- Industry: 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. ...
A procedure of high or low amplitude in which the parts are stretched or separated along a longitudinal axis with continuous or intermittent force.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A sacral somatic dysfunction described as a superior shear of one side of the sacrum resulting in a shallow (full) sacral sulcus and ipsilateral superior-anterior inferolateral angle of the sacrum.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A sacral somatic dysfunction described as an inferior shear of one side of the sacrum resulting in a deep sacral sulcus and ipsilateral inferior-posterior inferolateral angle of the sacrum.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A sacral somatic dysfunction in which the entire sacrum has moved anteriorly (forward) between the ilia. Anterior motion is freer, and the posterior motion is restricted.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A sacral somatic dysfunction in which the entire sacrum has moved posteriorly (backward) between the ilia. Posterior motion is freer, and anterior motion is restricted.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A sacral somatic dysfunction in which the sacrum has rotated about an axis approximating the longitudinal (y) axis. Motion is freer in the direction that rotation has occurred, and is restricted in the opposite direction.
Industry:Alternative therapy
A screening test that determines the side of iliosacral somatic dysfunction (motion of ilium on the sacrum).
Industry:Alternative therapy
A screening test that determines the side of sacroiliac somatic dysfunction (motion of the sacrum on the ilium).
Industry:Alternative therapy
A soft tissue technique that utilizes an intermittent force applied perpendicular to the long axis of the muscle.
Industry:Alternative therapy
