Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
Failure to observe any of the precautions mentioned renders worthless
the results of investigation. Nothing further than a mere presumption
can be based upon research which fails to observe all these rules.
It will be readily understood that there are few Chiropractors
whose training has been sufficient to enable them successfully to
accomplish such research. There are thus many things connected with the
spino-organic connections which are commonly held as facts but which
should be classed as presumptions. And the prevalence of the habit of
general adjustment rather than specific makes the future final solution
of all these problems remote.
Kinds of Evidence Acceptable
It will be seen that of the three kinds of evidence--Anatomical,
Physiological, and Clinical--which are admissible in reasoning upon
the connection between the spine and disease, only one form--clinical
evidence--has been adduced by Chiropractic. For anatomical and
physiological corroboration of our apparent clinical findings we are
obliged to turn to standard works on these subjects; fortunately we
find it in abundance.
Anatomy, fortified now by research in the morphologic relations of the
parts studied and by physiological and pathological experiment which
has thrown much light on the proper viewpoints from which to describe
structure, contains sufficient data on the nervous system to enable us
to explain practically every fact observable in a Chiropractic clinic.
It is true that there are a few statements in the ensuing outlines for
which we cannot as yet find the anatomical or physiological proof. But
it must be remembered that anatomists and physiologists have never
studied the body with a knowledge of the subluxation theory to aid them
in gaining perspective and that Chiropractors, as a class, have not
yet delved deeply enough into anatomy and physiology to extract all the
available and illuminating information from them. Ofttimes the facts we
value most are most obscure in the texts because to others they seem
least important. But they are there. Armed with information concerning
Chiropractic facts it is probable that the scientist of the future will
corroborate all of our clinical findings of today and emphasize the
rational explanations of them.
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