Orenstein • Special Communication B in Lee County, Virginia, in 1828, Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO, witnessed the ravages of many of the infectious diseases prevalent in 19th-century America while traveling the country as a boy with his father, who was both a physician and a Methodist minister. At the time, the practice of medicine was a cottage industry with few proven treatments. Therapies oft...

CONTEXT Case reports and clinical trials have indicated that osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) may improve motor function and quality of life for children with cerebral palsy. OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of osteopathy in the cranial field, myofascial release, or both versus acupuncture in children with moderate to severe spastic cerebral palsy, as measured by several outcomes...

BACKGROUND According to the original model of cranial osteopathy, intrinsic rhythmic movements of the human brain cause rhythmic fluctuations of cerebrospinal fluid and specific relational changes among dural membranes, cranial bones, and the sacrum. Practitioners believe they can palpably modify parameters of this mechanism to a patient's health advantage. DISCUSSION This treatment regime la...

Abstract 
 Introduction: Malignant neoplasms of bone originating from the supporting tissues body mesinchymal origin are heterogeneous in clinical and histological terms. In most cases, etiology these tumors is unknown. Histologically, sarcomas classified into three main types. Chondrosarcoma (31% sarcomas), osteosarcoma - tissue (also accounts for 31% Ewing sarcoma neuroectodermal (accoun...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiovascular disease, which is caused by a multitude of mutations in genes encoding proteins of the cardiac sarcomere (1). Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHCM) is an uncommon type of HCM. The sudden cardiac death is less likely to occur in the patients inflicted with AHCM (2). Herein, we presented the case of a 29-year-old man ...