- Industrie: Alternative therapy
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The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is a non-profit organization that supports the United States' colleges of osteopathic medicine and serves as a unifying voice for osteopathic medical education. Governed by its Board of Deans and led by President Stephen C. ...
A cranial technique in which the lateral angles of the occipital squama are manually approximated slightly exaggerating the posterior convexity of the occiput and taking the cranium into sustained extension.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A depression just medial to the posterior superior iliac spine (PSIS) as a result of the spatial relationship of the PSIS to the dorsal aspect of the sacrum.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A description of the hypothesized action of cerebrospinal fluid with regard to the craniosacral mechanism.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A direct segmental technique in which a combination of leverage, patient ventilatory movements and a fulcrum are used to achieve mobilization of the dysfunctional segment. May be combined with springing or thrust technique.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A dysfunctional, persistent pattern, in some cases reversible, resulting when homeostatic mechanisms are partially or totally overwhelmed.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A flat surface determined by the position of three points in space. Any of a number of imaginary surfaces passing through the body and dividing it into segments.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A form of osteopathic manipulative diagnosis and treatment in which the patient’s muscles are actively used on request, from a precisely controlled position, in a specific direction, and against a distinctly executed physician counterforce. First described in 1948 by Fred Mitchell, Sr, DO.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A forward translation of the body’s center of gravity by bipedal locomotion.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A functional limit that abnormally diminishes the normal physiologic range.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A group curve of thoracic and/or lumbar vertebrae in which the freedoms of motion are in neutral with sidebending and rotation in opposite directions with maximum rotation at the apex (rotation occurs toward the convexity of the curve) based upon the Principles of Fryette.
Industry:Alternative therapy
