Investigating the safety and feasibility of osteopathic manipulative medicine in hospitalized children and adolescent young adults with cancer.
Jennifer A BelskyAmber M BrownPublished in: Journal of osteopathic medicine (2024)
Hospitalized children and AYAs with cancer received OMT safely with decreased pain in their reported somatic dysfunction(s). These findings support further investigation into the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of implementing OMT in the pediatric oncology inpatient setting and to a broader inpatient pediatric oncology population.