Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
The amount of force used in an adjustment varies so much in different
spines and in different parts of the same spine that it is quite
impossible to state any correct estimate of it in terms of physical
units. In general the Cervicals move with least resistance, then the
Dorsals, then the Lumbars, and finally the Sacrum and Ilia as hardest
of all to displace or replace.
In developing additional force when it is found that the force first
used on any vertebra has been insufficient to move it, remember this
law: _Work equals one-half Mass times the square of the Velocity_.
In other words, doubling the speed of the movement increases its
effectiveness four-fold; tripling it, nine-fold.
The increase in force should never be effected by increasing the
_weight_ or _pressure_ upon the patient’s body, for reasons which
should be clear from a study of previous pages, but always by
increasing the _speed_ of the movement.
Names Used to Describe Movements
The names herein employed to indicate certain movements, each a
well-defined method of procedure for the accomplishment of some special
end, are the names or descriptive terms which seem to be in the most
general use at this time. Few of these movements have arrived suddenly;
most of them are the result of gradual growth and evolution: so with
the terms by which they are known; they have gradually become a part
of the common language of the profession. Usage sanctions them, though
some of them are cumbersome, unwieldy, or entirely inappropriate.
[Illustration:
Fig. 7. Morikubo Move. For correction of a lateral and rotated
Atlas (L. A.). Pisiform contact with anterior transverse.
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SPECIAL TECHNIC
MORIKUBO MOVE
A movement for the correction of a lateral and rotated Atlas, indicated
for use only when the Atlas is recorded as R. A. or L. A. The position
of the patient’s head renders the transverse process inaccessible
unless it be anterior on the side from which adjustment is to be given.
Position of Patient
Place two sections of the bifid bench together so as to secure the
effect of a solid bench with an upward sloping front. Have patient
lying on back with back of head resting firmly on bench, chin slightly
uptilted. Then turn patient’s head so that it faces sidewise and rests
flatly on the side of the least prominent transverse. This exposes
the anterior transverse in front of the tendons of the sterno-mastoid
muscle.
Use of Hands
Stand leaning over head of bench and carefully place the pisiform bone
of adjusting hand upon the tip of the transverse process, being careful
to push aside the sterno-mastoid tendons if they interpose themselves
between the pisiform and the process. The fingers of the adjusting hand
extend downward toward the clavicle and rest lightly, very lightly,
upon the patient’s neck. With the other hand firmly grip the wrist of
the adjusting hand, fitting the pisiform of the upper hand into the
hollow below the styloid process of the radius.
Movement
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