Dr J. M. Littlejohn Lectures on the Fundamentals of Osteopathic Technique

An excerpt from Dr J.M Littlejohn Fundamentals of Osteopathic Technique discusses the Osteopathic Lesion: “A lesion is a maladjustment in any field that perverts physiology. The structural, or anatomical lesion results in a precession of attachments: the intraosseous lesion involving, two or more bones, interferes with the attachment of the soft tissues, and the intervertebral lesion is the one that is sufficient to disturb the issuing nerves. A primary lesion produces mechanically a physiological imbalance without reference to the extent to which the imbalance is found within the body. A secondary lesion is one which maintains the existence of perverted functioning.”

In his Fundamentals of Osteopathic Technique Dr J.M Littlejohn concludes: “The principle to be laid down in dealing with these structural lesions is to first attack the secondary lesion and then deal with the primary lesion. The bones are our primary objective because these form the fundamental framework to which all structures are attached”

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