Mitchell Cohn | SpeakerHub

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Current position (3)

America's Pain Detective

Physician, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Consultant

Provider/Influencer

Healthtap

Speaker & Consultant

AmericasPainDetective.com

Degrees (1)

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)

University of Osteopathic Medicine & Health Science

1982 to 1986

Bio

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Osteopathic Doctor & Trainer

Author, Speaker, and Advocate for Osteopathic Medicine and REAL Osteopathic education. Dr. Cohn's goals are to increase awareness of and demand for true osteopathic healthcare and to foster a renaissance in osteopathic educatoin. His book, Osteopathy and the Zombie Apocalypse has been highly successful since 2012 at persuading young would-be MDs to not only join the ranks of osteopathic physicians, but to become providers of traditional osteopathic manual medicine. His work educating the public about osteopathy and pain treatment has helped more than 1.2 million people via HealthTap.com.

Through entertaining writing and speaking Dr. Cohn brings pressure to bear upon the osteopathic community, especially educational institutions, to return American Osteopathic Medicine to its most vital basics which have become lost over the last 40 years or more. He also makes more patients and premedical students aware of osteopathy, its principles and practices as they were envisioned by our predecessors: a melding of the best practices of all medicine with humanity, and the art and power of healing touch.

In 2020, post-graduate education of both MDs and DOs (Doctors of Osteopathy) will be fully merged. Dr. Cohn is taking this opportunity to finally bring enlightenment and understanding to the MD world with expectation that truly understanding the basics of Osteopathic Manipulation and Osteopathic Principles and Practice will help them become more sensitive to the needs of their patients, better listening, more patient-centered, and more open-minded healthcare providers.

Chronic Pain Contrarian

The best way to stop an Opioid Crisis: avoid the need for pain medications!

Recognized several times as a national authority in the field pain medicine, Dr. Cohn is an Author, Speaker, Advocate for Osteopathic Medicine, and a Practicing Clinician with answers to several of the most difficult questions in the field of Chronic Pain Medicine. As a practitioner of hands-on medicine, including osteopathic manipulation, prolotherapy/PRP and L-PIT, Dr. Cohn has helped many patients COMPLETELY HEAL FROM CHRONIC PAIN - including himself.

Certain to surprise many with his stories of chronic pain eradication in patients previously failed by mighty national institutions, his wit and obvious expertise will entertain and enlighten, enrage and cajole, while challenging the very bases of modern pain practice. He has a nasty habit of taking 'common wisdom' in Pain Medicine and making it recognizable for what it is ... fantasy misdirecting attention from the simple basic truth - or outlandish claim - underlying the entire field: 65-80% of chronic pain is curable.

Although diagnosis is the very foundation of being able to accurately apply treatment to resolve a health problem, doctors have become reliant upon technologies which are less capable of diagnosis than the human hand and mind. Pain Physicians, today, are less capable of the basics of diagnosis - taking medical histories and performing physical examinations - than in any generations past

Certain to engender disbelief, even ridicule, from many corners, Dr. Cohn is, never-the-less, an accomplished physician with a long track record of helping his patients heal from chronic pain, recognizing the shortcomings of the medical profession, and providing wisdom, education, and training which have the capacity to change the world of pain care.

Dr. Cohn's speechcraft, humor, and sincerity have a way of wedging open even the smallest crack of uncertainty regarding today's accepted methods of pain treatment. All it takes is an open mind willing to learn.

Presentations

Presentations (12)

Take the Band-Aid Approach or Fix Your Pain?

Introduction to Osteopathic Medicine
Preventing Injury from becoming Chronic Pain
Pain Treatment vs Pain Management
3 Alternatives for Treating Chronic Pain Which Most Drs. Don't Know
The Problems with Steroids and Pain Killers

Weekend Warriors Injury Workshop

Introduction to Osteopathic Medicine
R.I.C.E. vs M.E.A.T.
How does an injury become chronic?
How do you get back in the game?
Standard vs More Effective methods of Avoiding Injury
Osteopathy or Chiropractic?
Highly Effective Joint, Ligament, Tendon, and Nerve Repair Therapies (Not known or practiced by most physicians)
Standard Treatments Which Prolong Injury and Interfere with Healing
The Unintended Consequences of Surgery and Why & How to Avoid them

Respiratory Disease and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM)

Originally present to the Michigan State Respiratory Society, this presentation is actually suitable for patients with respiratory disorders and for all Healthcare providers who diagnose and/or treat respiratory illness.

