Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
=Anaemia.=--If primary, yields slowly but surely. Secondary anaemia
depends upon some disease process and its prognosis is that of the
disease which produces it.
=Angina Pectoris.=--A case for careful diagnosis. False angina
recovers with general building of nervous system. True angina,
usually associated with arteriosclerosis, is frequently fatal and
death may occur during any adjustment. If this does not happen most
cases recover, though slowly. Let me repeat, there is great danger in
handling true angina pectoris.
=Anidrosis.=--Usually responds to adjustments for the kidneys.
=Ankylosis.=--Almost any ankylosis, except that in which there is
gross deformity of the bones, would yield to repeated applications
of force along right lines. Only vertebral ankyloses are amenable to
Chiropractic adjustment and those are usually broken in time.
=Anterior Poliomyelitis.=--Chiropractic experience with “infantile
paralysis” has been very extensive and gratifying. During the febrile
stage the disease may be aborted by one or several adjustments with
only slight and transient paralyses resulting. The chronic paralysis
which follows an unadjusted case is curable, but restoration of the
motor function and trophic tone of the paralyzed members is delayed
while the ventral horn cells are regenerated, the axons rebuilt, and
the atrophied muscles redeveloped. Often no apparent results will be
obtained for one or several months, after which gradual improvement
progresses to a complete cure.
=Aphonia.=--Prognosis excellent. No failures reported.
=Apoplexy.=--The occasional case in which a premonitory partial
paralysis precedes real hemorrhage responds remarkably to adjustment
so that with care the hemorrhage may be averted. After hemorrhage the
absorption of the clot is slow and tedious, but about 50 per cent
recover.
=Appendicitis.=--In the early stages of the acute form, and in nearly
all chronic cases, recovery is almost certain under adjustments. Signs
of suppuration indicate immediate operative interference and drainage,
and failure to read the signs may lead to rupture, peritonitis, and
death. Acute cases yield very quickly as a rule.
=Arthritis Deformans.=--In well developed cases some almost complete
cures have been effected in periods varying from two to four years.
Prognosis good as to relief, but poor as to complete recovery.
=Ascites.=--Fair prognosis, depending upon the nature of the portal
obstruction. Cirrhotic ascites does not yield well.
=Asthma.=--Spasmodic bronchial asthma is almost always curable except
in the very aged, but the usual posterior curvature in lower cervicals
and upper dorsals requires time and persistent heavy adjustments for
its correction. The asthmatic paroxysm may be relieved instantaneously,
but will recur at intervals for a long period before the cure is fully
established. The cardiac form of asthma depends upon restoration of
compensation for a leaking valve, and yields by irregularly progressive
diminution.
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