Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine

This clinically oriented textbook provides a patient-focused approach to the diagnosis and treatment of somatic dysfunctionfunctional impairment of the musculoskeletal system and related neural and vascular elementsin the context of family medicine practice. The book explains the clinical rationale for osteopathic manipulative treatment for specific patient populations, diseases, and conditions, and details procedures for treating common problems encountered in family medicine. In this text, you'll find: An overview of the philosophy and principles of osteopathic patient careincluding patient empowerment, diagnosing somatic dysfunction, the manipulative prescription, viscerosomatic and somatovisceral reflexes, and psychoneuroimmunology OMT techniques for specific patient populationspsychiatric patients, pediatric, obstetric, and geriatric patients, athletes, surgical patients, and patients at the end of life Procedures for treating conditions commonly encountered in family practiceotitis media, temporomandibular joint pain and dysfunction, upper respiratory infection, lower respiratory tract infection, hypertension, congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal problems, thyroid disease, Parkinson disease, Larson syndrome (functional vasomotor hemiparesthesia syndrome), fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain and headache, back pain from short leg syndrome and postural imbalance, back pain from postural decompensation in the sagittal plane, and scoliosis A special section on practice issuesoffice set-up, progress notes and coding, and the standardized medical recordAmerican College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (Acofp) is the author of 'Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine', published 2006 under ISBN 9781405104753 and ISBN 1405104759.