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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. ...
Deviation of the pelvis to the right or left of the central vertical axis as translation occurs along the horizontal (z) axis. Usually observed in the standing position.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Discomfort or pain elicited by the osteopathic practitioner through palpation. 2. A state of unusual sensitivity to touch or pressure.
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During the loading and unloading of connective tissue, the restoration of the final length of the tissue occurs at a rate and to an extent less than during deformation (loading). These differences represent energy loss in the connective tissue system. This difference in viscoelastic behavior (and energy loss) is known as hysteresis (or “stress-strain”). (Foundations, Second Edition, page 1158).
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Dysfunction in a mobile system located at explicit segmental mobile units. Palpable characteristics of a dysfunctional segment are those associated with somatic dysfunction. (See also STAR, TART and ART) Responses to regional motor inputs at the dysfunctional segment support the concepts of complete motor asymmetry and mirrorimage motion asymmetries.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Dysfunctional segmental behavior where a single vertebra and an adjacent rib respond to the same regional motion tests with identical asymmetric behaviors (rather than opposing behaviors). This suggests visceral reflex inputs.
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Every change in form and function of a bone, or in its function alone, is followed by certain definite changes in its internal architecture, and secondary alterations in its external conformations (Stedman’s, 25th ed.); (e.g., bone is laid down along lines of stress).
Industry:Alternative therapy
Exercise using a constant speed of movement of the body part.
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Five models that articulate how an osteopathic practitioner seeks to influence a patient’s physiological processes.
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Flexion at the hip and sidebending of the lumbar spine to the side of the most hypertonic psoas muscle.
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Historically, the straightening in the sagittal plane of a spinal region.
Industry:Alternative therapy
