her hands on her own lower back and rubs it gently. She\u2019s in pain.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s help, according to Dr. Melissa A. Voutsalath, D.O., a primary care outpatient physician with UCHealth who practices at UCHealth Primary Care in Monument.<br \/>\nOsteopathic physicians are trained in osteopathic manipulation to help ease back pain for pregnant women<br \/>\nProviding pain relief for pregnant women is, in part, what she does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll osteopathic physicians are trained in osteopathic manipulation, but not all osteopathic physicians decide to incorporate those skills into their practice,\u201d she explained. She does, however.<\/p>\n<p>And pregnant woman, with their rapidly changing bodies, are prime candidates for such healing techniques.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPregnant women undergo significant physiologic and structural changes during pregnancy,\u201d Voutsalath said. \u201cCommonly, women have low back and pelvic pain that occurs with structural changes as they progress through pregnancy. Other problems include but are not limited to sciatica, headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome. Osteopathic manipulation can be a great adjuvant therapy to help relieve these symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OMT (osteopathic manipulation therapy) can be used throughout all trimesters of pregnancy, even during labor and post-partum, Voutsalath said. \u201cI follow a set technique protocol that has been studied through the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Studies have shown pain relief as well as possible decrease in duration of labor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/jaoa.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2094539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abstract<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaoa.org\/\">Journal of the American Osteopathic Association<\/a> says that\u00a0OMT provides multiple benefits, including\u00a0reduced pain,\u00a0less time in\u00a0labor and fewer complications of labor.\u00a0Dr. Voutsalath, who is part of Colorado Health Medical Group, UCHealth&#8217;s physician practice,\u00a0said it is not necessarily more difficult to work on a pregnant woman than one who is not pregnant.<br \/>\nDr. Melissa Voutsalath, DO, practices at UCHealth Primary Care in Monument.<br \/>\n\u201cBut you do need to modify certain techniques and for the most part we do not perform high velocity, low amplitude thrusts on pregnant women. Instead, soft tissue, muscle energy and myofascial techniques are utilized,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Though she is fairly new to the Monument clinic, she is hoping to get the word out to local doctors of obstetrics and gynecology that she can perform this therapy.<\/p>\n<p>After all, what pregnant woman would turn down that kind of relief?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image is iconic. A pregnant woman, in profile, places her hands on her own lower back and rubs it gently. She\u2019s in pain. But there\u2019s help, according to Dr. Melissa A. Voutsalath, D.O., a primary care outpatient physician with UCHealth who practices at UCHealth Primary Care in Monument. 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