6 - OPP in Family Medicine (Sandhouse)

Question 1

What is the application of Osteopathic philosophy in the Family Medicine setting?

Answer 1

• There is a somatic component to EVERY illness/disease.

- Listen to your patient with eyes and ears/ “Human” approach

Question 2

What OMT technique can treat medial strabismus, which is caused by CN VI?

Answer 2

Cranial techniques

Question 3

T or F: Eye pain can be caused by trigger points?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What can cause eustachian tube dysfunction secondary to pterygoid function asymmetry?

a) TMJ
b) ear pain
c) tinnitus
d) diminished hearing

Answer 4

a) TMJ

Ear pain, tinnitus, diminished hearing are symptoms caused by TMJ

Question 5

T or F: Obicularis oculi muscle trigger points can cause pain in both eyes and nose?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What CNs pass through the sphenoid?

Answer 6

2,3,4,6

Question 7

What is a common cause for ear pain through eustachian tube dysfxn?

Answer 7

TMJ

Question 8

What CN passes through the ethmoid bone?

Answer 8

1

Question 9

Pelvic diaphragm dysfxn can cause what in females?

Answer 9

Dyspareunia (Painful intercourse) and menstrual irregularities

Question 10

Dental pain can be caused by cranial restrictions affecting what nerve? Caused by what bone?

Answer 10

CN 5, Sphenoid

Question 11

Trigger points in what muscle is most likely to cause throat pain?

Answer 11

Digastric or medial pterygoid

Question 12

Diaphragmatic irritation can refer pain to where?

Answer 12

The shoulders

Question 13

What would be a good treatment for maxillary sinusitis?

Answer 13

OA decompression

Question 14

Good treatment for ear pain?

Answer 14

OA decompression, Get the temporal bones moving

Question 15

Treatment for low back pain?

Answer 15

Pelvis, sacrum, Big 3- Piriformis, Psoas, Quadratus Lumborum