2. Intro the Osteopathic Cranial Manipulation Flashcards
Who is credited for starting cranial manipulation?
William Garner Sutherland
Explain the basis (not componenets) of primary respiratory mechanism (PRM)
Primary: cranial motion is the “funtamental process of life”
Respiratory: cranial motion has flow motion like breath “of life”
Mechanism: pattern of tissue and fluid movement with a distinct purpose
What are the five components of PRM?
- Inherent mobility (passive) of brain and SC
- Fluctuation of cerebral spinal fluid
- Mobility of intracranial and intraspinal membranes
- Articulatory mobility of cranial bones
- Involuntary (passive) mobility of sacrum b/t ilia
What is the driving push in CSF and how many times is CSF cycled through?
Cranial Rhythmic Impulse is the driving force that moves CSF through 10-14 cycles/minute
What are the motion chracracteristics of the Cranial Rhythmic Impulse? R-RADS
Rate: 10-14 BPM
Rhythm: regular, but can have variation
Amplitude: SD may diminish
Direction: healthy is linear, SD is asymmetric
Strength
What is the intracranial and intraspinal membranes and what do they come together to create?
Intracranial membranes are the falx cerebri and the tentorium cerebelli that make the “Sutherland Fulcrum”
What is the Sutherland Fulcrum?
A name for the straight sinus as the origin of the falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli
Describe the Reciprocal Tension Membrane?
The meninges and spinal cord make a link from cranium that correlates with movement in the sacrum
-the “core link”
What do the tentorium and falx come together to create?
the reciprical tension membrane, which allows for constant tension and acts like a spring to store energy
Why is the straight sinus, or sutherland fulcrum, said to be a suspended automatic shifting fulcrum?
Suspended: pivot point of fulcrum remains within RTM created by falx and tentorium
Automatic: passive motion
Shifting: straight sinus moves up and down
What is the anterior/superior pole of the RTM?
Crista galli
What is the anterior/inferior pole of the RTM?
Clinoid process of sphenoid
What is the lateral pole of the RTM?
Mastoid angle of parietals and petrous ridges of the temporal bones
What is the posterior pole of the RTM?
Internal occipital protuberance and transverse ridges
What is the suture between the parietal and temporal bones?
Parietosquamous