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Comparing psychotic and affective disorders by musculoskeletal structural examination
J L Iwata1, J J Rodos, T Glonek
1Center for Osteopathic Research and Educational Development (C.O.R.E.D.), Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, IL 60615, USA.
Abstract:
Groups of hospitalized patients with psychotic and affective disorders (N = 60) underwent musculoskeletal structural examination. Psychotic and affective disorders each tend to affect a different portion of the musculoskeletal system, with psychotic patients exhibiting increased musculoskeletal dysfunction in the lower extremities and affective-disorders patients exhibiting increased cervical and thoracic dysfunction. At the clinical level, the structural examination may be used to correlate psychiatric disorders with dysfunctional regions of the musculoskeletal system.