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Sean Kerger

Dr. Shawn Kerger, DO, FAOASM — Clinical Professor and Chair of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine; sports medicine physician and past president of AOASM.

Sep 1, 2026

14:19
How can people decide which one is the right one for them?
14:22
Really, the answer comes down to how it's applied.
14:26
ONMM is the residency training surrounding the use of osteopathic manipulative medicine in the care of patients.
14:35
And that training and that practice really does have a lot of overlap, as you're implying here, with sports medicine.
14:44
We're focused on the diagnosis and treatment of the musculoskeletal system, although sports medicine obviously also deals with the internal medicine of treating athletes as well.
14:53
So things like managing heart conditions, diabetes, renal failure, all of these conditions, seizure disorders in athletes, all of these things are more sort of internal medicine kind of components, but how they affect performance and athletic competition is where the nuance for sports medicine can come in.
15:13
ONMM is really looking at patients from an osteopathic standpoint, but also a musculoskeletal standpoint.

29 MINS LATER

44:04
Did you have any physicians that you shadowed as a pre-med that introduced you to the osteopathic world? Or like, how did you learn about like osteopathic schools?

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