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CUTTING-EDGE, PLATELET-RICH PLASMA THERAPY EMERGING AS NEW OPTION FOR AILING ATHLETES
by Jenny Vrentas/The Star-Ledger
Saturday July 18, 2009, 10:23 PM
No white linoleum or fluorescent lighting here. There's classical music, dark wooden bookcases, a desk disappearing under dog-eared medical tomes. A human skeleton dangles from a metal pole; I reflexively imagine the hollow clackety-clack of jostling bones. Taking off my shoes, I stand next to a padded exam table. Dr. Daniel Shadoan places his hands lightly on my shoulders. I stand straight and breathe deep, wondering what his hands are telling him. Is my weight distributed evenly on both feet? Is one shoulder higher than the other? He asks how I'm feeling, and I say my lower back has been hurting. "Hmm," he murmurs. Shadoan is an osteopathic physician, or DO, and I'm about to receive a treatment known as osteopathic manual manipulation.
