Clinically significant lung function improvement for collegiate soccer players after OMT with restrictive ribcage motion correlated with Expanded Zink screen

The Expanded Zink screen can be utilized as a screening model for the hypothesized correlating body regions to identify significant somatic dysfunction and to augment the physician's ability to detect key body regions that need OMT. Through the use of the Expanded Zink screen, we discovered an out-of-pattern rib somatic dysfunction, which may have led to what we call a "restrictive ribcage motion/dysfunction." This type of rib motion may have been the cause of the obstructive pattern on pre-OMT spirometry seen in Player 5. Once the rib was treated, the restrictive ribcage motion resolved, which allowed lung function to be restored to normal.