Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
Quarantinable diseases as a class yield readily to adjustment unless
some serum treatment has been administered, when the chances of
recovery are greatly lessened. But such cases must be reported in
conformity with the laws of the state and will probably then be taken
out of the hands of the Chiropractor--unfortunately. The laws of the
various states should be modified to permit Chiropractors, with
precautions required of physicians to safeguard the public health,
to pass quarantine. Every effort should be put forth to secure such
legislation but until it is secured in any state and the Chiropractor’s
work is brought under the supervision of the authorities, the laws must
be respected strictly.
Syphilis and gonorrhoea, communicable diseases, should be recognized
and refused in practice. The former in the primary and secondary stages
(not tertiary) and the latter in all stages is corrective by adjustment
but the liability of transmission of the disease warns against contact
with it unless all precautions known to science be used to avoid
possible transmission.
Congenital anomalies of structure do not yield to Chiropractic and are
best let alone although no harm is likely to arise through any attempt
to correct them by vertebral adjustment.
Relation of Chiropractic to Other Methods
There are certain other methods which present a superficial resemblance
to Chropractic which leads many to believe them closely related. Such
methods are Spondylotherapy, Osteopathy, etc. There is a system called
Napravit or Naprapathy which may be dismissed with the statement that
it is Chiropractic, renamed.
Spondylotherapy, on the other hand, is a system of treating disease
which takes no account of the vertebral subluxation as its primary
cause and seeks to cure disease by stimulating or inhibiting nerve
action through the use of mechanical, thermic, or electrical means.
Its resemblance is due solely to the fact that most of the treatment
is applied to the spine. As well might we say that serum injection for
meningitis is Chiropractic because the serum is introduced by lumbar
puncture into the spinal canal.
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