Alternative therapy

Alternative therapy

Preventative and therapeutic health care practices, such as acupuncture, naturopathy, chiropractic, homeopathy and herbal medicine. Generally do not follow accepted medical methods. May not require medical explanations for their success or use.

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typical gait

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

Trendelenburg gait.

vertebral unit

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

Two adjacent vertebrae with their associated intervertebral disk, arthrodial, ligamentous, muscular, vascular, lymphatic and neural elements.

patient cooperation

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

Voluntary movement by the patient (on instruction from the osteopathic practitioner) to assist in the palpatory diagnosis and treatment process.

Head law

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

When a painful stimulus is applied to a body part of low sensitivity (e.g., viscus) that is in close central connection with a point of higher sensitivity (e.g., soma), the pain ...

sacral base declination

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

With the patient in a standing or seated position, any deviation of the sacral base from the horizontal in a coronal plane. Generally, the rotation of the sacrum about an ...

sacral base unleveling

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

With the patient in a standing or seated position, any deviation of the sacral base from the horizontal in a coronal plane. Generally, the rotation of the sacrum about an ...