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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. ...
The somatic dysfunction that maintains a total dysfunction pattern including other secondary dysfunctions.
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The specific finding of alternating fascial motion preference at transitional regions of the body described by Zink and Neidner.
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The therapeutic application of manually guided forces by an osteopath (nonphysician) to improve physiological function and homeostasis that has been altered by somatic dysfunction.
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The therapeutic application of manually guided forces by an osteopathic physician (U.S. usage) to improve physiologic function and/or support homeostasis that has been altered by somatic dysfunction. OMT employs a variety of techniques including:
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The therapeutic use of anatomic and physiologic mechanisms to facilitate the body’s response toward homeostasis and improved health.
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The three major principles of physiologic motion are: _x000D_
I. When the thoracic and lumbar spine are in a neutral position (easy normal), the coupled motions of sidebending and rotation for a group of vertebrae are such that sidebending and rotation occur in opposite directions (with rotation occurring toward the convexity). _x000D_
II. When the thoracic and lumbar spine are sufficiently forward or backward bent (non-neutral), the coupled motions of sidebending and rotation in a single vertebral unit occur in the same direction. _x000D_
~III. 1. Initiating motion of a vertebral segment in any plane of motion will modify the movement of that segment in other planes of motion. 2. Principles I and II of thoracic and lumbar spinal motion described by Harrison H. Fryette, DO (1918), Principle III was described by C.R. Nelson, DO (1948). See rotation. See also rotation of vertebra.
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This fellowship is an earned post-doctoral degree conferred by the American Academy of Osteopathy. Those who earn the FAAO degree must have demonstrated their commitment to osteopathic principles and practice through teaching, writing, and professional service, performed at the highest level of professional and ethical standards.
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Thoracic or lumbar somatic dysfunction of a single vertebral unit in which the vertebra is significantly flexed or extended with sidebending and rotation in the same direction (rotation occurs into the concavity of the curve) based upon the Principles of Fryette.
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Tonic contraction of the muscles in response to a stretching force, due to stimulation of muscle receptors (e.g., deep tendon reflex).
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