- Industry: Alternative therapy
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The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is a non-profit organization that supports the United States' colleges of osteopathic medicine and serves as a unifying voice for osteopathic medical education. Governed by its Board of Deans and led by President Stephen C. ...
The patient, with back to the examiner, is told to lift first one foot and then the other. The position and movements of the gluteal fold are watched. When standing on the affected limb the gluteal fold on the sound side falls instead of rising. Seen in poliomyelitis, un-united fracture of the femoral neck, coxa vara and congenital dislocations.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The point on the lateral surface of the sacrum where it curves medially to the body of the fifth sacral vertebrae.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The position of any one or several vertebral bodies after sidebending has occurred.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The preferred term for a complete system of medical care practiced by physicians with an unlimited license that is represented by a philosophy that combines the needs of the patient with the current practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics. Emphasizes the interrelationship between structure and function, and has an appreciation of the body’s ability to heal itself.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The range between the physiologic and anatomic barrier of motion in which passive ligamentous stretching occurs before tissue disruption.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The resultant of an action or force causing or tending to cause the two parts of the symphysis to slide relative to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact. It is usually found in an inferior/superior direction but is occasionally found to be in an anterior/posterior direction.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The sense by which muscular motion, weight, position, etc. are perceived.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The similar arrangement in form and relationships of parts around a common axis, or on each side of a plane of the body (Dorland’s).
Industry:Alternative therapy
The skillful use of the hands to diagnose and treat structural and functional abnormalities in various tissues and organs throughout the body, including bones, joints, muscles and other soft tissues as an integral part of complete medical care. 1. This term originated from the German Manuelle Medizin (manual medicine) and has been used interchangeably with the term manipulation.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The slight continuous contraction of muscle, which in skeletal muscles, aids in the maintenance of posture and in the return of blood to the heart (Dorland’s).
Industry:Alternative therapy
