Crook received his doctor of osteopathy degree from Nova Southeastern University Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine and did an osteopathic internship at St. Joseph's Northeast Heights in Albuquerque. I finished by residency in 1998 in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Most P.M.R. residency programs require one year of internal medicine followed by three years of specialty training. It incorporates different training in fields of stroke rehab, dealing with patients who have had amputations, patients who have been in car wrecks with traumatic brain injuries as well as dealing with people with various types of back pain and sports injuries that do not require surgery as well as those patients that have had surgery. My interest in sports in conjunction with the fact that I like outdoor sports such as whitewater kayaking, bicycling, as well as running.
Osteopathic medicine is a different branch of medicine.
Osteopath's have a holistic approach as taught in our medical schools. We are taught to look at the body as a whole. Therefore, in addition to meeting all the requirements of traditional medical schools, we also have incorporated into our program 200 hours of osteopathic manipulative medicine. I am not a chiropractor so in whole, I can only speak from a D.O. point of view and my relationship with chiropractors in the past, most chiropractors practice spinal manipulation involving high velocity techniques, i.e. snack, crackle, pop. Therefore, in addition to doing manipulations of the spine, we also do manipulation of the muscles, tissues, and other components of the body.