- Industry: Alternative therapy
- Number of terms: 437
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 plane passing longitudinally through the body from one side to the other, and dividing the body into anterior and posterior portions.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A plane passing longitudinally through the body from one side to the other, and dividing the body into anterior and posterior portions.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A plane passing horizontally through the body perpendicular to the sagittal and frontal planes, dividing the body into upper and lower portions.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A plane passing horizontally through the body perpendicular to the sagittal and frontal planes, dividing the body into upper and lower portions.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A direct technique that usually involves lateral stretching, linear stretching, deep pressure, traction and/or separation of muscle origin and insertion while monitoring tissue response and motion changes by palpation.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A direct technique that usually involves lateral stretching, linear stretching, deep pressure, traction and/or separation of muscle origin and insertion while monitoring tissue response and motion changes by palpation.
Industry:Alternative therapy
1. A small hypersensitive site that, when stimulated, consistently produces a reflex mechanism that gives rise to referred pain and/or other manifestations in a consistent reference zone that is consistent from person to person. 2. These points were most extensively and systematically documented by Janet Travell, MD, and David Simons, MD.
Industry:Alternative therapy
1. A small hypersensitive site that, when stimulated, consistently produces a reflex mechanism that gives rise to referred pain and/or other manifestations in a consistent reference zone that is consistent from person to person. 2. These points were most extensively and systematically documented by Janet Travell, MD, and David Simons, MD.
Industry:Alternative therapy
1. A sacral somatic dysfunction that involves rotation of the sacrum about a middle transverse axis such that the sacral base has moved posteriorly relative to the pelvic bones. Backward movement of the sacral base is freer, forward movement is restricted and both sulci are shallow. 2. The reverse of bilateral sacral flexion.
Industry:Alternative therapy
1. A sacral somatic dysfunction that involves rotation of the sacrum about a middle transverse axis such that the sacral base has moved posteriorly relative to the pelvic bones. Backward movement of the sacral base is freer, forward movement is restricted and both sulci are shallow. 2. The reverse of bilateral sacral flexion.
Industry:Alternative therapy
