Mexico Medical Student |

In a post this week on Medscape’s “official” med student blog, Pin-Chieh Chiang, a 2nd year osteopathic student, asked the question if med students use drugs to boost their performance. After a lot of yatta yatta about student behaviors and who does or doesn’t show signs of “use,” she then says the following:

At my school, the emphasis on osteopathic philosophies shines a different light on this issue. If my head is feeling clouded, I can easily ask any classmate to perform a suboccipital release on me (one of my favorite treatments).

Well, I can’t speak for the osteopathic options, but at allopathic schools, we prefer a pudendal nerve release. There are many tried and true manipulations regarding structures innervated by this nerve that you will not find in Barbara Bates’ book but have great therapeutic value, nonetheless. Consider it our “folk medicine” for those “cloudy head” days. Getting a willing classmate…ah, now there’s the rub.