- Branża: 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. ...
Two adjacent vertebrae with their associated intervertebral disk, arthrodial, ligamentous, muscular, vascular, lymphatic and neural elements.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Voluntary movement by the patient (on instruction from the osteopathic practitioner) to assist in the palpatory diagnosis and treatment process.
Industry:Alternative therapy
When a painful stimulus is applied to a body part of low sensitivity (e.g., viscus) that is in close central connection with a point of higher sensitivity (e.g., soma), the pain is felt at the point of higher sensitivity rather than at the point where the stimulus was applied.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Within the context of structural diagnosis, the pelvis is made up of the right and left innominates, (hip bone or os coxae) the sacrum and coccyx.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A low velocity/ moderate amplitude technique where the restrictive barrier is engaged repeatedly to produce an increased freedom of motion.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A positional descriptor used to identify the side of reference when rotation of a vertebra has occurred; in a condition of right rotation, the left side is the anterior component; usually refers to the less prominent transverse process;
Industry:Alternative therapy
A positional descriptor used to identify the side of reference when rotation of a vertebral segment has occurred. In a condition of right rotation, the right side is the posterior component. It usually refers to a prominent vertebral transverse process.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A resistance or impediment to movement. For joint restriction,
Industry:Alternative therapy
