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The Body’s Diaphragms

Ligamentous Articular Strain: Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques for the Body, Conrad A. Speece, DO; William Thomas Crow, DO; Steven L. Simmons, DO; 2001; Eastland Press. Some of the participants in the Dallas Osteopathic Study Group, that started thirty years ago and was originally under the tutelage of Rollin Becker, D.O., wrote this text on Ligamentous Articular…

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Ligamentous Articular Strain: Bootjack Technique (pg.44-45)

Ligamentous Articular Strain: Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques for the Body, Conrad A. Speece, DO; William Thomas Crow, DO; Steven L. Simmons, DO; 2001; Eastland Press. Ligamentous Articular Strain is an osteopathic manipulative technique developed by William G. Sutherland, D.O. This technique is how Dr. Sutherland was treating the areas of the body outside the core axis…

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Recognising the Fascia as a True holistic Network

Seventh and final excerpt from this essay: This essay I wrote on fascia as a Holistic Network has been presented in seven blog posts. I would be very interested in hearing from other physicians and manual medicine practitioners about your thoughts on the fascia as a holistic network. So, the fascia or the connective tissue…

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Delayed cytokine induction after repetitive motion strain

“Modeled Repetitive Motion Strain and Indirect Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques in Regulation of Human Fibroblast Proliferation and Interleukin Secretion”; Kate R. Meltzer, MS and Paul R. Standley, PhD, JAOA, Volume 107, No 12, December 2007, pp. 527-536. One more quote from this study that I outlined in last week’s blog: “Interleukins are secreted in response to…

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Modeled Repetitive Motion Strain and Indirect Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques

Research study looks into the cellular mechanisms supporting the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative techniques (OMT): “Modeled Repetitive Motion Strain and Indirect Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques in Regulation of Human Fibroblast Proliferation and Interleukin Secretion”; Kate R. Meltzer, MS and Paul R. Standley, PhD, JAOA, Volume 107, No 12, December 2007, pp. 527-536. “Although clinical studies have…

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The Still Technique for an up slipped or down slipped innominate:

The Still Technique Manual, Richard L. Van Buskirk, D.O., second edition, 2006, pg. 96-101. Up Slipped and Down Slipped innominates occur when the entire innominate shears upward or downward at the sacroiliac joint and it will affect all three poles of the SI joint. The sacroiliac joint is L-shaped with a superior branch and an…

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Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment of the Sacrum: Review and Pearl

Diagnosing and treating the sacrum can be complicated. The Mitchell Model of sacral mechanics is the primary model taught in the Osteopathic Medical schools in the United States and this model primarily discusses the motions of the sacrum in relation to the lumbar spine. The somatic dysfunctions of the Mitchell model are sacral torsions, bilateral…

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“Connective tissue: A body-wide signaling network?”

Helene M. Langevin, MD, Medical Hypotheses, Vol 66, Issue 6, 2006, 1074-1077 doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2005.12.032 “Unspecialized ‘loose’ connective tissue forms an anatomical network throughout the body. This paper presents the hypothesis that, in addition, connective tissue functions as a body-wide mechanosensitive signaling network.” “No known mechanism, however, explains how mechanical forces might be interpreted and integrated at…

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Tensegrity and Mechanoregulation: From Skeleton to Cytoskeleton

Christopher S. Chen and Donald E. Ingber, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (1999) 7, 81-94. doi:10.1053/joca.1998.1064 “In living organisms, use of a hierarchy of tensegrity networks both optimizes structural efficiency and provides a mechanism to mechanically couple the parts with the whole: mechanical stresses applied at the macroscale result in structural rearrangements…

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