Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
_Trigeminal Nerve_: This is the great sensor nerve of the face and
carries a motor division, the inferior maxillary, to some of the
muscles of mastication, as the temporal, masseter, and buccinator. It
has connected with it four ganglia, which also receive sympathetic
roots, and the ganglion of origin of its sensor axons, the Gasserian
or semilunar, also receives direct sympathetic communications. The
importance of this communication is shown by the powerful effect of
adjustment of third or fourth Cervical for tic dolouroux.
_Ear_: The external ear receives branches from the vagus and from
the first and second cervical nerves. The middle ear and Eustachian
tube are supplied by the tympanic plexus made up of branches from
the glosso-pharyngeal, otic ganglion, facial nerve and the small
deep petrosal from the sympathetic on the carotid artery. By all
these routes communication from the third and fourth cervicals is
possible but especially is the latter important. The fourth cervical
is the especially frequent subluxation with middle ear disease. To
the internal ear and auditory or acoustic nerve there appears to be
no direct route from the spine. It has not yet been conclusively
established within the writer’s knowledge that adjustments will
affect auditory deafness but Meniere’s Disease, inflammation of the
semicircular canals, has been cured repeatedly by adjustments of Atlas
or Axis, by what route I am unable to state.
_Teeth and Gums_: It is probable that the only connection between the
vertebrae and the teeth is an afferent one by way of the trigeminal.
Toothache may be stopped by adjustment of C 3, or C 4, but no evidence
is at hand to show that the condition of the teeth is improved or that
more than a temporary effect can be had. Trophic changes in the gums
may be due to vascular disturbances controlled by the sympathetic.
_Tongue_: The hypoglossal, motor nerve to both the intrinsic and
extrinsic muscles of the tongue, receives direct axons from the loop
between the first and second Cervical nerves. Sympathetic fibres pass
to the blood-vessels and secreting glands of the tongue.
_Tonsils_: Receive fibres from the spheno-palatine ganglion and by
this means are brought under the domination of C 2, 3, and 4. Abundant
clinical evidence in tonsilitis, simple, follicular, and suppurative,
proves this to be the practically, as well as anatomically, correct
nerve connection.
_Salivary Glands_: The parotid receives branches from the great
auricular nerve from the second and third cervical, and from the
sympathetic on the external carotid artery, branches from the superior
cervical ganglion. The submaxillary and sublingual glands are connected
with the submaxillary ganglion, which receives a sympathetic root and
which, with the chorda tympani also carrying fibres derived from the
sympathetic, controls the secretions of these glands.
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