Key Takeaways

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• OMT involves techniques considered direct techniques, indirect techniques or both. • The major OMT techniques must be learned as the major ways an osteopath can use their unique skills to affect musculoskeletal and visceral conditions of the body. • Viscerosomatic reflexes connect aspects of the spine to abnormalities of the body’s viscera. • Chapman reflex points are anterior or posterior tenderpoints most often used in confirming a diagnosis of a visceral somatic dysfunction. • Jones CS tenderpoints are small areas of tenderness that can be treated with strain and counterstrain techniques in order to reduce the degree of tenderness. • There are multiple musculoskeletal tests an osteopath can do that can, from head to toe, define certain structural abnormalities of the different aspects of the musculoskeletal system.