Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
Use the free hand to hold the head with the Hook Support, q. v. Turn
the patient’s chin slightly away from the adjusting hand and drop the
elbow of adjusting arm down until a straight line could pass through
elbow, spinous process, and patient’s chin. It may be well to crouch
and rest the elbow against one knee for solidity. Then allow the head
to drop backward until chin is elevated and further backward flexion
would strain the muscles. You are ready for the movement.
Movement
A quick throwing movement upward and inward, or toward patient’s chin.
As nearly as may be the force should tend to pass along the spinous
process in a direction exactly anterior to the (then) plane of the
vertebra.
NOTE: Either hand may be used with this movement.
[Illustration: Fig. 17. Movement for correction of a lateral Atlas
whose prominent transverse is posterior.]
DOUBLE CONTACT MOVE
Uses
This is indicated for postero-rotary or postero-lateral subluxations.
Its line of force is a bisector of the angle between the straight
anterior and the straight lateral movement.
[Illustration:
Fig. 18. A movement for Atlas when laterally displaced. Contact:
metacarpo-phalangeal joint with end of prominent transverse.
]
Contact
There are two points of contact, both on the first finger, one (first
secured) on the radial side of the second phalanx and the other on the
radial side of the proximal phalanx. The first contact point is placed
against the tip of the spinous, the other behind the transverse process.
Press slightly against the two processes with the finger so as to feel
them plainly.
Completing Position
Hold the head with the Hook Support and turn the face away from the
adjusting hand (right hand for a P. R., left hand for a P. L.). Drop
elbow low and hold it well away from your body so that there appears
an obtuse angle between wrist and forearm with the point of the angle
toward you. Be careful of this point as the tendency is to make an
angle with the point away from you--a weak position.
Drop head backward until firm resistance is felt.
Movement
Force is delivered in an antero-lateral direction as above described,
_entirely_ with adjusting hand.
THE “T. M.” No. 1
Uses
For subluxations listed R or L but not Posterior and upon C 6, C 7, D
1, and D 2 only. This movement applies a lateral force to the spinous
process so as to correct _rotation_ of the vertebra, but I repeat that
it is inappropriate for posterior or postero-lateral subluxations.
Position
Patient lying in position B as for Dorsal adjustment. Find the
subluxation by following the record and perceiving that the count
assumed to be correct permits the subluxations to correspond to those
recorded and that a vertebra in this region is R or L, R. A. or L. A.,
R. S. or L. S., R. I. or L. I. The laterality of the spinous process
determines the next step.
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