Thesis (M.Ost.)--Unitec New Zealand, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).

BACKGROUND: Bariatric surgery is an effective weight loss treatment modality for people with morbid obesity, however, there may be a negative impact on postoperative bone health. This review summarizes changes of different bone mineral density dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry measurements, with specific attention to the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and the roux-en-y gastric bypass. METHODS: PubMed and the Cochrane Library searches yielded 156 articles published before November 2017. The articles were evaluated based on the following inclusion criteria: focus on laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or roux-en-y gastric bypass and bone health, written in English, full-length article, studied participants for one-to-two years, and included statistical measurements. RESULTS: Of the 156 studies that were initially screened, 16 full-length articles were included in the final analysis. The articles described a lower loss of bone density at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, forearm, and total hip after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy when compared to roux-en-y gastric bypass, however, these studies lack statistical power due to the small sample sizes of less than 10 participants. CONCLUSION: The number of bariatric surgeries continues to increase worldwide, however, the literature provides limited studies that evaluate the effects of bariatric surgery on bone health, more than two-years postoperative. Further study is necessary to determine the mechanisms of bone loss after bariatric surgery, with great attention to differences in bone health between sexes.

abstract: Objective: Examine cardiovascular response to OMT via central and peripheral measurements. Methods: Central and peripheral cardiovascular signals of asymptomatic human subjects were monitored during a procedure with alternating rest and active phases. Active phases included systemic perturbations and application of controlled vertebral pressure (OMT) by an experienced osteopathic physician. Pulse plethysmograph and laser Doppler flow sensors measured peripheral flow from index and middle fingers bilaterally. A three-lead EKG monitored cardiac activity. The biosignals were recorded continuously, in real time, and analyzed in time and frequency domains. Results from the control group (n=11), without OMT, and active group (n=16), with OMT, were compared. Peripheral (n=5) and central responders (n=6), subsets of the active group showing stronger peripheral or central response, were examined. In an additional effort, a modified clinical device recorded spectral Doppler ultrasound signals of the radial and dorsalis pedis arteries of clinically asymptomatic human subjects. Controlled physiologic provocations (limb occlusion and elevation), were performed. Time domain and spectral analyses were completed. Results: In the human subject study, the time wave characteristics and spectral analysis resulted in similar trends. Peripheral blood flow attenuated in the control group over time, while it was maintained in the active group, and increased specifically during OMT in the responder groups. Heart rate remained around 65 BPM in the control group, fluctuated between 64-68 BPM in the active group, and dropped 4 and 3 BPM in the peripheral and central responder groups, respectively. The effect in the OMT group was statistically significant compared to no-OMT, however, was not statistically significant within-groups. For the preliminary spectral ultrasound Doppler study, segmental flow was successfully monitored. A prototype "Quick Assessment" tool was developed, providing instant post-processing results for clinical use. Conclusions: OMT along the vertebral column may influence autonomic processes that regulate heart rate and peripheral vascular flow. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Bioengineering 2014

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A Cefaleia Tipo Tensional Crônica é uma das formas mais comuns de cefaleia primária. Aproximadamente 90% da população mundial experimentaram ou vão experimentar alguma forma desse mal no decorrer da vida, o que lhes pode ocasionar desfavoráveis mudanças físicas, psicológicas e sociais. Na atualidade, a doença vem sendo discutida pelos profissionais da fisioterapia a partir das próprias vivências do sujeito de maneira a dar um maior valor ao trabalho humanizado, permitindo ampliar as perspectivas de tratamento. Portanto, o presente estudo visa compreender o significado da vivência dos pacientes com CTTC em terapia osteopática. