Test 1 Flashcards
AT Still MD
Founder (1828-1917
-didn’t like the mercurial agents calomel and blue mass…deadly
1864-terrible treatments using bad drugs
1874-AT Still Flung to the breeze the banner of osteopathy
1892 American school of osteopathy: first school in Kirksville Missouri (first class)
Four osteopathic principles
- the body is a unit, body, mind, spirit
- body capable of self regulation, self healing and health maintenance
- structure and fxn reciprocally related
- rational treatment is based on understaning of these principles: body unity, self regulation, and interrelationship of structure and fxn
1917
John martin littlejohn: MD DO graduated still college of osteopathy 1899
ccom 1900
BSO 1917
1996
AZCOM open
somatic dysfunction
impared or altered fxn of related components of the somatic (framework) system. Skeletal, myofascial, lyphatic, vascular..etc..
diagnosed by palpatory and exams finds
TART
Axis and Planes
Axis-transverse(rL), AP(front to back (rod through umbilicus), longitunidal (head to toe)
planes-transverse (top and bottom), saggital (right and left), coronal (front half from back half)
active and passive motion
active: patient moves
passive: you move them
barriers
anatomic (bones ligaments), physiologic(limit by patient) restrictive (abnormal limited motion)
colles fracture
wrist
1874
1896
1910
1917
1918
1962
2001
1874 osteopathy founded
1892 ist class American school of osteopathy
1896 Vermont license DO
1910 Flexner report
1917: at still dies
1918: Spanish flu, osteopathy reduces mortality
1962- do exchange degrees in CA
2001: Louisiana accepts COMLEX