• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Just to add - Physical Therapist is what you call someone that deals with the same things, but has y’know a medical license to practice these things.

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      2 days ago

      Kinésithérapeute in french (the good one).

      Ostheopathe in french (the quack one).

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        In English be warned though, osteopaths (at least in America) are real doctors just from a med school that took a different path to get to more or less the same place of evidence based medicine. D.O.s are more or less indistinguishable from M.D.s

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          Osteopathic Medicine in the US is legit though, they go through basically the same training as MDs. There’s some philosophical differences but osteopathic doctors are actually doctors.

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            This is true. For this reason, US doctors of osteopathic medicine generally don’t like to be called “osteopaths”, to avoid being associated with their pseudoscientist counterparts.

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      My PT referred me to a chiropractor colleague of his, back when I didn’t know what a chiropractor was…