From The Director: Update on Our COVID-19 Response

Director Update Brian Degenhardt 2020-05-04 1 Comment

The Director of the Practice-Based Research Network DO-Touch.NET, Brian Degenhardt, DO, C-NMM/OMM, gives an update on our COVID-19 response.

Four simple activities to help fight infections

News Brian Degenhardt 2020-04-10 11 Comments

DO-Touch.NET has been contributing resources to help clinicians and their patients manage their lives during this challenging COVID-19 pandemic. After sharing one of our earlier posts, a viewer asked about…

Supportive OMT Therapies for COVID-19 Resistance

OMT Effectiveness/Efficacy Brian Degenhardt 2020-03-26 11 Comments

While scientists work to find specific cures for Covid-19, the medical profession attempts to offer ways to support the body while it fights the disease. Many clinical…

Multicenter Osteopathic Pneumonia Study of the Elderly (MOPSE) – OMT Techniques

OMT Effectiveness/Efficacy Brian Degenhardt 2020-03-24 4 Comments

In this era of Covid-19, the world struggles to find ways to minimize the viruses’ morbidity and mortality. This instructional video provides a rationale for and demonstrations…

FROM THE DIRECTOR: 2020 Vision

Director Update Brian Degenhardt 2020-01-08 0 Comment

The power of osteopathy has always been best illustrated by the success individual patients report from receiving manipulative care. The ability to touch, identify real problems that…

From the Director: Rationale for the Technique of the Month

Director Update Brian Degenhardt 2019-02-14 0 Comment

The mission of DO-Touch.NET is to advance the science of osteopathy. There are great opportunities and challenges achieving this mission. One challenge is to assure that what…

From the Director: Continuous quality improvement

Director Update Brian Degenhardt 2018-09-01 0 Comment

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a process to assess what we are doing and how we can do it better. But how is CQI done for osteopathic…

From the Director: Breaking news from 2018 Annual Meeting

Director Update Brian Degenhardt 2018-06-01 0 Comment

For three years, we have been given the opportunity to hold the DO-Touch.NET annual meeting just before the AAO Convocation. As with each year, this year we…

From the Director: Reflections on 2016

Director Update Brian Degenhardt 2016-12-01 0 Comment

Greetings and happy holidays! Throughout many parts of the world, the end of the year is a time for thanksgiving, celebration, reflection, assessment, planning, and hope. Here…