Soft tissue techniques

Myofascial techniques are a group of specific maneuvers that are directed toward the soft tissues of the body, particularly the muscles and fasciae. For this reason, they are also referred to as soft tissue techniques. These can be used as the primary modality of treatment or in combination with or preparation for other methods. 

To achieve the best resirlts with as little discomfort as possible, the sirrroimding soft tissues should be relaxed before the thrusting force is applied. Myofascial (soft tissue) techniques or other nonthmsting techniques are used for this purpose. When the muscles and soft tissues are... 

Ehrenfeuchter WC. Soft tissue techniques. In WardRC, ed. Foundations for Osteopadiic Medicine. Baltimore Wil-... 

Alyssa was treated with gentle soft tissue techniques and muscle energy techniques at the first visit. Counterstrain was used on a tender point found at C3 on the left. The mother was shown how to gently stretch the neek into side bending to the left and was instrueted to do this several times during the day. On eaeh return visit, Alyssa showed gradual improvement. There was no evidence of contracture of any muscles, which could have led to permanent disability. 

The soft tissue techniques described in this chapter are good general techniques for relaxing and stretching the muscles of the thoracic and shoulder girdle. They may be used as the only treatment for a soft tissue hypertonicity and tension or to prepare the tissues for other types of osteopathic manipulative techniques. 

This chapter describes the application of passive, active direct, and active indirect myofascial or soft tissue techniques to the lumbar region. These techniques may be used as the main part of the treatment or in preparation for the use of other osteopathic techniques,... 

He was seen 1 week later and reported that beginning the day after the first treatment, he had had no further symptoms in his right arm and had cancelled the surgery. He was treated at lhat visit for some remaining hypertonlclly of the muscle with soft tissue techniques. Although the first rib had better motion, it still was resistant to springing and so was treated a second time. 

Mrs. R. was admitted to labor and delivery and a normal spontaneous vaginal delivery was anticipated. Her first stage of labor was uneventful. She refused epidural anesthesia and reached full dilatation 4 hours after admission. During this phase of labor, her muscular back pain was treated with gentle myofascial stretching techniques. In general, obstetric patients in active labor tolerate these types of soft tissue techniques. However, as labor pain intensifies, patients may be unable to bear any manipulative treatment. This patient expressed relief of her muscular back pain but was unable to endure treatment of the sacrum and iliopsoas because of labor pain. 

Finite-element techniques can cope with large, highly non-linear deformations, making it possible to model soft tissues such as skin. When relatively large areas of skin are replaced during plastic surgery, there is a problem that excessive distortion of the apphed skin will prevent adequate adhesion. Finite-element models can be used to determine, either by rapid trial-and-error modelhng or by mathematical optimisation, the best way of... 

Nga ME, Lim G-L, Barbro N, et al. Successful retrieval of fine-needle aspiration biopsy material from previously stained smears for immunocytochemistry a novel technique applied to three soft tissue tumors. Mod. Pathol. 2005 18 728-732. 

Prompt diagnosis of intra-abdominal infections or of abscess formation elsewhere in the body by liberal use of ultrasound and other imaging techniques should lead to subsequent surgical treatment without delay. Soft tissue infections (superficial and deep) can have a dramatic clinical course. Timely diagnostic imaging and surgical treatment will equally reduce morbidity and mortality. 

The fetuses are then examined. Full details of fetal examination are provided in other chapters of this book some techniques are performed on fresh fetuses, while other techniques require prior fixation of the fetuses. For rodents, one half of the fetuses in each litter should be examined for soft tissue (visceral) changes the remainder should be examined for skeletal changes. Rabbit fetuses should be examined for both soft tissue and skeletal abnormalities the heads from half of the fetuses should be examined by serial sectioning, with skeletal examination conducted on the remainder of the fetus. 

The Redbook recommends the Wilson serial section technique (see Chapter 19) for soft tissue examination, but microdissection techniques are equally applicable (see Chapter 20). 

The remaining fetuses are submitted to fresh soft tissue examination or preserved for fixed visceral examination (see Note 2). Various techniques are available typically based on Wilson s sections of the head and body or Wilson s sections of the head only with microdissection of the body. The techniques used for the preparation and examination of the fetuses are described in Chapters 16-21. 

This technique is required for any embryo-fetal developmental toxicity in the rat, mouse, rabbit, or minipig. Caesarean sections are performed on dams before birth. Fetuses are removed and examined externally. Further examinations are then performed to examine internal soft tissues (see Chapters 19 and 20) and skeleton. Fetuses intended for skeletal examinations are eviscerated and the carcasses are fixed. The Alizarin Red S staining process requires several days. The meticulous examination involves the examination of each fetal in a specific order starting from the head to the tail, with the fetus in ventral and dorsal positions. 

Since the early 2000s, noninvasive techniques such as micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) have been increasingly employed to aid in the simultaneous visualization of skeletal and soft tissues. Additionally, the ability to digitize images for mathematical analysis of data sets has progressed to the point where it appears likely that standard methods for visualization and evaluation are about to change. 

For common preclinical laboratory specimens such as mouse and rat, it is possible to image the skeletal features associated with different developmental stages of serial end-point harvested specimens (Fig. 1). Additionally, with the use of radio-opaque contrast agents, it is possible to image capture the soft tissue features of these specimens (Fig. 2). The combined imaging can be used to illustrate various anatomical features of interest within the same specimen (Fig. 3). This imaging technique therefore has an added potential of conferring multi-modality to an individual micro-CT machine. 

Staples RE (1993) Staples technique for evaluation of fetal soft tissue course presented for Center for Professional Advancement. New Brunswick, Cape May, pp 12-14... 

Key words Serial sectioning, Fetal soft tissue, Bouin s, Wilson technique. Examination, Abnormalities... 

This technique facilitates soft tissue examination by serial sectioning (Modified Wilson technique (3)), as it is performed on preserved whole rat and mouse fetuses/rabbit heads (see Note 1). During the assessment all fetuses are examined both externally and internally. The principal. Definition main/primary of the procedure is to be able to distinguish between what is normal and abnormal, both structurally and developmentally, according to the stage of gestation. 

Guideline.pdf, 2005), microdissection techniques allow a thorough and relatively rapid examination of fetuses for soft tissue abnormalities. 

P MRS in several human cancers, including non-Hodgkin s lymphoma (NHL), sarcomas of soft tissue and bone, breast cancer, and head and neck cancerInitially, they showed basic technique reproducibility in vitro and for quadriceps muscle in volunteers across participating institutions. Spectral quality and reproducibility varied among the different cancers. Later, they demonstrated that a reproducible measure of PME normalized to nucleoside-triphosphate resonances could be obtained for a select group of matched patients with NHL. ... 

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