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Download Article (PDF) THE SOMATIC CONNECTION “The Somatic Connection” highlights renewed interest in manual medicine and summarizes important contribu - internationally, especially in Europe. tions to the growing body of literature To submit scientific reports for on the musculoskeletal system’s role in possible inclusion in “The Somatic health and disease. This section of Connection,” readers are encouraged JAOA—The Journal of the American to contact JAOA Associate Editor Osteopathic Association strives to chron - Michael A. Seffinger, DO (mseffinger icle the significant increase in published @westernu.edu), or Editorial Board research on manipulative methods and Member Hollis H. King, DO, PhD (hollis treatments in the United States and the [email protected]). “How much lymph can a lymph pump pump todiaphragmatic junction. Manual force was directed if a lymph pump can pump lymph?” medially and cranially to compress and then release the —Norman Gevitz, PhD 1 abdomen at a rate of about 1 compression per second. The outcome measures were lymph flow; cyto - Schander A, Downey HF, Hodge LM. Lymphatic pump manipulation mobi - kine/chemokine flux (ie, the rate of flow multiplied by lizes inflammatory mediators into lymphatic circulation. Exp Biol Med . the concentration of the cytokine or chemokine, as a way 2012;237(1):58-63. to describe the distribution of these substances in circula - tion); and the concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines As a challenge to osteopathic manipulative treatment and chemokines—including interleukin 6 (IL-6), IL-8, IL- (OMT) researchers, Norman Gevitz, PhD, has suggested 10, monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), and ker - that lymphatic pump techniques (LPTs) are high data- atinocyte chemoattractant (KC)—for both the TLD and yield applications. 1 In recent clinical trials, LPTs have MLD collections. In addition, superoxide dismutase and shown benefits for hospitalized patients with pneumonia. 2 nitrotyrosine were collected for the TLD. However, the greatest advances in demonstrating the The results showed that, as indicated in previous effects of LPT have been made in studies of animal models. studies, LPT transiently increased the flow of lymph during The breakthrough study in this field, published by Knott the active LPT procedure for both the dogs that had et al 3 in JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic catheters inserted into the TLD and the dogs that had Association in 2005, showed that lymph flow in dogs was catheters inserted into the MLD. Although there was a increased by LPT. Subsequent research in the same labo - general increase in the concentrations of cytokines and ratories, at the University of North Texas Health Science chemokines during the LPT procedure, compared with the Center in Fort Worth, has shown that LPT in dogs increases pre- and post-LPT periods, only the MCP-1 level was leukocyte count in thoracic duct lymph, 4 and that a pri - increased to a statistically significant amount in the TLD mary source of these leukocytes is gut-associated lym - dogs. In the MLD dogs, LPT was associated with a statis - phatic tissue. 5 tically significant increase in IL-8 and MCP-1. However, The study by Schander et al—the most recent publi - when cytokine/chemokine flux was measured, IL-6, IL-8, cation in this line of research—measured a number of IL-10, MCP-1, and KC were found to be increased to sta - inflammatory mediators in dogs before, during, and after tistically significant levels by LPT in both the TLD and LPT. Twelve unconscious, healthy, mongrel dogs were MLD dogs. Furthermore, in the TLD dogs, superoxide used in this study. Six of the dogs had catheters inserted dismutase and nitrotyrosine flux were increased to sta - into the thoracic lymphatic duct (TLD), and the other 6 tistically significant levels by LPT. dogs had catheters inserted into the mesenteric lymphatic As a “treatment provider” in earlier studies conducted duct (MLD). One hour after cannulation, lymph was col - at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, 4,5 lected during a 4-minute pre-LPT period, during a 4- I perceived dogs’ responses to LPT to be very much like minute LPT period, and during a 10-minute post-LPT those of humans, lending credibility to the generalizability period. The dogs were in the right lateral recumbent posi - of the animal data to the human condition. Immune system tion during LPT, and the hands of the operator (an osteo - functions in dogs and humans are similar enough to expect pathic physician) were placed bilaterally just below the cos - that, in response to LPT, levels of cytokines and chemo - 408 • JAOA • Vol 112 • No 7 • July 2012 The Somatic Connection THE SOMATIC CONNECTION kines in humans would respond similarly to the canine release (MFR) is a type of osteopathic manipulative treat - levels of cytokines and chemokines reported by Schander ment or therapy technique used to manage somatic dys - et al. However, advances in technology, such as lymphatic