Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
Reach across patient’s neck with right hand for a right subluxation or
left hand for a left, and find spinous process. Then draw the middle
finger straight around until the palmar surface of the middle finger
just below the second joint fits snugly behind the transverse process.
Place the other hand under the head and with both hands working
together turn the head toward you, chin upraised, and draw the neck
into a greater flexion until it is felt that contact is firm and close.
Movement
The movement is a quick drawing toward the adjuster of the second,
or contact, finger, which has been, as it were, hooked over the
transverse. The transverse is thus drawn sharply forward and the
vertebra rotates around its vertical axis so that the spinous follows,
or tends to follow, the transverse in the same arc of movement.
ROTARY No. 3
Position
Patient sitting erect, both feet evenly on floor and hands not braced.
Stand in front of the patient but to one side or the other as for
Rotary No. 2. Use right hand for adjusting right subluxations and left
hand for lefts.
Contact
As for No. 2, contact is with palmar surface of second finger but
may be shifted to third finger for the lower vertebrae if desired.
The thumb is usually placed on the mandible and aids the opposite
hand, placed on the other side of the head, in turning and otherwise
controlling the head.
Movement
Turn the head away from the adjusting hand until the neck muscles feel
taut as a result of position and not of contraction. The movement then
is given as a sharp jerk of the contact hand forward.
[Illustration: Fig. 14. The Rotary, No. 3.]
ANCHOR MOVE No. 1
Theory
It is held that a vertebra often loses its proper relation with the
vertebra below, and consequently with _all_ the vertebrae, or the
entire column of the spine below, without being disturbed in its
relation to the one, or ones, above; that, in other words, the column
may be divided into two sections by subluxation, the upper section set
askew upon the lower. With this reasoning it would clearly be desirable
to so adjust the spine as to move a given vertebra, and with it all
vertebra above, so to speak, upon the vertebra below. To do this all
vertebrae above the one to which force is applied must needs be firmly
_anchored_ to prevent strain between them.
Such a move has been devised by Bunn for Cervical use and is here
described from the author’s few observations only. Further study may
modify the technic somewhat.
[Illustration: Fig. 15. “Anchor Move,” No. 1. For a P. L. subluxation.]
Position
Patient is placed as for Dorsal and Lumbar adjustments in position
B. Move is applied to rotated, postero-rotary, and antero-rotary
subluxations and face turned toward side from which move is to be made.
Adjuster, after palpation which discovers the vertebra to be moved and
the direction of movement, stands at the head of table facing patient’s
feet.
Contact
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