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de caráter qualitativa exploratória com base na análise fenomenológica proposta por Husserl e interpretada por Bello, cujo propósito é compreender o ser humano na sua totalidade, nas dimensões física, psíquica e espiritual. As entrevistas foram realizadas no período de novembro de 2012 a fevereiro de 2013, no hospital de Boa Vista; participaram oito pacientes diagnosticados com CTTC, na faixa etária de 20 a 60 anos. Desse grupo, foram utilizadas duas entrevistas narrativas para a análise do material discursivo: a primeira antes, e a segunda após o tratamento osteopático. Os resultados permitiram estabelecer cinco núcleos tipológicos: Corpo e Medicalização, atos de julgamento e escolha terapêutica, Atos perceptivos sobre as limitações no trabalho frente à CTTC, Relações interpessoais e rede de apoio, A experiência logo após o atendimento osteopático inicial para a CTTC. Os resultados estudados nos pacientes com CTTC mostraram apreensão, insegurança com os efeitos colaterais dos medicamentos e aguçada percepção corpórea. Além disso, percebeu-se que os pacientes desenvolveram estratégias peculiares de enfrentamento da dor de cabeça, tais como: recolher-se a um ambiente, com ausência de luminosidade, e som após resfriar-se seja em um banho ou utilizando compressas na nuca ou cabeça, com o objetivo de poder dormir melhor, como também percebem que, após o atendimento osteopático, melhoraram nos sintomas de dor, humor, fadiga, recuperação das capacidades físicas e cognitivas e alívio da tensão muscular. / The Chronic Tension Type Headache is one of the most common forms of primary headache. Approximately 90% of the world population have experienced or will experience some form of this illness later in life, whatever they may cause adverse physical, psychological and social. At present, the disease has been discussed by practitioners of physical therapy from their own experiences of the subject in order to give greater value to the humanizing work, allowing broaden perspectives treatment. Therefore, this study aims to understand the meaning of the experience of patients with chronic TTH in osteopathic therapy. This is an exploratory qualitative research study based on the phenomenological analysis proposed by Husserl and played by Bello, whose purpose is to understand the human being in its entirety, in the physical, mental and spiritual. The interviews were conducted from November 2012 to February 2013, in the hospital of Boa Vista; attended eight patients diagnosed with chronic TTH, aged 20-60 years. Of this group, two narrative interviews were used for the analysis of discursive material, the first before and the second after the osteopathic treatment. The results allowed the five central typological: Body and medicalization, acts of judgment and choice of therapy, Acts perceptive about the limitations on the work front CTTC, interpersonal relationships and support network, experience soon after the initial osteopathic care for CTTC. The outcomes in patients with chronic TTH showed apprehension, uncertainty about the side effects of medicines and keen insight body. Moreover, it was noticed that patients developed strategies for coping with the peculiar headache, such as retreat to an environment, with the absence of light and sound after it cooled either in a bath or compresses using the neck or head, in order to be able to sleep better, but also realize that after the osteopathic care, improved symptoms of pain, mood, fatigue, recovery of physical and cognitive abilities and relieve muscle tension.

Osteopathic physician (D.O.) residency programs that do not achieve accreditation under the new Single Accreditation System (SAS) standards by June 30, 2020 will lose access to their share of more than $9,000,000,000 of public tax dollars. This U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) funding helps sponsoring institutions cover direct and indirect resident physician training expenses. A significant financial burden would then be shifted to marginal costs of the residency program’s sponsoring institution in the absence of CMS funding. The sponsoring institution’s ability or willingness to bare these costs occurs during a time when hospital operating margins are at historic lows (Advisory.com /Daily Briefing /May 18, 2017 | The Daily Briefing / Hospital profit margins declined from 2015 to 2016, Moody's finds). Loss of access to CMS funding may result in potentially cataclysmic reductions in the production and availability of primary care physicians for rural and urban underserved populations. Which osteopathic residency programs will be able to survive the new accreditation requirement changes by the 2020 deadline? What are some of the defining attributes of those programs that already have achieved “initial accreditation” under the new SAS requirements? How can the osteopathic programs in the process of seeking the new accreditation more effectively “pivot” by learning from those programs that have succeeded? What are the potential implications of SAS to both access and quality of health care to millions of Americans? This report is based upon a study that examined and measured how osteopathic physician residency programs in the U.S. are accommodating the substantive structural, financial, political and clinical requirements approximately half way through a five-year adaptation period. In 2014, US Graduate Medical Education (GME) physician program accreditation systems formally agreed to operate under a single accreditation system for all osteopathic (D.O) and allopathic (M.D.) programs in the U.S. Since July 1, 2015, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) accredited training programs have been eligible to apply for Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accreditation. This agreement to create a Single Accreditation System (SAS) was consummated among the AOA, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) and ACGME with a memorandum of understanding. As this research is published, the ACGME is transitioning to be the single accreditor for all US GME programs by June 30, 2020. At that time, the AOA would fully relinquish all its GME program accreditation responsibilities. The new SAS operates under published ACGME guidelines and governance. Business policy and health care resource allocation question motivated this research. Failure of osteopathic programs to “pivot” to the new standards could result in fewer licensed physicians being produced in the high demand primary care field. Potential workforce shortage areas include urban and especially rural populations (CRS Report 7-5700 R44376 Feb 12, 2016). Large physician shortages already have been projected to care for a rapidly aging US population without considering the impact of the GME accreditation changes currently underway (Association of American Medical Colleges 2017 Key Findings report www.aamc.org/2017projections). The goal of this research is to provide osteopathic GME programs practical insights into characteristics of a sample of osteopathic GME programs that have successfully made the “pivot” into SAS requirements and been accredited by ACGME and those that have not. The study seeks to better understand the experiences, decisions, challenges and expectations directly from osteopathic programs directors as they strive to meet the realities of the new SAS requirements. Do programs that are already accredited differ significantly from those that have not? How do characteristics such as program size, geographic locations, clinical program components, program sponsor structure, number and experience of faculty and administration, cost planning and perceived benefits of the movement to SAS factor into successfully meeting the new requirements before the 2020 closing date? A cross-sectional research survey was designed, tested and deployed to a national sample of currently serving osteopathic GME program directors. The survey elicited data about each program’s “pivot” from AOA GME accreditation practices and guidelines to the new Single Accreditation System (SAS). The survey instrument was designed to obtain information about patterns in osteopathic GME program curricula, administrative support functions, faculty training, compliance requirements and program director characteristics shared by those programs that have been granted “initial accreditation” by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) who administer SAS. Thirty five (35) osteopathic GME program directors responded to the 26 question survey in June 2017. Descriptive statistics were applied and central tendency measures determined. The majority of survey respondents were Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.s) from specialty residency programs sponsoring an average of 16 residents. Respondents were mostly non-profit, urban, multi-facility health system locations with an existing affiliation with a research college or university. About half of the programs had completed some form of fiscal due diligence related to the potential cost impact of SAS. None of those surveyed reported utilizing outside consultants to assist in the SAS “pivot” process. Most programs plan to keep the same number of residents while others expressed an interest in expanding or contracting. None of the respondents planned to close their program. The dichotomous dependent variable (DV) was whether or not the Osteopathic GME program had “achieved or not yet achieved initial SAS accreditation” at the time of the survey. A cross tabulation analysis of the DV with potential predictive variables (IV) was conducted and Chi-square and various exact significance tests were applied to gage goodness of fit. Results were grouped into categories that aligned with the five research questions and hypotheses. Several characteristics were shared by those programs that achieved SAS. GME sponsor institutions that currently have dually accredited programs by the AOA and ACGME seemed to be at a distinct advantage. Although they represented a smaller number of total survey respondents (20%), all primary care program participants reported SAS achievement. Directors reported an average of six (6) full-time paid faculty members teaching in their programs and twice that number of preceptor volunteers in the total sample. Realization of any operational cost savings or efficiencies as a result of moving to a single accreditation system was a principle concern for the majority (86%) of GME program director respondents, regardless of current accreditation status, although most felt SAS would result in offering medical student graduates access to all accredited US GME residency and fellowships programs.