Debunking the debunkers - challenging critics of osteopathic manipulation
Osteopathic Principles
Patients' experience with OMM
OMM & Respiratory Illness - 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Critical Differences: Osteopathic Physical Diagnosis in Respiratory Disorders
Physiological Bases of OMM treatment in Respiratory Illness - Why it works
Demonstration (Hands-on, if time and space allow) of simple techniques Non-DOs can use, immediately

Keeping Workers Working - How to Avoid Expensive Downtime After Injury

Chronic Pain

Suitable for general audiences, pain patients, business executives, insurance and healthcare executives, pre-medical students, 1st and 2nd year medical and osteopathic medical students, mid-level providers, DCs and DOs. MDs may find the material too critical of standard medical practice. Open-minded MDs will learn a lot!

3 main learning goals:
1. Understand Osteopathic Medicine, principles and practice
2. Chronic Pain - What it is, how it develops, and why proper diagnosis is VITAL to resolving it
3. 3 Alternative approaches to the treatment of chronic pain to resolve: Mechanical dysfunction; tendon, ligament, and joint injury; nerve injury and neuropathy

Perspective: Tech-Dependence, Lost Diagnostic Skills, & Bringing Humanity Back to Medicine

Suitable for premed and 1st and 2nd year medical and osteopathic medical students.

Part 1:
-Deeper look at osteopathy
-Osteopathy is INCLUSIVE
-It's All Connected
-The importance of Flow
-The Pebble-in-the-shoe
-Everyone should walk away from this seminar
o KNOWING more about how to be a better doctor
o DO at least one thing you might not have been able to do, before:
-The problems of technology dependence
-Osteopathic Medicine should be accessible & practical
-Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM/OMT) - what it is & examples of practical applications
-You don't need to be an osteopathic physician to have an osteopathic perspective

Part 2
Hands-on workshop where students 'get a feel' for hands-on work
A. Simple Techniques
o Palpation Skill level required: Low and Medium
o Technical difficulty: Low
B. Advanced OMM Techniques

OFA: Osteopathic First-Aid

This is a NON-accredited course with emphasis on alternative treatments that ENHANCE existing standard First-aid knowledge.
Most appropriate for medical and osteopathic medical students, residents, MDs, DOs, DCs, Mid-level providers, and non-medical personnel who are experienced First-Aid providers.

BUT, this seminar proceeds on the assumptions
• you do not have immediate access to medical care
• may not for hours to days

NOT your STANDARD FIRST AID course

OBJECTIVES
• Practical and Simple
• Everyone should walk away
o KNOWING how to be a more effective First Responder
o ABLE TO DO AT LEAST ONE THING you might not have been able to do before to help someone in distress

Possible causes and in-the-field treatments of
-Muscle Cramps
-Coughing/Lungs filling up/Short of Breath
-Sudden Low Back Pain without Impact

Sprains, especially Sprained Ankle
R.I.C.E vs M.E.A.T
Why to avoid NSAIDS

Part 2
Hands-On Workshop

Comprehensive Integrative Pain Diagnostics and Treatment

A version exists for healthcare professionals.
A second version, less technical, but easily understandable, is available for general audiences.

Non-medical audiences will leave with a deep understanding of the choices the have when seeking care for health, especially for chronic pain.

Medical audiences will walk away with a deep understanding of the failures and fallacies of modern healthcare and the choices they can make to improve the system and the care they personally provide.

Osteopathic Manipulation (OMM/OMT) & Osteopathic Principles and Practice

Adaptable to premed, medical & osteopathic medical students, general audiences, executives, and healthcare professionals.

While knowledge of OMM and OPP will allow all of the above to make informed choices regarding their careers and healthcare choices, they will learn lessons they can immediately apply to their everyday lives, daily actions, and personal choices. Osteopathic principles and practice are not just medical terms; they are a philosophical choice for living a better, richer life.

Misdiagnosis as a Cause of Chronic Pain

Redeeming Osteopathy: What Osteopathic Students & Their Schools Need to Know

How to Cure Pain After Pain Surgery Fails