title: Biological macro-idea and criterion of osteopathic fracture immobilization in China's traditional Mongolian medicine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the biological macro-idea and criterion of osteopathic fracture immobilization in China's traditional Mongolian medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on biological naturalism regarding the relationship between man and universe (including psychosomatic integration) in osteopathic fracture immobilization in China's traditional Mongolian medicine, we used modern physiopsychological and biomechanical principles and methods to investigate the biological macro-characteristics of humanization, behaviorism, and wholism in "dynamic" fixation of fractures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Osteopathic fracture immobilization in China's traditional Mongolian medicine is based on the fixation criterion of macro-idea and method as well as on geometry, mechanics, motion, and stress and psychological stability in "non-sheltered fixation" of fractures contained in the life view of nature, regarding the relationship between man and universe (including psychosomatic integration) and on harmony between the limbs and the whole body, between body and function, and between man and nature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Osteopathic fracture immobilization in China's traditional Mongolian medicine is fixation without trauma or shelter. The principle and method of whole, dynamic, and functional fixation of fractures is not only radical, but also represents a new direction for developing the principle and method of fracture immobilization.
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics Research Base of Inner Mongolian Nationalities University, Tongliao Municipality 028000, China. znml@263.net
authors.forename: Namula
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xue-En
authors.initials: XE
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D056785:Medicine, Mongolian Traditional; D010021:Osteopathic Medicine