Virginia Research Day 2022

Medical Student Research Cl inical

02 A New Comprehensive Liberty Ostepopathic Manipulative Medicine Treatment Tool

Kristen L. Adams, MS; Patrick Fugler, PharmD; Charles Joseph, MD Corresponding author: Kadams109@liberty.edu

Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Importance: There is a growing demand for the use of US Osteopathic physicians to treat chronic pain. Concurrently there is also a need for standardized, peer-reviewed protocols to treat patients with somatic dysfunctions using Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM). To produce high quality, reproducible OMM research, a new tool is needed to collect in depth patient information concerning their pain, history, and somatic dysfunction. Objective: To develop a new Osteopathic Manipulation Treatment (OMT) health history form for use in local OMM clinics. The new form will include more specific outcome measures clearly tied to the somatic diagnosis, the specific interventions and the patient’s quality of life. In the future, use of the LU OMT tool will create a usable and mineable database that will be available on an ongoing basis for resident and student research.

Design: The LU OMT tool was created as a patient intake survey in conjunction with a follow-up survey that provides specific outcome measures regarding a patient’s history and treatment, is compatible with the electronic medical record, and can be used as a tool to collect patient information for future OMM research. The LU OMT tool measures quality of life as a function of pain level, delineates past treatments (both medicine and OMT) from current treatments, and categorizes patients based on their somatic dysfunction(s), prescribed treatment, and effectiveness of treatment. Setting and Participants: Data will be collected from patients at the Free Clinic of Central Virginia as part of their intake paperwork. The Free Clinic of Central Virginia is a multispecialty medical practice that provides holistic, patient-centered health

care in Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Manipulative Medicine (ONMM), Neurology, Family Medicine, Dentistry and Behavioral Health. The development of the LU OMT tool will create a usable and data mineable instrument, that will be available on an ongoing basis for resident and student research. In the future, we hope this form will allow US Osteopathic physicians and students to conduct valid, reliable retrospective case studies on the effectiveness of OMM treatment for various somatic dysfunctions.

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