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) has been used for more than 100 years to enhance the physiologic process of labor and delivery by normalizing pelvic structures and providing adequate blood supply to the uterus. Since maternal morbidity and mortality is a major health concern for developing countries, it was desirable to explore the benefits of OMT. After IRB approval by the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine and Virginia Tech, the research was conducted in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic at Hospital Maternidad Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia to determine the relationship of OMT during labor and delivery on rates of cesarean section and perineal lacerations/ episiotomies. Qualifying candidates received the next sequentially numbered envelope with a randomized number assigning her to either the treatment or control group. Staff physicians at the hospital provided care to women in the control group according to their standard protocol. Four Osteopathic Physicians and one pre-doctoral OMM fellow performed OMT on women during the first and second stages of labor and performed their deliveries. There were 33 parturients in the OMT Treatment group and 32 in the control, for a total of 65 in the trial. The results of a logistic regression analysis using Wald criterion, with a statistical significance of alpha = 0.05, indicated treatment group reduction of rates of episiotomies in the primiparous (P = .04) and marginal significance in the combined primiparous and multiparous population (P = .05). The percentage of episiotomies in the primiparous treatment group was 35.29% and 75% in the control group. The percentage of episiotomies in the combined primiparous and multiparous groups were 15.15% in the treatment group and 37.5% in the control group. The cesarean rate for the treatment group was 9.09% and 18.75% for the control group (P = 0.098). The percentages of grade I & II perineal lacerations were 15.15% for the treatment group and 12.5% for the control group (P = 0.55) due to the extensive use of episiotomies in the control group. There were composite calculations made of the total number of parturients who had either a cesarean section, an episiotomy, or a perineal laceration so that overall maternal morbidity in each group could be compared. In the combined groups, there were fourteen total parturients (42.42%) who had undergone one of the three outcomes measures in the treatment group and twenty-one (65.63%) in the control group. This brings an odds ratio of 0.200 and a significant P value of 0.0235. Though cross-cultural issues made it difficult to perform the research as originally intended, there is evidence that Osteopathic Obstetrics provides benefit to parturients. A multi-institutional randomized controlled trial is proposed as the next step for the evaluation of OMT during labor and delivery. / Ph. D.

Ce travail de thèse porte sur des études de la cinématique 3D de la colonne cervicale in vivo chez des sujets asymptomatiques (N=30); il se divise en quatre parties. La colonne cervicale de tous les sujets est reconstruite en 3D à partir des images de tomodensitométrie dans différentes positions :position neutre, rotation axiale gauche et droite et lors du positionnement pré-manipulatif de la tête.<p>La première partie de ce travail a comme objectif fondamental de déterminer la cinématique 3D inter-segmentaire de la colonne cervicale, lors de la rotation axiale maximale de la tête. Les valeurs déterminées pour tous les paramètres cinématiques 3D vont nous servir comme base de données de référence.<p>Dans la deuxième partie, nous souhaitons contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du rôle des ligaments alaires lors de la rotation axiale. Pour cela, nous avons déterminé la cinématique 3D de l’os occipital par rapport à l’axis. Même s’il est inhabituel d’ignorer l’atlas, il nous a semblé plus juste de considérer les segments osseux qui livrent les principales insertions des ligaments alaires. La biomécanique de ces ligaments dépend des mouvements de l’os occipital par rapport à l’axis.<p>La troisième partie est orientée vers l’objectif principal de la thèse qui vise à déterminer les amplitudes articulaires inter-segmentaires lors de la position pré-manipulative de la colonne cervicale. Cette étude va nous permettre de comparer les amplitudes atteintes lors de la mise en position pré-manipulative avec celles des mouvements physiologiques.<p>La dernière partie a pour objectif principal de déterminer la longueur du trajet de l’artère vertébrale en position neutre, et ensuite de comparer la variation de longueur du trajet de l’artère vertébrale entre la position en rotation axiale maximale de la tête d’une part, et la position pré-manipulative d’autre part, donc lors de l’application d’une technique manipulative à composantes multiples telle qu’utilisée régulièrement en ostéopathie.<p>En comparant la position pré-manipulative à la rotation physiologique, les résultats les plus importants de ce travail sont :(1) les amplitudes segmentaires sont inférieures pour la position pré-manipulative et (2) l’artère vertébrale est moins allongée lors de cette mise en position que lors de la rotation physiologique. Ces deux faits, jusque-là inédits, sont importants en clinique ostéopathique courante et montrent l’importance d’un choix judicieux de la technique manipulative et de son exécution.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences de la motricité / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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La thèse retrace l'histoire de la médecine ostéopathique aux Etats-Unis, en Grande-bretagne en France et en Belgique. Partant de sa création par Andrew Taylor Still au XIXe siècle dans le middle-west, on suit d'abord son évolution conceptuelle et académique avant de s'intéresser à son institutionnalisation. Les fondements métaphysiques et transcendantaux de cette médecine manuelle sont mis en perspectives par rapport aux connaissances de l'époque tant aux Etats-Unis qu'en Europe. Nous suivons ensuite son passage sur le vieux continent via l'Angleterre et la France avant d'aborder son développement en Belgique ainsi que son entrée à l'Institut des Sciences de la Motricité de l'U.L.B.<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p> / Doctorat en Philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished