Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
_Pharynx_: The pharyngeal plexus is a mixture of sensory axons from
the glosso-pharyngeal, motor components from the vagus and probably
sensor from the same nerve, and sympathetic branches from the superior
cervical ganglion. All of these may be influenced by the upper cervical
adjustment.
_Larynx_: According to anatomy the larynx is innervated by the superior
and inferior, or recurrent, branches of the vagus and by sympathetic
branches from the superior cervical ganglion. Clinically the sixth
cervical adjustment cures laryngitis and aphonia. The explanation
probably lies in the fact that the thyroid branches of the middle
cervical ganglion, lying in front of the transverses of the sixth,
communicate within the thyroid gland with the recurrent laryngeal and
with the external laryngeal branch of the superior laryngeal.
_Thyroid Gland_: “The nerves to the thyroid are amyelinic and are
derived from the middle and inferior ganglia of the sympathetic.”
(Gray.) The middle cervical ganglia are situated in front of the
transverse processes of the sixth cervical vertebra. Clinically, the
sixth cervical reaches goitre.
_Muscles of Neck_: The platysma is supplied by the facial nerve;
the sternomastoid by the spinal accessory and cervical plexus; the
infrahyoid region by the first three cervical nerves; the suprahyoid
region by the facial and the ansa cervicalis; the anterior and lateral
vertebral muscles by the cervical nerves from second to seventh
inclusive, but especially the second, third, and fourth. It will be
seen that muscular disturbance in the neck may result from any cervical
subluxation. Torticollis, which usually involves the sternomastoid,
yields to the second cervical most frequently.
_Lymph Nodes of Head and Face_: These lymph nodes are controlled by
the cervical sympathetic. Pathological changes in one or more nodes
requires careful cervical palpation to determine the presence of a
subluxation away from the affected side.
_Muscles of Back_: The trapezius is innervated by the spinal accessory
and by the third and fourth cervical nerves; the latissimus dorsi by
the sixth, seventh, and eighth cervical through the middle or long
subscapular. Occasionally a tender nerve, traceable from the lower
reaches of the latissimus to the cervical region has mislead the
practitioner into imagining a cervical connection over the back with
internal viscera.
The second layer of the back is supplied by the third, fourth, and
fifth cervical nerves. The third layer is innervated by the middle and
lower cervical and upper three thoracic nerves except the serratus
posticus inferior which is supplied by the ninth, tenth, and eleventh
thoracic. The fourth and fifth layer are supplied by the posterior
primary divisions of the spinal nerves and any given section of these
layers may be traced to a vertebra directly above, or cephalad.
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