Hazzard Chapter 4 Flashcards
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Holding or pressing gently but continuously against a contracture, while the head is being slowly moved about, will relieve the ?
Tension and remove the lesion.
What is releaved, by springing the mouth open against resistance?
The ligaments of the temporo-maxillary articulations
Muscles and blood-vessels below the inferior maxillary bone
How are the ligaments of the temporo-maxillary articulations may be sprung by ?
Thrusting a finger deeply into each glenoid fossa after the patient has opened his mouth, holding them there while the mouth is shut.
Pressure may be in some measure applied to the __________ nerves by deeply pressing the finger upward and inward behind the angle of the jaw, in the direction of the jugular foramen.
Pneumogastric, glosso-pharyngeal and spinal-accessory
What may be manipulated by deep pressure behind the anterior border of the sterno-mastoid muscle?
Pneumogastric nerve
In lesion of the atlas the patient lies supine and the practitioner, standing at the head of the table, holds the head between the hands, with a thumb or finger upon each ______ The head is now moved in a direction to ????
TVP
Exaggerate the lesion, and with traction, rotation, and pressure upon the processes, the atlas is forced toward its position
How does Dr. Still set the atlas?
He stands in front of the patient, who is sitting, and clasps his hands behind the neck, just below the skull, pressing the pisiform bones firmly against the lateral arches of the atlas.
The axis is generally displaced ?
Laterally
The tissues upon the Axis’s transverse and articular processes are quite tender and contractures are found in the muscles about it. How is it restored?
Exaggeration of lesion, rotation and pressure usually restore it to place.
What will a “spiral” treat?
Loosening of all cervical tissues
Flexing the head strongly upon the thorax stretches the ?
ligamentum nuchae and posterior tissues of the neck.
