Jared Dubey, DO
Board certified osteopathic physician practicing traditional Osteopathy
Our Mission
To provide an attentive clinical experience that allows patients to reconnect with their bodies and function at their best.
About the Practice
Stillwater Osteopathic Medicine is a physician led micro-practice focused on hands-on Osteopathic care for individuals seeking a holistic and non-pharmacologic approach to healing and change. We emphasize unhurried care using traditional Osteopathy along with select modern and integrative medicine to identify and treat the root causes of dysfunction to support health and healing.
About Dr. Dubey
Jared was inspired to become an osteopathic physician during his own healing journey after a rock climbing injury at age 22. He became frustrated with the conventional approach, not seeing improvement, and eventually found relief after being treated by a D.O. practicing traditional Osteopathy. This inspired him to attend osteopathic medical school. Jared graduated from osteopathic medical school at Touro University in California in 2014, where in addition to required courses, he studied traditional Osteopathy with teachers and mentors in the lineage of AT Still, MD, DO and William Sutherland, DO. He then moved to Madison, WI where he completed Family Medicine residency training and a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. After completing his fellowship in 2019, Dr Dubey was appointed to a faculty position in the Department of Family Medicine at UW, where he taught MD and DO residents and maintained an osteopathic primary care practice that included care for patients of all ages in the clinic and hospital settings. Throughout his residency, fellowship, and faculty tenure, he continued to study traditional Osteopathy through formal continuing education courses and mentorships, incorporating this impactful healing approach with his patients. After over a decade in the academic setting, Dr. Dubey realized his dream of opening a private practice specializing in traditional Osteopathy, where he can focus his energies on providing individualized care to support lasting change in a calm and healing environment.
About Osteopathy
Holistic & integrative medicine hiding in plain sight.
Osteopathy is, at its core, a health care philosophy. The term Osteopathy was coined by Andrew Taylor Still, MD in 1874. Still was a physician with 20+ years of experience practicing the conventional medicine of his time, but he became disillusioned with what were often harmful methods (bloodletting, mercury dosing, etc). So he went back to basics, studied anatomy and physiology in-depth, and took inspiration from alternative and traditional healing practices such as magnetism and bonesetting. Still reasoned that the body had the inherent capacity to heal and that removing structural obstructions to normal functioning would allow that drive to manifest. Still’s methods were wildly successful, patients came from far and wide, and he began to teach students his methods.
Since its inception in 1874, Osteopathy has evolved with the times. In keeping with its roots in the medical profession, this evolution has taken place within and alongside developments in medical science. Today, osteopathic medicine is the modern expression of the best of Still’s Osteopathy combined with life-saving advancements in conventional medicine, such as antibiotics, vaccination, sterile surgery, laboratory analysis, and imaging modalities. Compared to conventional M.D.s (Medical Doctors), D.O.s (Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine) take the same entrance exams (MCAT), complete an equivalent 4 years of medical school, compete alongside M.D.s for the same residency spots across the breadth of medical and surgical specialties, and are granted the same unrestricted licensure for the full scope of medical and surgical practice. In fact, M.D. and D.O. education and training has merged so thoroughly that the majority of D.O.s practice indistinguishably from their M.D. counterparts. However, D.O. schools continue to devote several hundred hours of curriculum (a small fraction of overall time) to the philosophy of Osteopathy and the practice of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (aka OMT, the modern evolution of Still’s manual techniques for adjusting the human body back to health). After medical school, a small, but passionate minority of D.O.s choose to specialize in traditional Osteopathy, attending residency training programs for board certification in OMT or neuromusculoskeletal medicine. Additionally, Osteopathy continues to be passed on through continuing education societies, mentoring, and apprenticeships.
Osteopathy and Other Modalities
Osteopathy has a rich history of inspiring and seeding important developments in western therapeutic bodywork. In many ways, these offshoots of Osteopathy are more widely known than the soil from which they grew. Craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, muscle energy techniques, counterstrain, facilitated positional release, visceral manipulation, high velocity low amplitude thrust (ie chiropractic) – these modalities were all inspired by and in many cases explicitly started by a D.O., to share aspects of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) with non-physician bodyworkers. Many talented bodyworkers benefit from Osteopathy’s inspiration and do valuable healing work, but only an osteopathic physician (D.O.) applies the full breadth of Osteopathy in the context of comprehensive medical training to make diagnoses that allow for individualized and specific treatment plans.