In a study of osteopathy patients, 10-20% patients reported an increase in pain or symptoms

But 42% of those went on to make clinically significant improvements compared to base line.    Most muscle soreness, aching and headache post treatment resolved within 24 hours.
Licciardone, J., S. Stoll, et al. [3]

Serious Reactions to Treatment are called Patient Incidents

The best estimate in osteopathy is 1 in 36,079 osteopathic treatments These are not all associated with spinal manipulation.  
Vogel S, Mars T, et al. [4]

Amongst all therapies 40-50% patients have a mild adverse event.

eg Muscle soreness, achiness, or headache, resolving within 24hrs.

The survey was done by Chiropractors, Medics and Physiotherapists.
Dawn Carnes, Thomas S. Mars et al. [1]

Adverse events are significantly less likely with manual therapy than medicines.

Serious events over 1 year for NSAIDs:   1:4000            Course of manipulation treatment:     1:400,000.

A serious adverse event includes nerve damage, stroke, bladder weakness or death.
Dawn Carnes, Thomas S. Mars et al. [2]

As an Osteopath I Am Constantly Working to Make Your treatment as Safe as Possible

Of course, having 30 years of family medicine and hospital work goes a long way – in particular I know how to interpret your history, previous medical problems, drugs, and physical findings.

Important also is my very high skill level with physically treating you. Soft tissue work (stretching and pulling) informs my hands about your tolerance to the treatment as it is actually being given.

My manipulations (thrust techniques) are modified to use the bare minimal necessary energy or force. The ‘wind up’ of the spine by other therapists can be very crude. I have been trained by Professor Laurie Hartman to use careful positioning of joints in six rather than three planes. This means that focus is achieved for the ‘release’ (or ‘click’) using least effort. The immediate benefit for you is enhanced safety, and minimal discomfort.

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Robert H. Schuller

THE PATIENT
DECIDES WHEN IT'S BEST TO GO.

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AND PATIENT TO PERFORM.

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Citations/References

[1], [2] Dawn Carnes a,*, Thomas S. Mars b , Brenda Mullinger b , Robert Froud a , Martin Underwood c, Manual Therapy 15 (2010) 355–363

[3]  Licciardone, J., S. Stoll, et al. (2003). “Osteopathic manipulative treatment for chronic low back pain: A randomized controlled trial.” Spine 28(13): 1355-62.

[4]  Vogel S, Mars T, Keeping S, Barton T, Marlin N, Froud R, Eldridge S, Underwood M, Pincus T. Clinical Risk Osteopathy and Management Scientific Report: The CROaM Study. 2013.  Available at http://www.osteopathy.org.uk/uploads/croam_full_report_0313.pdf

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