Osteopathic Medicine Lecture Powerpoint

Question 1

Osteopathic physician vs osteopath

Answer 1

An osteopath is a diplomat of osteopathy, is not a physician and has a limited scope of practice and isn’t recognized in many countries

Question 2

Founder of osteopathic medicine

Answer 2

AT Still

Question 3

Bonesetters

Answer 3

Historical doctors with manipulative skills passed down thru familial generations to provide relief for individuals who could not afford a traditional doctor

Question 4

Heroic medicine

Answer 4

Old forms of common medical practice that makes use of purging (diarrhea), blood letting, blistering, and amputation to relieve affect of ailments (rather than cure actual disease), altered signitficantly by introduction of osteopathic medicine

Question 5

4 principles of osteopathic medicine

Answer 5

• The body is a unit of body, mind, and spirit
• body is capable of self regulation, healing, and health maintenance
• structure and function are reciprocally interrelated
• rational treatment is based on the understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self regulation, and interrelationship of structure and function

Question 6

Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)

Answer 6

Hands on care involving using hands to diagnose, treat, or prevent illness or injury by moving msucles and joints using techniques including stretching, pressure, and resistance - does NOT heal, a catalyst for the body to heal itself

Question 7

Counterstrain

Answer 7

Osteopathic technique involving shortening tightened muscles for a period and then passively returning it to rest after holding (slow return to rest)

Question 8

Muscle energy

Answer 8

Osteoopathic technique involving moving a patient being moved to a position of muscle tightness, then have the patient push against that position, before being moved further into the position in an attempt to increase range of motion

Question 9

High velocity low amplitude

Answer 9

Osteopathic technique involving a quick pull short distance of an extremity or the spine to loosen stiff joints and relax tissue

Question 10

Myofacial release

Answer 10

An osteopathic technique involving the minor physical manipulation of bones and joints at the facia of the tissue to alleviate tenderness and discomfort

Question 11

Visceral manipulation and an example

Answer 11

An osteopathic technique that involves compression of the viscera for a desired effect (improve expectorate ability or constipation)

example is the lung manipulation of the 1918 spanish flu epidemic