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Osteopathy
A form of alternative healthcare that emphasizes the interrelationship between structure and function of the body, as well as the body's ability to heal itself. It aims to facilitate the healing process through the practice of manual and manipulative therapy.
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post-isometric relaxation
Alternative therapy; Osteopathy
Immediately following an isometric contraction, the neuromuscular apparatus is in a refractory state during which enhanced passive stretching may be performed. The osteopathic practitioner may take ...
visceral dysfunction
Alternative therapy; Osteopathy
Impaired or altered mobility or motility of the visceral system and related fascial, neurological, vascular, skeletal and lymphatic elements.
chronic somatic dysfunction
Alternative therapy; Osteopathy
Impairment or altered function of related components of the somatic (body framework) system. It is characterized by tenderness, itching, fibrosis, paresthesias and tissue contraction.
mobile point
Alternative therapy; Osteopathy
In counterstrain, the final position of treatment at which tenderness is no longer elicited by palpation of the tender point.
superior pubic shear
Alternative therapy; Osteopathy
A somatic dysfunction in which one pubic bone is displaced superiorly with relation to its normal mate.
inferior innominate shear
Alternative therapy; Osteopathy
A somatic dysfunction in which the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) are inferior to the contralateral landmarks. The innominate (os coxae) moves more ...