What is this paper about
This paper shows that OMT is not confined to musculoskeletal symptom relief, but sits at the intersection of pain modulation, autonomic regulation, neonatal care, and selected inpatient applications, with its strongest recurrent signal in chronic low back pain. The full read is worth it because it separates where the evidence is genuinely convincing, where mechanistic findings deepen the clinical story, and where the field still rests on mixed or low-certainty data.