- Industry: 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 technique that consists of intermittent compression of the thoracic cage.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A term coined by C. Earl Miller to describe the impact of intrathoracic pressure changes on lymphatic flow. This was the name originally given to the thoracic pump technique before the more extensive physiologic effects of the technique were recognized.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A term coined by William G. Sutherland to refer to the anatomical connection between the occiput and the sacrum by the spinal dura mater.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A term in functional methods to describe a bony structure with its articular surfaces and adnexal tissues (neuromuscular and connective) for segmental motion which affects movement, stabilizes position and allows coordinated participation in passive movement.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A term used by osteopathic practitioners to denote the process of palpating the patient to evaluate the structure and function of the neuromusculoskeletal and visceral systems.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A term used to identify and describe the temporary cessation of the rhythmic motion of the primary respiratory mechanism. It may occur during osteopathic manipulative treatment when a point of balanced membranous or ligamentous tension is achieved.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A therapeutic system in which a disease is treated by producing a second condition that is incompatible with or antagonistic to the first.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A tissue texture abnormality characterized principally by a palpable sense of sponginess in the tissue, interpreted as resulting from congestion due to increased fluid content.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A transitional segment in which the first sacral segment becomes like an additional lumbar vertebra articulating with the second sacral segment.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A treatment system in which combined procedures are designed to stretch and reflexly release patterned soft tissue and joint-related restrictions. Both direct and indirect methods are used interactively.
Industry:Alternative therapy