function in which the osteopathic physician or osteopath flow imagery, are needed to measure these types of engages the patient’s myofascial tissues with his or her responses to LPT in humans. hands using a sustained force. This force is adjusted on the The authors state, “LPT may enhance protection basis of continual palpatory feedback to achieve release of against infection by increasing mesenteric-derived inflam - tension in the myofascial tissues. Robert C. Ward, DO, matory mediators in circulation, enabling the re-distribu - and others introduced the term “myofascial release” in tion of these mediators to other tissues.” The single caveat educational settings in the early 1980s, although the tech - is that the LPT used in the Schander et al study was per - nique was based on methods pioneered by the founder of formed on healthy dogs, and the impact of LPT on dogs or osteopathic medicine, Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO. 4 For humans with identifiable disorders remains to be deter - the past 30 years, John F. Barnes, PT, and others have mined. popularized MFR among physical therapists and other For researchers who work according to the osteopathic manual therapists. 5 In this study, researchers from Spain tenet that the body is self-regulatory and self-healing, this considered not only the efficacy of MFR as taught by study, as well as the general line of research it represents, Barnes and performed by a manual therapist, but also the is an excellent example of how OMT supports this tenet. In influence of the patient attitude toward massage on pres - my own clinical practice, I have often described this line of sure pain sensitivity and immune effects in breast cancer research when treating a patient who had an infection or survivors. who was in need of immune system enhancement, as a Inclusion criteria were as follows: a diagnosis of breast way of encouraging the patient’s bodily response and cancer (stage I to stage IIIA), age of 25 to 65 years, com - receptivity to OMT, including LPT.—H.H.K. pletion of coadjuvant oncology treatment, and moderate to high fatigue during the preceding week. Patients were References excluded if they received chemotherapy or radiotherapy 1. Gevitz N. Center or periphery? the future of osteopathic principles and prac - at the time of the study. A sample size of at least 16 par - tices. J Am Osteopath Assoc . 2006;106(3):121-129. ticipants was determined on the basis of “detecting 2. Noll DR, Degenhardt BF, Morley TF, et al. Efficacy of osteopathic manipula - tion as an adjunctive treatment for hospitalized patients with pneumonia: a ran - between-sessions clinical differences of 20% on PPT [pres - domized controlled trial. Osteopath Med Prim Care . 2010;4:2. sure pain sensitivity] (with an ␣ level of .05), a desired 3. Knott EM, Tune JD, Stoll ST, Downey HF. Increased lymphatic flow in the tho - power of 80%, and an estimated interindividual coeffi - racic duct during manipulative intervention. J Am Osteopath Assoc . 2005;105 cient of variation of 20%.” (10):447-456. The researchers recruited 20 female breast cancer sur - 4. Hodge LM, King HH, Williams AG, et al. Abdominal lymphatic pump treat - vivors (mean [standard deviation] age, 49 [8] years) who ment increases leukocyte count and flux in thoracic duct lymph. Lymphat Res Biol. 2007;5(2):127-133. were at least 1 year out of coadjuvant treatment with a 5. Hodge LM, Bearden MK, Schander A, et al. Lymphatic pump treatment combination of radiation or chemotherapy or radiotherapy mobilizes leukocytes from the gut associated lymphoid tissue into lymph. after either lumpectomy (70%) or mastectomy (30%). In Lymphat Res Biol . 2010;8(2):103-110. addition, 16 women (80%) were taking estrogen receptor antagonist or aromatase inhibitor drugs; 2 (10%) were taking monoclonal antibody HER2; and 3 (15%) were Myofascial Release Therapy’s Effect on Immune taking analgesics (ibuprofen or acetaminophen). System in Breast Cancer Survivors Modulated For the treatment group, an experienced therapist by Positive Attitude administered an MFR protocol that included “longitu - dinal strokes, J stroke, sustained suboccipital pressure, Fernández-Lao C, Cantarero-Villanueva I, Díaz-Rodríguez L, Fernández-de-las- frontalis bone spread, and ear pull technique.” The 40- Peñas C, Sánchez-Salado C, Arroyo-Morales M. The influence of patient attitude toward massage on pressure pain sensitivity and immune system after application minute treatment was confined to the neck and shoulder of myofascial release in breast cancer survivors: a randomized, controlled areas, with the duration adjusted at the therapist’s dis - crossover study. J Manipulative Physiol Ther . 2012;35(2):94-100. cretion, using the participant’s tissue response. The con - trol group received a 40-minute educational session on Osteopathic manipulation has been shown to significantly healthy lifestyles, emphasizing nutrition, relaxation tech - decrease pain in several patient populations, 1 enhance the niques, or physical exercise.
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