sidestepper, your experience is very valuable for me to hear about. I won't be so down on myself, now, figuring that I provoked this reaction.

I looked up this doctor's credentials. He is not a neurosurgeon. He is not an MD. He is an OD (doctor of osteopathy.) I know that some people have put great trust in ODs and have good things to say about them. I tend more toward orthodox mainstream medicine. I'm just not experienced with, or particularly interested in, "alternative" medicine. Maybe this guy wasn't the best representative of his type. I just kept thinking that his manner was so odd. Also, he was all about posture and muscles (which are important) and seemed to think my problem had nothing to do with my cervical spine. He said the bones (vertebrae) will go back to normal when I get PT and strengthen my posture. That is just nuts. The shape of my spine is changed (not hideously, but altered) and it will no sooner go back to how it was 10 years ago than my grey hairs will go back to brown.

When I looked up Principles of Osteopathy, I was kind of amazed at how differently that field looks at things. Like they don't believe that germs are the main cause of infection. They don't believe in vaccination. (I understand that having a poor immune system can be as important as germs in causing someone to come down with infectious disease. And I have always suspected there can be a down side to vaccination.) Still, it sounds to me like Osteopathy is kind of far out there.

I read that the typical DO may have only the equivalent of a BA or MA degree. I thought it was so odd that this guy had trouble pronouncing some of the medical terms I put on my intake sheet. Plus, he didn't know what one of my meds was for. I read that DOs sometimes don't even study pharmacology.

I am interested in anything good anyone can tell me about DOs. I made be over-generalizing based on one encounter.