Clinical Application and Research of OCMM Flashcards
What are the general goals of craniosacral treatments?
- Reduce venous congestion
- Mobilize articular restrictions
- Balance SBS
- Enhance any reduced force, rate, and amplitude of the CRI
What can a palatine SD produce?
- Pterigo/sphenopalatine ganglion involvement which influences trigeminal output
What important about the pterygopalatine ganglion?
- Activates muscles of mastication AND the tensor tympani, tensor veli palatini, mylohyoid and anterior belly of digastric
Helpful with TMJ and has influence in swallowing and speech in children
What is the clinical correlation with the ear and temporal bone?
- Otitis media –> Involves impaired drainage of the eustachian tube and improving drainage clears infections faster
- ETD –> fluid provides a breeding ground for infection and also reduces motion of TM for hearing
Where does the eustachian tube lie?
- Eustachian tube passes within the temporal bone and exit auditory canal and lies between petrous temporal bone and the greater wing of sphenoid
What is cephalgia?
- Headaches
Can OCMM help cephalgia?
- Can reduce migraine frequency and severity and can end active migraines
What are some arterial causes of cephalgia?
- Distention, traction or dilation of intracranial or extracranial arteries –> middle meningeal or superficial temporal arteries
What are the symptoms of bells palsy?
- Weakness of side facial muscles
- Possible change in taste
How can OCMM affect bells palsy?
- May have influence on temporal bone alignment, regional tissue strain, and improved local lymphatic flow
How does trigeminal neuralgia cause cephalgia?
- Lancinating pain in the face which lasts between a few seconds and two minutes
- Stimulus can be simple chewing or brushing of teeth
How was parietal bone motion detected early on?
- Used a pick, touching the parietal bones and measured motion of the human skull
What nerve causes trigeminal neuralgia?
- V2
How did NASA confirm cranial bone motion?
- Used ultrasound to measure to the micron accuracy
- Human volunteers were tilted head down and the AP distance increased to a maximum of over one millimeter
What are Traube-Hering waves?
- Pattern of changes in arterial BP
- Tightly coupled with synchronous oscillations of efferent sympathetic nervous activity