OPP Practical 1 Flashcards
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attributed to Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)
Heroic Medicine
Benjamin Rush believed that the basis of all disease was
“physiologic tension,” particularly of the vasculature
“there is but one disease in the world” and treatment was by “depletion”
Rush: bloodletter, blistering, purging
a mercury-based cathartic that was commonly used for a variety of ailments
calomel
1864
Pivotal Year for AT Still
- personal tragedies (3 children died of spinal meningitis; infant daughter died of pneumonia; first wife died from childbirth)
- substance abuse in community (veterans addicted to alcohol/morphine)
- immersed hisself in anatomy and cadaveric dissection (grave robbing)
1874
Birth of Osteopathy
AT Still:
- “i was gradually approaching a science by study, research, and observation that would be a great benefit to the world.”
- “I flung to the breeze the banner of Osteopathy”
Four Tenets of Osteopathic Philosophy
- the body is a unit; person is a unit of mind, body, spirit
- body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, health maintenance
- structure and function are reciprocally interrelated
- rational treatment is based upon an understanding of basic principles of body unity, self-regulation, and the interrelationship of structure and function
1892
American School of Osteopathy
- chartered May in Kirksville, Missouri
1918
“Spanish Flu” Pandemic
- over 500,000 Americans died
- OMM noted to be more effective than drug therapies
1961-62
The California Merger
- CaOA merged with CMA
- COPS in LA became CaCOM (UCI)
- DOs conferred MD degrees
complete system of medical care practiced by physicians with an unlimited license
Osteopathic Medicine
Osteopathic medicine emphasizes the ___ and has an appreciation of the body’s ___
interrelationship between structure and function; ability to heal itself
concept of health care supported by expanding scientific knowledge that embraces the concept of the unity of the living organism’s structure and function
Osteopathic Principles and Practices (OPP)
function
physiology
structure
anatomy
therapeutic application of manually guided forces by a DO to improve physiologic function and/or support homeostasis that has been altered by somatic dysfunction
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT)
application of osteopathic philosophy, structural diagnosis and use of osteopathic manipulative treatment in the diagnosis and management of the patient.
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM)
site of allopathic care
disease state
site of osteopathic care
host
hand you use most
dominant hand
exercise to determine dominant hand
clasp hands together, top hand is most likely dominant
exercise to determine dominant eye
both eyes open, circle an object, close each eye, the one with the object in the circle is dominant
why should we know the dominant hand and eye?
to know the “inherent bias” to minimize diagnostic inaccuracy
how can we minimize diagnostic inaccuracy
by knowing the inherent bias of hand and eye dominance