- Industria: 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. ...
Systems for classifying and recording the preferred directions of fascial motion throughout the body.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Technique in which tension is taken off the attachment of the root of the mesentery to the posterior body wall. Simultaneously, the abdominal contents are compressed to enhance venous and lymphatic drainage from the bowel.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Technique in which the person voluntarily performs an osteopathic practitioner-directed motion.
Industry:Alternative therapy
Technique using forces transmitted across the diameter of the skull to accomplish sutural gapping.
Industry:Alternative therapy
That which is produced by activity, reaction and change originating in the musculoskeletal system.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The antegrade movement of substances from the nerve cell along the axon toward the terminals, and the retrograde movement from the terminals toward the nerve cell.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The application of osteopathic philosophy, structural diagnosis and use of OMT in the diagnosis and management of the patient.
Industry:Alternative therapy
The application of steady pressure to soft tissues to reduce reflex activity and produce relaxation.
Industry:Alternative therapy
