Structural Exam Flashcards
What is an easy way to see R and L asymmetries?
Skin creases on waist, elbows, back of knees
Are R and L sides normally mirror images?
No
Can anyone take credit for manipulative healing?
N
Whose artwork portrays manual treatment?
Hippocrates
Who included “bonesetters”?
Native Americans and European cultures
Whose medical manuscripts had manipulative procedures?
Chinese
Osteopathic medicine focuses on what?
Patient orientated approach; not disease oriented
Is “holistic” exclusive to osteopathic medicine?
NO (mind, body, spirit)
2 things with Heroic Medicine
- Remedies worse than original disease
2. Surgery used no anesthetics and performed outside of sterile field
Who enunciated Germ Theory? When?
Koch; 1890’s
What did Heroic Medicine use to treat medical conditions?
Poisons and/or addictive substances such as mercury, arsenic, opium, cocaine, morphine, and alcohol
5 health affects of Mercury
- Deteriorates nervous system
- Impairs hearing, speech, vision and gait
- Corrodes skin and mucous membranes
- Involuntary muscles movements
- Chewing and swallowing to become difficult
AT Still’s Letters
AT Still, MD, DO
When and where was AT Still born?
August 6th, 1828
Virginia
What did AT Still’s father do?
- Farmer
- Physician
- Methodist Minister
Did AT Still’s family relocate for their dad?
Yes; minister things
3 things AT Still did
- Farmer
- Minister
- Legislator
Where did AT Still study?
Kansas City School of Physicians and Surgeons (now gone)
What did AT Still serve as?
Union Officer and Physician/Surgeon in Civil War
Why did he start to dislike modern medicine? When?
Lost 3 children (2 of his own) to spinal meningitis in 19th century
Who influenced Still?
Plains Native Americans who he ministers to in Kansas