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Osteopathic Treatment for Cancer-Related Pain

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Pain in the cancer patient is often multifactorial related to disease burden, chemotherapy, radiation, and other treatments. Osteopathic manipulation therapy (OMT) may be used to provide effective and conservative therapy for complications or dysfunction due to medical and surgical treatment of the cancer patient. Examples of diagnoses to utilize OMT include scar tissue, radiation-induced fibrosis, trismus, axial spine pain, and many others.

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  1. Valley Medical Group, Waldwick, NJ, USA

    Ryan K. Murphy

  2. Department of Rehabilitative Medicine, Weill College of Medicine Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

    Jonas M. Sokolof

  3. Department of Neurology – Rehabilitation Services, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jonas M. Sokolof

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Amitabh Gulati

  2. Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Vinay Puttanniah

  3. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Brian M. Bruel

  4. Midwest Neuroscience Institute, Center for the Relief of Pain, Kansas City, MO, USA

    William S. Rosenberg

  5. Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Joseph C. Hung

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Murphy, R.K., Sokolof, J.M. (2019). Osteopathic Treatment for Cancer-Related Pain. In: Gulati, A., Puttanniah, V., Bruel, B., Rosenberg, W., Hung, J. (eds) Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99684-4_47

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