Research from DOs You Know: The Epidemiology of Osteopathic Diagnoses and Treatments in United States Emergency Departments From 2018 to 2021

September 4, 2025

Although a large proportion of US emergency physicians are osteopathic physicians, the frequency of osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) use in emergency departments (EDs) is unknown. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of OMM in EDs across the United States and describe the cohort who received OMM.