Hgf Flashcards
Pedriac patients
Dr. Nichols
Children do not have SD bc more mobility in joints
False
Are kids small adults
No
Infants, school age kids, adolescents
Very young kid
May be held by parent while doing technique or exam
More calm and relaxed better evaluation
Warm your hands
Treatment modalities for young kids
No HVLA
ME difficult to perform in young kids
Articulately, stills, fpr, cs, cranial
Red flags kids
Neck pain, fever, hip pain, ortalni barrlow test do
Not for meningitis or heal broken bones
Kid issues
Torticollis, colic, poor sucking, sinusitis , gerd growing pain,
Cranial treatment
Poor suckle, infant constipation, birth trauma
Condylar decompression
BMT
Msk pain OMT
Examine joint above and below
Ortho exam too
Send home with exercise!
Stretch, strength training
Infants spinal curvature
C spine has slight lordosis, which increases as baby can support his/her own head
Thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis have yet develop
Spinal curvature is very immature
Infants joints
Articulations are cartilagoinous
Bones infants
Maximum flexibility
Sutures infants
Not formed , freest
6 week baby wont stop crying, bloated and gassy
Posterior cervical muscle hypertonicity, compression of occipital condylar, incomplete lactose absorption, increased stress during gestation
Alllll-treat neck cranially, look at abdomen so have more open hiatus and get and spit up, but can still check it and see if restrictions also maybe gas drops for baby
Helmets baby
Decrease cranial rhythm and head has fluctuations dont wanna lock down will effect them
Hard baby head
Had premature closing of sutures
Babies heads are
Squishy and have movement , lots of cartilaginous connections, OA decompression bc nerves come out of here
Cranial dysfunctions infants resolve
With crying and suckling
At 6 weeks if not better
Occipital is the cranial bone most susceptible to dysfunction
Infants head accommodates to pelvic outlet during birth -usually birt trauma
Cranial SD
Birth trauma MCC
Occiput
Most commonly dysfunctional
Cnxii, ix occiput
Poor suck
Cnx occiput
Reflux, vomiting, colic
Cnxi occiput
Colic, muscular dysfunction
Temporal bones
Affects the most cranial nerves
Internally rotated temporal bone
Increase likelihood of OM
Operative vaginal delivery (forceps)
Cnxi-.lateral rectus palsy
Cnvii->facial palsy
2 month old boy bald spot on back of head difficulty following you to left
Left occiput no hair
Spasm of the left sternocleidomastoid
Left trapezium in spasm
Which is most likely cranial strain parter
Right lateral strain
Synostotic vs positional plagiocephaly
Sternocleidomastoid issue-positional, see with baby in car seats a lot , bald spot
Synostotic-
OMT infant
Indirect please , short but frequent, sessions
BMT onc ranial SD, condylar decompression, BLT, MFR to diaphragms and junctions
-suboccipital release
Toddler 1-4
Ossification increases
-some bones become fused
Increased falls, learning to walk
Lots of bands to the noggin
School age
Cranium ossified fully
Epiphyseal plates still open -rapid growth ->growing pain Leg length discrepancy -short leg syndrome -functional scoliosis
Scoliosis screening
Against screening asymptomatic kids
D-fair evidence is ineffective or that harms outweigh benefits
No significant disease better than screening only
American academy of PEDS
Do not support any recommendation against scoliosis screening
-do forward bending test
Adolescents
Epiphyseal plates closing/closed
Innominate fuse by age 20
Sacrum fuse in late adolescents
Adolescent athletes are susceptible to somatic dysfunction
- watch for hypermobility
- what contraindications?
