Osteopathic urgent care physician Christine Linh Cao, DO evaluates acute illness and injury at Kaiser Permanente La Mesa Medical Offices, the health system's east-county campus on Parkway Drive near Lake Murray Boulevard. Her board certification in family practice with osteopathic manipulative treatment reflects a dual diagnostic framework—combining conventional urgent care assessment with musculoskeletal palpation—and her identification of acute behavioral-health episodes in the urgent care setting connects patients to counseling resources such as Healing Balance Therapy Inc. for follow-up care. Dr. Cao earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2013 and is affiliated with Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center. Acute spinal and joint complaints evaluated under her osteopathic framework also generate referral pathways to community musculoskeletal providers like Awesome Family Chiropractic - La Mesa for patients seeking ongoing manipulative care outside the Kaiser network. The La Mesa facility at 8080 Parkway Drive in the 91942 ZIP provides same-campus radiology, laboratory, and pharmacy services for one-stop urgent care resolution. Diagnostic capabilities include bedside point-of-care ultrasound for musculoskeletal and soft-tissue evaluation and OMT-informed structural assessment of acute cervical, thoracic, and lumbar dysfunction.