OCMM Clinical Research Flashcards
What are the goals of craniosacral movement?
Reduce venous congestion, mobilize articular restrictions, balance the SBS, and enhance any reduced force, rate and amplitude of the CRI
OCMM treatment can affect and be aimed at what?
Outer fascial layers, sutural ligaments (fibrous joints connected by dense CT-synarthrosis), intracranial membranes, also structures that pass thru, between or out of bones, has subtle brain effects
Any dysfunctional bone postition places stress on what?
The brain, arteries, veins and venous sinuses thru direct connections to dura and arachnoid
Cranial dura at the occiput and foramen magnum is contiguous with what?
Spinal cord dura and therefore influences all spinal nerves and can pull on the vertebrae; vertebral SD similarly pulls on the dura influencing the cranium
What sx are seen with CN VI damage?
Diplopia, esotropia, Bell’s palsy
What sx are seen with CN VIII damage?
Enters acoustic meatus and exits stylomastoid foramen; can lead to tinnitus, vertigo, hearing loss
What sx are seen with CN IX and X damage?
HA, arrthymias, GI upset, respiratory problems
What sx are seen with CN XI damage?
Enters foramen magnum joins with the cranial division and exits the jugular foramen; sx include SCM or trap facilitation
Palatine SD may produce what?
Pterigo/sphenopalatine ganglion involvement (somato-somatic reflex)
Where does the eustachian tube travel?
Passes within the temporal bone and exits in the auditory canal; tube lies in the groove between the petrous temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid
Where is the trigeminal ganglion located?
Rests in Meckel’s cave on the superior surface of the petrosal ridge of the temporal bone; its cover is dural
The tentorium cerebri is tightly attached to what?
At the petrosal ridge
The temporal bone is rotated, pressure would be put on the structures deep to the tentorium cerebelli including what?
Trigeminal N and major arteries
Putting external pressure on the temporal bones causes what?
Observable changes in respiration, blood pressure and CSF pressure
Putting external pressure on the sagittal suture causes what?
No change observed in respiration or BP; however still caused lateral and rotational movement at the parietal bones
Suture compression and overriding sutures are common in what population?
Newborns
XI and brachial plexus strains may be related to what?
The birth process
Describe some newborn considerations
Stress of CN IX and X at the jugular foramen and condylar compression causing CN XII dysfunction can also cause suckling dysfunction in the newborn; IX vagal SD cna be due to OA, AA and/or C2 dysfunciton
What is the clinical use for occipital condylar compression?
Poor infant feeding, infant colic, head and neck pain, post trauma to head and neck
What is the clinical use for BMT?
Assymetrical or diminished CRI, cranial N entrapment, sx related to dural strain or venous sinuses, HA
What are the clinical uses for SBS decompression?
Diminished CRI, mood disorders, cranial N entrapment, URI/head congestion, pediatric developmental problems
What are the clinical uses for a frontal lift?
Restricted frontal mobility, to augment SBS flexion, frontal HA, sinus congestion, pediatric developmental issues
What are the clinical uses for parietal lift?
TMJ, HA, decompresses squamosal (parietal-squamous) suture, compressed with trauma clinching/grinding of teeth
What are the clinical uses for pterigo(spheno)palatine ganglion inhibition/stimulation?
TMJ, migraine, tension HA, sinusitis
