Osteopathic Palpation of the Heart

The relation of experience in osteopathic palpation and object identification

BACKGROUND To determine whether osteopathic medical students, fellows, residents, and practicing physicians differ in their ability to identify inanimate objects and if these skills relate to palpatory experience. METHODS Fifteen commonly known objects were fixed to a board and blinded with a cotton cloth. In Part I of testing, participants were asked to identify 9 objects, with choices provi...

Assessing palpation thresholds of osteopathic medical students using static models of the lumbar spine.

CONTEXT Although spinal somatic dysfunction diagnosis is taught at all colleges of osteopathic medicine, few objective measures have been used to evaluate student accuracy. OBJECTIVE To assess the palpatory skills of osteopathic medical students in evaluating positional asymmetry in the transverse plane using static block transverse process and lumbar spine models. METHODS For this observat...

Auscultation of the Heart, with Notes on Observation and Palpation

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Scientific letter: self-pulse palpation increases heart rhythm regularity.

The destiny of the osteopathic profession: the osteopathic difference.

Introduction to special reprints This month, two addresses given before annual conventions of the American Osteopathic Association are reprinted. The first was delivered by W.B. Meacham, DO, in 1916 and the second by Donald Siehl, DO, in 1983. Both addresses spoke to the same theme, the destiny of the osteopathic medical profession, but the perspectives were very different. In 1916, the profess...