OMT Psychiatry - Huzij Flashcards
osteopathic psychiatry
field of psychiatry as approached through lens of osteopathic philosophy
tenets of osteopathy
1 - human dynamic unit of function
2 - body self-regulatory mechanisms
3 - structure/function interrelated
4 - tx based on these principals
50 of 1000 psych patients
SD at C2 and T4-6
schizo
occipital SD
manic depressive
SBS SD
dementia
frontosphenoid SD
non-reductionism
don’t look at body, mind, spirit as separate
allostasis
reponse to stress
psych patients
many have altered cranial rhythmic pulse
cortisol
shrink hippocampus - memory loss
occurs with PTSD
post MI
depression
religious
less suicide
wide dynamic range neurons
interneurons get lots of info
afferent release imflammatory polypeptides locally - lead to facilitated segment
less effective in psych patients
HVLA
OMT in psych paient
look at
- autonomics
- cranial strain pattenr
- C2, T4-6
- no HVL