Historical Review Flashcards
When did the AOA formed the AT Still Research Institute?
1909
What 5 schools remained after the merger in California?
Kirksville, Chicago, KC, Philadelphia, and Des Moines
When did outside sources begin to fund Osteopathic research?
1970s-2000
Where was the Osteopathic Research Center placed and around what time?
Texas School
after 2001-2007 because this time period we lacked a research institute
How can we define OMM research?
- Institutional
- Autonomics and Immune
- Functions Spinal Cord
- Facilitation
- OMT efficacy
- Whole patient care
- Any and all research at a COM
What is the official definition of OMM research?
“Investigator has to state relevance of proposed project to Osteopathic philosophy and principles, theories, mechanisms or practice.”
-AOA Bureau of Research
Louisa Burns, DO 1870-1958
- Director, AT Still Research Institute 1917-1935
- Paid AOA researcher until 1950
- Experimentally induced spinal fixations in animals & then noted the effects of these lesions on brain, heart, GI, reproductive organs, lungs, kidneys (S-V Relfexes)
- V-S reflexes
Wilbur Cole, DO
- studied with Dr. Burns 1948-50
- reproduced her experiments and data
- internal validation
J.S. Denslow, DO (1906-?)
- Did numerous studies documenting & quantifying muscle, muscle reflex & autonomic changes in areas of somatic dysfunction (“osteopathic lesion”).
- “Reflex Activity in the Spinal Extensors”, utilized EMG/palpation correlation: documented spinal muscle reflex changes in areas of osteopathic lesions.
- Standard Terminology Proponent (so people from different schools can best communicate)
- Facilitation of spinal cord
I.M. Korr, Ph.D. (1909-2004)
- Performed studies documenting changes in galvanic skin resistance as a result of disturbances in autonomic function, in areas of skin of subjects associated with palpatory findings of somatic dysfunction
- Axoplasmic flow & the trophic function of nerves
- Facilitation of spinal cord (with Denslow)
- Sympatheticotonia (heighten sympathetic tone in disease states)
- promoted entire DO-pt interaction
Who is the second great philosopher of Osteopathic medicine?
I.M. Korr, Ph.D.
- he added physiology to Dr. Stills anatomical foundation
Wiliam L. Johnston, DO, FAAO (1921-2003)
- reliability studies
- validity studies
- viscerosomatic reflexes
What happened in the influenza epidemic of 1918?
DOs»_space;»> MDs
due to OMT…sure
LA County Osteopathic Hospital (Unit II)
DOs had a lower mortality, decreased days average LOS, and they matched MDs coroner’s cases
DOs vs. MDs LBP tx
DO pts used much less NSAIDs, muscle relaxants, and PT
*outcome was the same (except less medications for DO pts)
