The facilitated pathway Flashcards
What is the rule of the artery?
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What is the rule of the artery?
Postulation by AT that disease was a state in which the proper amount of blood flowing through a diseased part of the body was lacking
Ischemia = death of tissue
What is a direct blockage?
A direct constriction of an artery or vein that decreases the delivery/return of blood
What did Gordon Zink postulate?
Poor diaphragmatic action d/t SDs leads to pooling of lymph
What is facilitation?
The maintenance of a pool of neurons in a state of partial or subthreshold excitation; in this state, less afferent stimulation is needed to trigger a response
What is a facilitated segment?
A vertebral segment or spinal cord level that exhibits facilitation
What is a facilitated pathway?
Alterations in muscle tone, resulting in myofascial CT stiffness, contracture, and pain
What is a reflex?
An involuntary action or response
Is a reflex reproducible?
Yes
What is pain?
unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage
What did Dr. Korr thoerize?
That large portion of neurons are kept near their points of depolarization, making them more sensitive to the production of an action potential
The facilitated state can lead to what?
Alteration in muscle tone, resulting in myofascial CT stiffness, contracture, and pain
Repeated or strong stimuli tend to do what? Does this happen in the case of nociceptors?
Elicit a decremental response. Opposite with nociceptors
What is the approach to evaluation and treatment of SDs?
- History and diagnosis
- Diagnose SDs by reasoning what anatomical areas
- Treat SD
- Inhibit or stimulate
What does stimulation involve?
Percussion, or faster, deeper soft tissue techniques
What does inhibition involve?
Soothing, slow pressure
Do you stimulate the sympathetic nervous system in asthma, or inhibit?
Stimulate
The autonomic nervous system shows segmental preference (in SDs) in regard to what?
Visceral organs
What are the four types of facilitated pathways?
- Viscero somatic
- Somatic-visceral
- Somato-somatic
- Viscero-visceral
How are the facilitated pathways named?
from the origin of the information, and the locus of action
Are viscero somatic dysfunctions short or long term?
Short (gallbladder, menstrual pain, MI)
Are somato-visceral chronic or acute?
Chronic
What are examples of viscero-visceral reflexes?
Heart and stomach
Stomach and gallbladder
Lung and heart
