Tucker Questions - Mod 1 Flashcards
According to Tucker, what are 3 possible kinds of causes of disease in the human body?
Mechanical or structural disorder
Functional strain or exhaustion
Hereditary weakness
According to Tucker, what needs to be increasingly emphasized in order to distinguish between a legitimate practitioner and a parasitic one?
Increased technical training
The emphasis on the technical training requirement for doctors of Osteopathy in schools, in publicity, until it has become generally understood
According to Tucker, how would an osteopathic lesion create a neurological lesion?
Osteopathic lesions only exists when the spine is involved and there is a proverbial loop involved in the related elements (relative anatomy - NAVEL)
Communication is through the motor line or the nervous system
How would an osteopath know how long their treatment should be and how frequently to treat a patient?
Frequency of treatment is a matter of the severity of the condition and the character of the disease.
Mechanical conditions of the framework will also improve the operator’s decision in the dosage for treatment
What is significant about the 4th dorsal nerves?
Prove to be a specific centre for the vagus nerve
Supplies the esophagus, lungs, heart & head, face & neck structures
According to Tucker, what are specific nerve centers?
Gateways within the body
Specific centres are points within reach from the outside of the body where direct effects can be had on a given group of nerve centers.
How do you get motion in the joint where a specific center is found?
Removing tension from muscle improves blood flow allowing nutrients
Contract and relax in order to move fluid in and out of the tissue/area
Takes pressure off of blood vessels - external pumping motion
Blood flow and restoration
What are the consequences of over treating a patient?
Confine effect to immediately
Irritation, overstimulation, fatigue
Can have adverse consequences
Treat -> Time for Stabilization
Overtreating can make them sicker - which diminishes their health and makes them more susceptible for disease and sickness
What 4 classes of mechanical factors are used in disease analysis?
Osteopathic
Myopathic
Neuropathic
Visceropathic
According to Tucker, what kind of tissue is contractile?
All living tissue is contractile
What are some of the functions of areolar tissue?
Checks lymph, retards the blood, numbs the nerve terminals, prevents the easy adjustment of part to part and so causes friction
Holds the skin in position for underlying structures, acts to aid friction, close blood vessels
Changes dynamics of tissue = structure of their tissue cells
Collagen, elastin
Blood & bone are interrelated
Use and structural integrity - how much or little it is used
For the relaxation of contracted muscle, what are the 3 mechanical methods that can be used?
Repetitive rhythmic stretching
Oscillations
Stretching by passive movements of the body
According to Tucker, what tends to cause a paretic or spastic condition of blood vessels?
Heat tends to produce a paretic (suspended) condition of blood vessels
Cold will produce a spastic condition of them; and the effect on muscles is of the same kind
According to Tucker, why did Tucker stress adequate diagnosis?
Without adequate diagnosis, much can be done for a patient by stretching, passive motion and stimulation, the so-called general treatment, but this is not osteopathy. With the adequate diagnosis, some means can usually be found, even if slow and uncertain, to affect a restoration. But this is not true osteopathy. With adequate diagnosis, some means can usually be found, even if slow and uncertain, to affect a restoration. But this is not true osteopathy.
Adequte = explain it comfortably
What does Tucker mean by “no Osteopathic physician is better than his technic”?
The profession as a whole is no better than the standards that it sets in this, the practical side of its work.
