OPP: 22 things

Question 1

who founded the osteopathic medical profession?

Answer 1

Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO

Question 2

what was the year that he said he discovered osteopathy?

Answer 2

1874

Question 3

what was the name of the first osteopathic medical school?

Answer 3

American school of osteopathy

Question 4

what year was the first school founded?

Answer 4

1892

Question 5

where was the first school?

Answer 5

Kirksville, Missouri

Question 6

if you have to express osteopathic philosophy in about 5 words

Answer 6

seek health in your patients

Question 7

name the 4 tenets of osteopathic medical philosophy (word for word)

Answer 7

1. The human being is a dynamic unit of function (mind, body, and spirit)
2. the body possesses self-regulatory mechanisms that are self-healing in nature
3. structure and function are interrelated at all levels
4. rational treatment is based on these principles

Question 8

the last tenet separately

Answer 8

rational treatment is based on knowledge of body unity, its self-regulatory, self-healing mechanisms, and that structure and function are interrelated at all levels

Question 9

2 most common presenting complaints which may indicate need for OMT

Answer 9

1. Pain

2. restriction of motion

Question 10

name two values/conditions in the muscles and bones which are generally set to pathological values in somatic dysfunction, and are the first gross values reset by OMT

Answer 10

1. muscle length and tension

2. joint surface apposition

Question 11

“the rule of the artery is…”

Answer 11

supreme”

Question 12

the first state to license the practice of osteopathy was

Answer 12

Vermont 1896

Question 13

last state to license osteopathic medicine

Answer 13

Mississippi 1973

Question 14

what are the five models of somatic function and dysfunction

Answer 14

1. biomechanical
2. respiratory-circulatory
3. neurologic
4. metabolic energy
5. behavioral