COVID-19 has introduced new risks to the physician-patient encounter, including how we touch our patients changing with skin-to-skin contact becoming less frequent and how we think about and use touch as a therapeutic intervention. New ways of positioning patients for maximal benefit, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, will be reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the types of touch: skin, muscle and visceral.
• Think about positioning for OMM safely and the effect on the patient and disease transmission.
• Consider how PPE affects OMM.
• Evaluate the role of proning in OMM and how to use proning to protect oneself.
• Consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected OMM.

Presenter
Tyler Cymet, DO, FACOFP

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Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 0.5 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Disclaimer
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