Definition of Terms related to Osteopathic Manual Medicine Techniques

The intent here is to increase the open-sourcing of OMT terminology so that newbies are better able to concentrate on technique learning.

Glossary of Osteopathic Terminology
Prepared by the Educational Council on Osteopathic Principles (ECOP) of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
(AACOM).
July 2006 Revision, ©2006 The Educational Council on Osteopathic Principles and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

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abbreviations: types of osteopathic
manipulative treatment.

ART: articulatory treatment
BLT: balanced ligamentous tension treatment
CR: osteopathy in the cranial field
CS: counterstrain treatment
D: direct treatment
DIR: direct treatment
FPR: facilitated positional release treatment
HVLA: high velocity/low amplitude treatment
I: indirect treatment
IND: indirect treatment
INR: integrated neuromusculoskeletal release treatment
LAS: ligamentous articular strain treatment
ME: muscle energy treatment
MFR: myofascial release treatment
NMM-OMM: neuromusculoskeletal medicine
OCF: osteopathy in the cranial field/cranial treatment
OMTh: osteopathic manipulative therapy (non-US terminology)
OMT: osteopathic manipulative treatment
PINS: progressive inhibition of neuromuscular structures
ST: soft tissue treatment
VIS: visceral manipulative treatment
accessory joint motions: See reference to "secondary joint motion."
accessory movements: Movements used to potentiate, accentuate, or
compensate for an impairment in a physiologic motion (e.g., the movements needed to move a paralyzed limb).

To start off the general terminology Glossary:
accommodation: A self-reversing and nonpersistent adaptation.
active motion: See motion, active.
acute somatic dysfunction: See somatic dysfunction, acute.
allopathy: 1. A therapeutic system in which a disease is treated by producing a second condition that is incompatible with or antagonistic to the first.(Stedman’s)
allopath: A term used to refer those holding a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, a non-osteopathic medical degree.
anatomical barrier: See barrier, (motion barrier)