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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. ...
1. The ease with which a tissue may be deformed. 2. Direction of ease in motion testing.
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1. The erythematous biochemical reaction (reactive hyperemia) of the skin in an area that has been stimulated mechanically by friction. The reflex is greater in degree and duration in an area of acute somatic dysfunction as compared to an area of chronic somatic dysfunction. It is a reflection of the segmentally related sympathicotonia commonly observed in the paraspinal area. 2. A red glow reflected from the fundus of the eye when a light is cast upon the retina.
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1. The exaggerated (pathologic) A-P curve of the thoracic spine with concavity anteriorly. 2. Abnormally increased convexity in the curvature of the thoracic spine as viewed from the side.
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1. The functional thoracic inlet consists of T1-4 vertebrae, ribs 1 and 2 plus their costicartilages, and the manubrium of the sternum. 2. The anatomical thoracic inlet consists of T1 vertebra, the first ribs and their costal cartilages, and the superior end of the manubrium.
Industry:Alternative therapy
1. The maintenance of a pool of neurons (e.g., premotor neurons, motor neurons or preganglionic sympathetic neurons in one or more segments of the spinal cord) in a state of partial or subthreshold excitation; in this state, less afferent stimulation is required to trigger the discharge of impulses. 2. A theory regarding the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the neuronal activity associated with somatic dysfunction. 3. Facilitation may be due to sustained increase in afferent input, aberrant patterns of afferent input, or changes within the affected neurons themselves or their chemical environment. Once established, facilitation can be sustained by normal central nervous system (CNS) activity.
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1. The pattern of innervation of structures derived from embryonal mesenchyme (joint capsule, ligament and bone). 2. The area of bone innervated by a single spinal segment. 3. The group of mesenchymal cells emerging from the ventromedial part of a mesodermal somite and migrating toward the notochord. Sclerotomal cells from adjacent somites become merged in inter-somatically located masses that are the primordia of the centra of the vertebrae.
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1. The place of union or junction between two or more bones of the skeleton. 2. The active or passive process of moving a joint through its permitted anatomic range of motion.
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1. The range of sagittal plane spinal positioning in which the first principle of physiologic motion of the spine applies. 2. The point of balance of an articular surface from which all the motions physiologic to that articulation may take place.
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1. The somatic dysfunction that maintains a total pattern of dysfunction. 2. The initial or first somatic dysfunction to appear temporally.
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1. This test discriminates between forward and backward sacral torsion/rotation. 2. This test discriminates between unilateral sacral flexion and unilateral sacral extension.
Industry:Alternative therapy
