Routine medical care that included bleeding, blistering, purging, and vomiting to restore the natural balance
What is Heroic Medicine?
The second tenant of osteopathic medicine
What is the body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and health maintenance?
A landmark that aligns with the spine of the scapula
What is T3?
The ability to attain a new shape after deformation.
What is plasticity?
The nerve that innervates the trapezius
What is the spinal accessory nerve?

What tribe did Andrew Still learn from
What is the Shawnee tribe?
Dr Still begins his medical career
- Learns to speak enough of the Shawnee language to interpret for his father
- On the reservation he found the Shawnee notion of God resonated w/ him - Supreme Being that permeated all of nature and brought the material and spiritual to an interrelationship. God and nature were inseparable
- Comes to have a deep respect for the Shawnee
The first step of examination
What is a static structural examination?
Motion around a vertical axis
What is transverse plane motion?
Property of fascia that allows an electric field to trigger fibroblasts to produce collagen
What is piezoelectricity?
The transverse process that is the only palpable point on this vertebra
What is the atlas (C1) ?
The year the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville MO (21 men and women in 1st class) was opened
What is 1892
Can be describes as nodular, fibrotic, boggy, etc.
What is subcutaneous tissues?
A functional limit that abnormally diminishes the normal physiologic range
What is restrictive barrier?
Storage medium of adipose tissue, passageway for lymph, nerves, and vessels
What is superficial fascia?
The ligament that limits lateral bending
What is intertransverse ligament?
The year the AOA was established
What is 1897?
The secondary spinal curves and their respective regions
What is Lordotic (posterior concavity, anterior convexity) and the Cervical/Lumbar regions?
Side-bending R/L T5-T8 normal ROM
What is 10-30 degrees?
This layer can undergo fascial remodeling.
What is deep fascia?
The route sensory input makes its way to the brain starting with the stimulus
What is stimulus, dorsal root ganglion, dorsal horn, synapse another neuron, brain?
Disease that 3 of Dr. Still's children contracted and
died from despite help from his father and brother James who had MD degree?
What is spinal meningitis?
The objective diagnostic findings of somatic dysfunction
What is tenderness
▪ Pain Scale 0-10 which is a subjective thing based on the pt’s perception
▪ Defined as pain elicited by palpation.
o Asymmetry
o Restricted motion (Regional; Intersegmental)
▪ Active ROM- movement of body parts by pt
▪ Passive ROM- movement of body part by the physician
o Tissue texture change?
The important landmarks for spinal level locations during the standing exam
What is
- C7/T1 Spinous processes
- Spine of Scapula (T3)
- Inferior angle of scapula (T7 spinous process)
- Iliac crest (~L4, but varies
- PSIS (S2 spinous process)
This helps modulate fascia function
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Has the distal attachment of ribs 9-12
What is serratus posterior inferior?