Any good resources for Fryette's Principals & Naming Somatic Dysfunction?

[PhD_to_DO]

First year student; five weeks into DOCS lab and I'm finding that Fryette's Principals and naming somatic dysfunction is not very intuitive to me. The texts that we have for DOCS lab are mainly outdated and not much help. Ditto for some of our faculty (and I wonder if some of them understand what they are teaching...) If anyone has any good resources that they can recommend, I would be most appreciative!

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[deleted1079620]

Savarese OMT Review

 

[DrStephenStrange]

OnlineMedEd

 

[joeception]

Amboss has a pretty extensive library on OMM material now including videos of many of the techniques

 

[giguerex35]

unfortunately just memorize it. if you find you always get it wrong then do the opposite. OMM naming is nonsense

 

[PhD_to_DO]

Savarese OMT Review

Thank you. I wil check this out.

 

[PhD_to_DO]

unfortunately just memorize it. if you find you always get it wrong then do the opposite. OMM naming is nonsense

That's what it feels like. Like the naming convention is the exact opposite of what would make perfect sense. SMH

 

[BoneWizard]

That's what it feels like. Like the naming convention is the exact opposite of what would make perfect sense. SMH

What always got me passing grades on our OMM exams was to just remember that the dysfunction is named for whatever motion is preferred. If the patient hurts sidebent left and is fine sidebent right, it's a right sidebending dysfunction. There are probably exceptions but I never learned them.

 

[Osminog]

Fryette's:

Somatic dysfunction naming is based on where the anatomical structure wants to go ("ease of motion"). If you want to figure out the direction in which the structure doesn't want to go ("restriction"), just reverse the somatic dysfunction name (e.g., flexed SD -> restriction in extension).

Come up with quick algorithms/shortcuts for yourself, and don't get too invested in trying to understand the details. Your time is better spent learning actual medicine.

 

[DameJulie]

Fryette's:
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Somatic dysfunction naming is based on where the anatomical structure wants to go ("ease of motion"). If you want to figure out the direction in which the structure doesn't want to go ("restriction"), just reverse the somatic dysfunction name (e.g., flexed SD -> restriction in extension).

Come up with quick algorithms/shortcuts for yourself, and don't get too invested in trying to understand the details. Your time is better spent learning actual medicine.

How do you memorize the exceptions like cervicials where they are "type 2 like", etc?

 

[PhD_to_DO]

Fryette's:
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Somatic dysfunction naming is based on where the anatomical structure wants to go ("ease of motion"). If you want to figure out the direction in which the structure doesn't want to go ("restriction"), just reverse the somatic dysfunction name (e.g., flexed SD -> restriction in extension).

Come up with quick algorithms/shortcuts for yourself, and don't get too invested in trying to understand the details. Your time is better spent learning actual medicine.

Thank you for the memory aid and the advice; OPP lab is, well, I'll just say it doesn't seem to be a good use of time. Thank's again.