Abdominal complaints
Para OA, AA, pelvic splanchnic
Sympathetic
Chapman apppendix
Tip of 12th, tp of t11
Intestine chapman
Below Asia
Colon chapman
It band
Rectum
Inner thigh
Poor sucking feeding
Cranial-condylar decompression
Gerd
Cranial may be useful, esp if gerd
Viscerosomatics-oa, aa, T5-t9
Constipation omt
Treat dysfunction at viscerosomatic levels
Treat pelvic dysfunction
Mesenteric release
Paraspinal inhibition
Head neck symp
T1-4
Chapman respiratory
Nasal sinuses
Larynx, pharynx, tonsils
Ok
Nasal sinuses
Ant-inferomedial clavicle, lateral to SC jucntion, superior second rib at midclavicular line
Posterior-mastoid process
Larynx
Ant-superior second rib, just medial to sinuses CR
Post-just lateral to spinous processes of C2 (larynx, pharynx, tongue, all sinuses)
Pharynx
Anterior-inferior first rib at sternocostal junction
Post-juts lateral to spinous process of C2 (larynx, pharynx, tongue, all sinuses
Tonsils
Ant-lateral manubrium
Middle ear
Ant-superior clavicle, about 2 -3 cm lateral to SC jucntion
Post-base of occiput at OA joint
Lymphatics
Always open the thoracic duct first
Upper respiratory
Many techniques
-sinusitis-sinus milking techniques, cranial lifts
Otiti mmedia-ear pull, galbreath, muncie technique
Lower respiratoy
Asthma-rib raising, myofascial , assess for and treat any inhalation or exhalation dysfunctions
Pneumonia-similar to asthma treatment..at least from an omt standpoint
9 year old male ab pain, 2-3 bowel movement per week hard a painful. Decreased appetite. Where TTA
Constipation in kids is common.
T10-l2 colon
11 year old female asthma using inhaled daily and rescue inhaled daily. What sad
Inhalation dysfunctio. Ribs 2-10
If using rescue inhaler-step up therapy
14 month old male crying and fever right tympanic membrane inflamed, T 103
Lymphatic, galbreath,cranial, check for internal rotated temporal bone, ear pull,
17 year old male runner complaine knee pain . Tender calcaneous. What have .. positive ober
Plantar fasciitis and it band restriction
11 year old less active, inhaler, SOB in winter, voice sounds like whale. Tart for sympathetic
T2-T6
Ribs?
2-6 pump handle inhalation dysfunction
What rib treat
Bottom rib six treat first
Asthma neuro
B2 agonist->sm m bronchodilation
Immune asthma
Blunt airway inflammatory response
Biomechanical asthma
Treat rib dysfunction->improve thoracic cage respiratory mechanics
-rib and t spine me BLT fpr
Behavioral asthma
Avoid triggers, use meds prior to known exposure
Resp circ asthma
Ribraise, lymphatic tax-> improved pressure differentials in thoracic cage
-rib raising , thoracic pump
3 year old runny nose, fever congestion, tugging on ears, tired, not sleeping
Bulging tympanic membrane, puss bottom of ear. What describe
Erythematous, bulging with purulent effusion
Most likely diagnosis
Acute suppurative otitis media
Otitis media micro
Pneumonia
HI
Moraxella cat
Antibiotics acute otitis media
Give it a few days
4 year old boy clear running nose congestion, HA, cough, less appetitie, no fever, throat red ,ears are
Pearly translucent intact with effusion-look good just with fluid
Galbreath
Diagnosis
Viral uri with serous effusion
Younger age Eustachian tube
Decreased Eustachian tube angle and shorter and have mor gerd and spit up why they have ear infections
OMT otitis media
Reduced recurrence of titis media
OMT for it
Sinus drainage, galbreath, submandibular walking, pre post auricular drainage, cervical drainage, ear pull, BMT cranial,
Kid pain and do what
Nothing and observe-its normal growth pain
Percentage of pregnant women report low back pain
60%
Why pregnant back pain
Changes in maternal structure and biomechanics
Body fluid circulation
Hormonal changes
Treating SD
Adapt to structure and hormone changes, discomfort and better functionality
Scoliosis
Do not increase with preg but may get pain and premature birth
RA
Improved symptoms with preg
-increased cortisol
Anklylosing spofylitis
Aggravated by preg due to increased stress on SI joints
Low back pain
Exaggerated lordosis, forward neck, ligament laxity, down shoulder, weakness and separation of abdominal msucles, widening and increased mobility SI joint, anterior tilt of pelvis, compression due to fluid
Pelvis preg
Anterior tilt leads to lordosis which increase thoracic kyphosis to forward head
29 yo pref at 37 weeks . Back pain for months but unbearable. Worse with activity better with rest. Can radiate down thighs, less sleep, worse pain at night . What find
Decreased ROM of lumbar spine
Back pain etiologies
Postural, msucle week, si joint laxity,
Posterior pelvic pain
Distal and lateral to lumbosacral jucntion
Don’t find neuro
Visceral disease and low back pain
Uti and nephrolithiasis
Alarm finding
Severe paint hat interferes with function, particularly non positional persistent pain at night
Increased pain w cough, sneezing, valsava
Neuro
-by history or on exam
—like bladder REFER ON
Radicular pain
Usually herniated disc from mechanical pressure from baby
Lightening pains, numbness along ilioinguinal and genitofemoral