Clinical Anatomy Update: Breaking Autonomic NS Dogma

I want to summarize this paper:

Espinosa-Medina, I., Saha, O., Boismoreau, F., Chettouh, Z., Rossi, F., Richardson, W. D., & Brunet, J.-F. (2016). The sacral autonomic outflow is sympathetic. Science (New York, NY), 354(6314), 893–897. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aah5454

This is a big deal to anatomists and in this point I want to evaluate whether practicing clinicians need to consider this finding and if present DPT students should be taught this break in autonomic dogma.

Post outline:

  1. Introduce the paper briefly
    1. Background
      1. How autonomics are presently taught
    2. Methods, explain techniques used
    3. Results, key figures
    4. Conclusions, findings and whether data support them
  2. What this means for PT practice
  3. What this means for PT education

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