General Practitioners

• Sinusitis
• Pediatric Care
  Dr. Gass is a graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her internship at Mercy hospital in Portland, Maine. After a year of family practice training at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, she went on to complete a residency in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at North Shore University Plainview Hospital. Her residency training also included working at St Barnabas hospital in the Bronx and teaching at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. During her residency she had the opportunity to treat a wide variety of patients with osteopathic manipulation in both clinical and hospital settings. These patients included pregnant and postpartum woman, newborns, pediatrics, post-surgical, post-trauma, adult and geriatric patients.
• Primary Care
  A study presented in 1975 in a National Institutes of Health publication showed that osteopathic manipulative treatment may increase the lung capacities of patients with chronic obstructive lung disorders. A recent article in Patient Care: The Practical Journal for Primary Care Physicians affirmed that OMT is “appropriate and useful.”
• Ear Infections
  She was first introduced to Osteopathy by an osteopathic physician who used manual medicine to treat children with ear infections who were seen in
• Sleep Disorders
  In my experience, cranial osteopathy is extremely useful for a wide range of problems. Besides ear infections, I’ve seen it benefit asthma, sleep disorders, migraines, Meniere’s disease and TMJ syndrome. It may also be helpful with pediatric conditions such as colic, attention-deficity/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and even learning disabilities. Because of its gentle nature, cranial osteopathy is generally quiet safe.
• Family Practice
• Bronchitis
• Pneumonia

Gynecologists

• Pregnancy

Neurologists

• Neurology
  Most of the country’s D.O.s follow the conventional allopathic approach. Many enter the standard specialties such as pediatrics and neurology. The initials D.O. may follow their names, but they function very much like M.D.s. Others function more as holistic family physicians, however, treating everything from backaches to sore throats and gynecological problems, integrating preventive (emphasizing nutrition and fitness), allopathic (giving prescriptions) and osteopathic (using manipulation) approaches.
• Autism

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Anxiety

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Observing an ostepath and a chiropractor at work may reveal the biggest differences. Whereas manipulative osteopaths use their hands, chiropractors may be more technologically oriented. In addition to spinal manipulations, they may use ultrasound, motorized traction machines and heating pads. Manipulative osteopaths spend at least a half hour to forty minutes with each patient. A chiropractor may see a patient initially for that long, but often subsequent maintenance visits can last but five or ten minutes.
• X-Rays

Surgeons

• Sciatica
  Many patients, when first introduced to osteopathy, wonder which conditions it treats best. Most who go to osteopaths do so at first for relief of back and neck pain, headaches, or other musculoskeletal traumas-like those received from a car accident or sports injury. Others use osteopaths as general practitioners and receive treatment for a wide variety of ailments. With varying degrees of success, osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT), D.O.s say, can treat such diverse problems as asthma, bronchitis, stomach problems, sciatica, ear infections and menstrual problems.

Physical Therapists

• Physical Therapy
• Neck Pain
• Back Pain
• Manual Therapy
  For example, a patient with pneumonia who also has poor respiratory effort has a much slower recovery if only given antibiotics. Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy (OMT) can improve the function of the diaphragm, ribs and lung motion thereby increasing opportunity for oxygenated blood to move through the infection, as well as promoting lymphatic drainage. This will help the body overcome the imbalance of the infection which can cause fatigue, loss of appetite, pain and shortness of breath. So the Osteopath looks not only at the diagnosis of pneumonia as an infection of lung tissue which is debilitating and sometimes life threatening, he/she also evaluates the patient’s capacity to literally fight off the infection by studying their circulatory and respiratory capacity, palpable signs of vitality, appetite, the effect on other organ systems and the effect on the patient’s mind and spirit. All of those issues are addressed in a customized hands-on treatment and reassessed after treatment to evaluate progress. The body can heal itself just as a stream dammed up can eventually clear its water by finding exit paths in crevices between the obstructing rocks.

Allergists

• Allergies