First day in OMM Lab! 2nd day of med school!
I wonder how many days I can keep counting up.. so when I get to the 143rd day of med school you guys can tell me to quit it.
I got like 9 hours of sleep after being sleep deprived yesterday. Luckily, no sleeping in class today. I had biochemistry, OMM (osteopathic manipulative medicine), and OMM Lecture (on the history of medicine). Although I had only 4 classes today, class went from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
Biochemistry was within the norm... went over myoglobin, hemoglobin, and enzymes. OMM lecture was about the history of medicine and osteopathic medicine. For 140 slides, it was rather long, but interesting nonetheless. The OMM lab was pretty freaking awesome. I am really excited that we are going to learn various manipulations. Our professor (a practicing DO) told us that we will be able to do many manipulations by December and that many of us will be doing them on family during our break.
We also got to be a patient from one of the physicians who performed some manipulations on us. I had a kink in my neck from laying on my stomach and having my head tilted to the side for a long time. A few manipulations later... totally resolved. It's kind of weird how it works, but there were quite a few people who had some complaints and had them resolved with the manipulations. My OMM partner, Aaron, actually had some muscle tightness in his lumbar back. It was off to the right side and I asked if he was right handed, he indeed was. I assumed this was additional muscle mass from playing golf (which he states he does a lot of). However, he failed to mention that this particular spot was bothering him as well. Lucky for us as a group, we got to see some manipulations performed on him and we felt this apparent muscle spasm or tension prior to manipulation and after. It was significantly softer after manipulation than prior. My partner said he felt much better afterward, it's kind of weird. I wasn't really a believer of the OMM stuff, but seeing it in action it appears to really work! I look forward to see how he is feeling tomorrow in class, hopefully that stayed loose for him.
That's the run of my second day.. I am tired, studied for a few hours today and now I am ready to hit the sack for day 3 tomorrow.
Mansoor Jatoi, MS I
I got like 9 hours of sleep after being sleep deprived yesterday. Luckily, no sleeping in class today. I had biochemistry, OMM (osteopathic manipulative medicine), and OMM Lecture (on the history of medicine). Although I had only 4 classes today, class went from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
Biochemistry was within the norm... went over myoglobin, hemoglobin, and enzymes. OMM lecture was about the history of medicine and osteopathic medicine. For 140 slides, it was rather long, but interesting nonetheless. The OMM lab was pretty freaking awesome. I am really excited that we are going to learn various manipulations. Our professor (a practicing DO) told us that we will be able to do many manipulations by December and that many of us will be doing them on family during our break.
We also got to be a patient from one of the physicians who performed some manipulations on us. I had a kink in my neck from laying on my stomach and having my head tilted to the side for a long time. A few manipulations later... totally resolved. It's kind of weird how it works, but there were quite a few people who had some complaints and had them resolved with the manipulations. My OMM partner, Aaron, actually had some muscle tightness in his lumbar back. It was off to the right side and I asked if he was right handed, he indeed was. I assumed this was additional muscle mass from playing golf (which he states he does a lot of). However, he failed to mention that this particular spot was bothering him as well. Lucky for us as a group, we got to see some manipulations performed on him and we felt this apparent muscle spasm or tension prior to manipulation and after. It was significantly softer after manipulation than prior. My partner said he felt much better afterward, it's kind of weird. I wasn't really a believer of the OMM stuff, but seeing it in action it appears to really work! I look forward to see how he is feeling tomorrow in class, hopefully that stayed loose for him.
That's the run of my second day.. I am tired, studied for a few hours today and now I am ready to hit the sack for day 3 tomorrow.
Mansoor Jatoi, MS I
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