OMM for COMLEX Flashcards
Direct Techniques
ME, Articulatory, HVLA, and Soft Tissue
Indirect Techniques
Counterstrain, FPR, and BLT
Exhalation somatic dysfunction rib:muscle
1: Anterior scalene 2: posterior scalene 3-5: pec minor 6-9: Serratus Anterior 10-11:Latissimus Dorsi
Isotonic Muscle Contraction
Approximation of the muscle’s origin and insertion against opposing force without change in tension.
Isometric Muscle Contraction
Increase in muscle tension but no approximation.
Isolytic Muscle Contraction
Contraction against the physician that is overcome and causes the muscle to lengthen.
Concentric Muscle Contraction
Approximation of the origin and insertion without opposing force.
Eccentric Muscle Contraction
Lengthening of the muscles due to an external force.
Only treatment that can be active, passive, direct, or indirect.
MFR
Both OA and AA have opposite rotation/sidebending true or false?
True
Rule of Threes
T1-3,12: SP=TP
T4-6,11: SP 1/2 below TP
T7-10:SP 1 below TP
Atypical Ribs
Have 1s and 2s
1,2,11,12
Pump Handle Ribs
1-5
Bucket Handle Ribs
6-10
True Ribs
1-7
False Ribs
8-12
L5 rotates _______ of the sacral base and sidebends to the _________ as the sacral oblique axis.
Opposite, Same
Psoas Syndrome
Pelvic shift to opposite side, L1 or L2 F/E
Short Leg Syndrome
Sacral base unlevel, vertebral sidebending away from short side and rotation towards, Anterior innominate rotation on short side.