Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine provides a patient-focused approach to the diagnosis and treatment of somatic dysfunction—functional impairment of the musculoskeletal system and related neural and vascular elements—in 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.

Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine contains:

• An overview of the philosophy and principles of osteopathic patient care—including patient empowerment, diagnosing somatic dysfunction, the manipulative prescription, viscerosomatic and somatovisceral reflexes, and psychoneuroimmunology
• OMT techniques for specific patient populations—psychiatric patients, pediatric, obstetric, and geriatric patients, athletes, surgical patients, and patients at the end of life
• Procedures for treating conditions commonly encountered in family practice—otitis 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 issues—office set-up, progress notes and coding, and the standardized medical record

Contents

Philosophy and Principles of patient Care

1. Patient empowerment
2. Osteopathic distinctiveness
3. Diagnosing somatic dysfunction
4. The manipulative prescrition
5. Viscerosomatic and somatovisceral reflexes
6. Psychoneuroimmunology

Patient Populations

7. The psychiatric patient
8. The pediatric patient
9. The female patient
10. The surgical patient
11. The athlete
12. The geriatric patient
13. The patient at the end of life

Clinical Conditions

14. The patient with otitis media
15. The patient with temporomandibular joint pain and dysfunctiion
16. The patient with an upper respiratory infection
17. The patient with a lower respiratory tract infection
18. The patient with hypertension
19. The patient with congestive heart failure
20. The patient with gastrointestinal problems
21. The patient with thyroid disease
22. The patient with Parkinson's disease
23. The patient with Larson's syndrome
24. The patient with fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome
25. The patient with chronic pain, headache
26. The patient with back pain
27. The patient with scoliosis

Practice Issues

29. The office
30. Progress notes and coding
31. The standardized medical record

Index

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