OMM_BLT Flashcards
(28 cards)
“To make the sick well is not the duty of the operator, but to adjust a part of the whole of the system in order that the rivers of life may flow in and irrigate the famishing fields”
A.T. Still, Autobiography
Treat the [____], not the disease
patient
No two patients with the same disease present the same way. No patient with the same disease presents the same way on different visits.
A.L. Wales, DO
“If you understand the mechanism, the treatment is simple”
W. G. Sutherland
“I could teach a chimpanzee to treat!
The job of the physician is to make the diagnosis.”
STAN SCHIOWITZ, DO
Diagnosis and [____] are inseparable.
treatment
Place your attention on the patients [____] to your treatment, not on what you are doing.
Response
It is important to remain in a [______] state during treatment
Perceptive
“It is my object in this work to teach principles as I understand them, and not rules. I do not instruct the student to punch or pull a certain bone, nerve or muscle for a certain disease, but by a knowledge of the normal and abnormal, give a specific knowledge for all diseases.”
A.T. Still, Philosophy of Osteopathy
Dr. Sutherland used the principle of [____________] Tension as his approach to treatment in the cranium and the body. His technique includes both {___}&{___} methods
Balanced membraneous and ligamentous Tension
direct and indirect
There is a relatively high concentration of joint “__________” compared to the tendons.
golgi tendon organs
Nociceptor reflexes are intimately involved in the physiology of [______]. Positioning an articulation at a point of BLT will immediately reduce the firing of these joint [______]
somatic dysfunction
nociceptors
Local circulation, venous and lymphatic as well as arterial will improve as tissues are brought to a point of [___]
BLT/BMT
Venous and lymphatic circulation is more sensitive to tissue pressure than [__].
arterial
Local articular venous drainage will also be impaired by [_______]. This drainage will also improve when an articulation is brought to a point of BLT. There may be a [_____]sense of decongestion during the treatment process and correction.
Ligamentous strain
Palpable
The goal of treatment is to improve the [____] of all the fluids of the body across all tissue interfaces.
interchange
“the point in the range of motion of an articulation where the ligaments and membranes are poised between the normal tension present throughout the free range of motion and the increased tension preceding the strain…”
The point of Balanced ligamentous/membraneous tension definition
indirect approach BLT
Box with one strap laxed and one strap tight; close the box lid to make the laxity even
direct approach BLT
Box with one REALLY tight strap (ligament); further open the box on the opposite side to match the tension (into the barrier); the force makes the correction
Exaggeration
Most commonly used but not before sutural formation at 5-6 years of age
not in acute condition
takes advantage of natural recoil in tissue
Direct action
acute trauma
Children
intelligently retrace the path of lesion within range of free motion BMT
Disengagement
Trauma
used in conjunction with the above
especially at bevel changes - bones
maintains balance tensions
Opposite Physiologic Motion
where physiologic pattern has been severely violated - trauma
one part toward physiologic position (direct) and the other away (indirect)
balance tension and allow powers within the patient and knowledge to TX
Molding
used to help reshape children (self correcting or with help)
constant response of the bone to the stress
set up in the membrane by fluid
use fluid to disengage periphery and strain
bone and ?membrane
