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OMT involves techniques considered direct techniques, indirect techniques or both.
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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.
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Viscerosomatic reflexes connect aspects of the spine to abnormalities of the body’s viscera.
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Chapman reflex points are anterior or posterior tenderpoints most often used in confirming a diagnosis of a visceral somatic dysfunction.
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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.
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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.
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